New seats in an old Car

[Dodgegrl97]

I'm in the first stages of rebuilding a 71 Cuda. There is no interior what so ever in the car, it's all been striped! I have bad back issues. So my question is has anyone put newer (more supportive) seats in an old car? Possibly new challenger seats that has the lumbar support or something of that nature. I want to be able to drive and enjoy the car as much as possible with as little pain as possible. Any ideas?

[the_engineers]

Confederate Cuda has BMW 6 series seats in his. Might be worth looking into...

[inot2old]

I thought someone on here put seats from a '90's Chrysler Sebring in an e-body.

[Chryco Psycho]

definatly can be done , figure out what seats fit you best & some fabrication will be needed to get the seats to fit the E body seat rails or fit the rails onth eseats to the floor so the seats sit level

[DMZ73]

I've seen Sparco's in em.
I f you think about it, its an easy solution. New covers are nearly 500.
New Sparco seats are around 300. I think the sparcos are really supportive, and comfortable.
Also someone put some new SRT seats in theirs- Can't remember who.

Dan

[cudazappa]

I put some generic APC seats in my challenger.  Much better support and more comfortable, too.  The only thing is now I need a smaller diameter steering wheel (like a tuff wheel, or a grant).  I just made an adapter bracket to fit it, I used my stock seat tracks.

[06Daytona]

I had a set of 1993 Probe seats in a Mailbu for quite a while. The drivers seat was power with lumbar support.

[dutch]

bmw e36 vert. will take care of your seatbelts too

[Dodgegrl97]

thanks for the responses from everyone! it seems like there is a lot of different options to go with. Hopefully I'll pick something up at the mopar nats. come Aug. as they seem to always have pretty good deals there plus free shipping. Got to save as much as possible to get my fishy out on the street. (and showing these mustangs who's boss)

[ericindc]

I recommend getting seats from an old VW golf or GTI.  Get them recovered and they should be great. Its a smaller car with slightly sporty seats so it shouldnt look too strange.

['Cuda Hunter]

Someone on this forum put 98-02 Trans Am seats into their cuda.  Can't remember who but it looked slick.  All power options of course.

[MoparCar]

I bought these Challenger SRT-8 seats new from a motorsports company building a couple of Challenger race cars. They were selling some of the parts. The drivers is full power, both have heat/lumbar, etc. They seem like they will fit well. I haven't been able to trial fit them because I still have support crossbars welded in my door openings while the car is on the rotisserie and while I'm doing some major sheet metal replacement. The slides are actually flat on both sides, but the passenger side has adapters bolted for a curved area in the floor. All I'll need to do is unbolt the curved adapter. The back seats may fit but will need some mods to them since I've mini-tubbed the rear 2" per side for some 335 tires.

Wes