Corbeau or Recaro seats. Anyone installed them in an E Body.

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Offline pdsbartech

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Corbeau or Recaro seats. Anyone installed them in an E Body.
« on: January 16, 2015 - 01:26:05 PM »
I'm looking at putting Corbeau seats in my 72 Cuda. Has anyone installed them? Was it a pain in the ass, which fit the best, etc?




Offline Mopar Mitch

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Re: Corbeau or Recaro seats. Anyone installed them in an E Body.
« Reply #1 on: January 20, 2015 - 01:05:37 PM »
I recommend adapting your factory glides since the already match the floor boards...    by using ~1/8" thick aluminum x 1"-2" wide plates and spotting the holes as needed, get some specific length attaching nuts/bolts/washers.... that's what i did.. took a while to figure... then realized how simple it was overall.
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Re: Corbeau or Recaro seats. Anyone installed them in an E Body.
« Reply #2 on: January 21, 2015 - 09:14:11 AM »
Corbeau FX1s in my Challenger.  I used their brackets.  Needed to get some hardware and fender washers but bolted right in.  I did the adapter on the original slides with my last seats, it put the seat too close to the steering wheel.  My Corbeaus are at the right height and not bad to get in and out of.
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Re: Corbeau or Recaro seats. Anyone installed them in an E Body.
« Reply #3 on: January 21, 2015 - 06:50:51 PM »
I have Corbeau Sport Seats. Buy their seat adapters and they'll bolt right in.
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Re: Corbeau or Recaro seats. Anyone installed them in an E Body.
« Reply #4 on: January 22, 2015 - 04:15:50 PM »
Mike's white Corbue seats, in his white Challenger, are beautiful!!!  I've seen his interior!  I'm pretty sure he has the GTS-II seats.  Although a little expensive, they are very comfortable, decent side-support and classy!  These seat don't have the common upper shoulder wings which, in my opinion, are in the way whenever you need to to turn yourself and lean back towards the rear seat for something.
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Re: Corbeau or Recaro seats. Anyone installed them in an E Body.
« Reply #5 on: January 22, 2015 - 05:36:52 PM »
I have Corbeau Sport Seats. Buy their seat adapters and they'll bolt right in.

Got any pics?

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Re: Corbeau or Recaro seats. Anyone installed them in an E Body.
« Reply #6 on: January 22, 2015 - 06:25:23 PM »
This is from Mike's web site

Edit: wow that image was huge.  Here it is resized
Edit: I see that the resizing url disappeared, here's the direct url
http://www.mikes73.com/IMG_0200.jpg
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Re: Corbeau or Recaro seats. Anyone installed them in an E Body.
« Reply #7 on: January 22, 2015 - 07:59:22 PM »
Those are nice!!  Are those leather??

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Re: Corbeau or Recaro seats. Anyone installed them in an E Body.
« Reply #8 on: January 28, 2015 - 07:38:28 PM »
Done! Thanks for the input everyone. Bought the seats an adaptor. Now once they come in to get sent off the get upholstered to match the rest of the interior. Can't wait for everything to come together. It's been a long year of restoring. Going custom on everything sure has taken a toll on the pocket book too

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Re: Corbeau or Recaro seats. Anyone installed them in an E Body.
« Reply #9 on: January 29, 2015 - 10:54:35 AM »
Which model Corbue seats did you choose?  Next, you may want to get a 4-5-6 point harness (maybe one for each seat?) if you don't already have it.

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Re: Corbeau or Recaro seats. Anyone installed them in an E Body.
« Reply #10 on: February 03, 2015 - 05:49:50 PM »
Ended up with the CR1 seats. Was decide song with those or the Moab.

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Re: Corbeau or Recaro seats. Anyone installed them in an E Body.
« Reply #11 on: February 09, 2015 - 02:29:45 AM »
I'm curious to see what their seat bracket looks like.  The web site has some stock picture that doesn't look correct for an ebody.

Please take a pic when you get them.

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