Anyone know what a stock seat without rails weighs?
2001 Dodge Dakota Sport 4.7L 75shot: 13.140 @ 102.990 MPH
2001 Dodge Dakota Sport 4.7L NA: 13.782 @ 98.630 MPH
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Those seats are sweet! how much did that end up costing you? I used some flat bar and angle iron to adapt the srt4 seat rails on the viper seat to the stock mounting holes on my truck
2002 Flame Red RC R/T
272 RWHP 315 ft/lb TQ
218/226 Comp Cam, Stage 1 Ported EQ Heads, PRW 1.6 Roller Rockers, PIE Custom Tune, Full spintech exhaust with 3" side exit, 52mm Holley, Ported Kegger, Viper E-Fan, Powerdemon Trans, Hotchkis Springs, Leafs and Sway Bars, R/T 20's, Gen 3 viper seats, Custom "Rejected" State Inspection Sticker
Plenty More to come
2001 Dodge Dakota Sport 4.7L 75shot: 13.140 @ 102.990 MPH
2001 Dodge Dakota Sport 4.7L NA: 13.782 @ 98.630 MPH
Dyno video
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Picked up manual rails from a 99 Durango for 10 bucks. They need some modifications to make them work but there were no dakotas at the yard. What I've done is removed the front and rear brackets that have the holes for the bolts and replaced them with my stock ones. My stock ones are lower profile and the rears are offset. I'll weld them onto the manual rails and then make adaptors so the new seats can bolt on.
Making a little progress. I'm making the simplest adaptors possible at this point. I tend to like the front of my seats high for knee support so I'm not sure if I'll be happy mounting them directly to the rails. If not I'll throw them on the passenger side and make something new. I also don't care to only have the nut sitting on top of the rails so I may make a spacer with a larger foot print that goes around the nut. Right now I'm also using the nut as a spacer because the seat bolts hit the rails. I'm using manual Dakota rails that I finally found.
If I have to angle the seat then I think I'll drill and tap round stock. The I'll machine one end flat and the other at an angle. The angle side will be welded to the plate that bolts to the seat. The flat side will sit on the rails and the 5/16 bolts will thread into it. The seat bolts being close to the rails make things really difficult.
Got the seats back today. They tried telling me that they threads passed safety inspection and they would run a tap through it again. That would have only made it worse. I demanded a new seat. Got the drive seat in today. The mounting system is nice and firm but the front of the seat needs to be angled up. I really wish the steering wheel extended out further.
Nice work, i plan on doing something similar to my truck next winter, this thread will be very helpful. Looks great!
99 R/T
The never ending project
After some more driving I determined that the seat needs to be angled back. I'm going with 5 degrees. Used some 5/8" round stock to make threaded spacers with one side that's cut at 5 degrees. The angle side will be welded to the adaptor plate and replace the welded nuts. I modeled the adaptor plates so the spacers should be correct.
Nice work! Looks really clean.
2001 Dodge Dakota Sport 4.7L 75shot: 13.140 @ 102.990 MPH
2001 Dodge Dakota Sport 4.7L NA: 13.782 @ 98.630 MPH
Dyno video
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Very nice. They look great and the colors match interior nicely.
Mind if I ask how tall / big you are?
Project Maverick. I feel the need, the need for speed
Seats are in my plans but at 6'7" and 327 pounds (and falling, thank you very much) I'm not sure what direction I should go. The side bolsters would probably be too tight for me
But 6'2" isn't your typical shorty. How are these compared to factory seats? More head and leg room?
Project Maverick. I feel the need, the need for speed