How To Vader E36 Seat Swap To E30

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How to: Vader -E36 Seat swap

Here is how I did my swap.

First off to put the wider e36 seat in you have to modify the lower seat belt rod. If not, it causes the seat to rub on the center console. I cut 6.25
inches out of rods center section and welded them back together, so that I could get full seat travel. Then I re-drilled holes for the lower bolt and
made up a plate with a nut welded to it to distribute the load in case of an accident. (The nut is a 11mm x 1.25 pitch, I looked everywhere trying to
find one, then it turns out it is exactly the same as a 7/16-fine thread)

Buy the way all the plate I used was 1/8 thick, would not use anything thinner.
Now for the seat adapter plates. I welded a 1.25 inch bolt to the bottom of the plate (not required but makes install much easier). In my drawings
note the hole for the original bolt location. The drawings are for the drivers side for the passengers side you just need to flip the rear plates over
because they are the mirror image.

Picture of drivers plates:

Drawing of drivers plates, note that I rounded the corners of the plates so that they did not dig into the carpet and also the rear plate near the
console is very rounded so the the rear passenger doesn't jab their foot on the plate edge. The front door side plate is rounded to clearance the
molded shape in the carpet. (all measurements in mm)

Drawings:
Here is a shot of the passenger plates installed, I put a few washers under the plates on the original mounting holes to compensate for the bolt head
on the back of the plate so that they sat flush.

You can see with the seat installed the outer slider is almost touching the inner rocker and the seat on the console side does not rub.
And one last shot of seat installed.

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