Anyone know the weight of the power seats in 88XR7s? November 14, 2007, 01:24:05 AM I know they are heavy, but I am wondering if it is worth it to get something lighter.Do 91 Lx coupe seats bolt in place of my stock electric ones? Quote Selected
Anyone know the weight of the power seats in 88XR7s? Reply #1 – November 14, 2007, 03:23:15 AM No, the floorpans are different between Mustangs and Tbird/Cougar.So are the seat bases...and before you ask, manual seat tracks for BOTH sides of a Tbird/Cougar are getting to be kinda uncommon, lolA rough guess, but I'd say you could save around 30-40 pounds by going to a manual seat base. Those electric suckers are heavy. Quote Selected
Anyone know the weight of the power seats in 88XR7s? Reply #2 – November 14, 2007, 08:49:11 AM The seats will swap out,but not the bases to them. Quote Selected
Anyone know the weight of the power seats in 88XR7s? Reply #3 – November 14, 2007, 09:04:59 AM The XR7 seats aren't much heavier than normal seats. It's the power bases that are heavy. Your best bet would be to try to find a junked base 'Bird or Coug and just get the non-power bases to use with your XR7 seats.I was gonna install power seats into my 'Bird but decided against it the moment I lifted one of those bases. Quote Selected
Anyone know the weight of the power seats in 88XR7s? Reply #4 – November 14, 2007, 11:06:59 AM Quote from: FordTruckFreeek;187488A rough guess, but I'd say you could save around 30-40 pounds by going to a manual seat base. Those electric suckers are heavy.i weight the the difference between electric and manual track when i swaped to newer seat, i cant rmember excactly but the difference is less then you think, about 15lbs each iirc Quote Selected
Anyone know the weight of the power seats in 88XR7s? Reply #5 – November 14, 2007, 11:31:33 AM Quote from: Thunder Chicken;187507The XR7 seats aren't much heavier than normal seats. It's the power bases that are heavy. Your best bet would be to try to find a junked base 'Bird or Coug and just get the non-power bases to use with your XR7 seats.I was gonna install power seats into my 'Bird but decided against it the moment I lifted one of those bases.I don't know if I do infact want to keep my XR7 seats, I just aren't to happy with the way they feel:mad: Quote Selected
Anyone know the weight of the power seats in 88XR7s? Reply #6 – November 14, 2007, 11:40:48 AM Quote from: Thunder Chicken;187507I was gonna install power seats into my 'Bird but decided against it the moment I lifted one of those bases.I swear the bases weigh more than the seats:hick: When I pulled both my front seats out last winter to have them redoneI was amazed at how much the seat track alone weighed. I have one of the *rare* dual power seat cars too........... All the avaliable 88 LX options but a sun roof and block heater will make a T-bird heavy as hell (though not as heavy as my 95 MN-12;) ). Quote Selected
Anyone know the weight of the power seats in 88XR7s? Reply #7 – November 14, 2007, 12:54:44 PM I've got 2 sets of those heavy POS power tracks sitting in the garage. My '83 had dual power seats. The tweaking the seating position option was nice, and if I had a "cruiser" then maybe I wouldn't worry about it.As mentioned, the manual TBird tracks are getting hard to find. I know I have seen a member that adapted some Mustang tracks, but it's not a "bolt-in" deal.It is probably a 30# difference or so. I'm not in the mood to drag a set down from the shelf to weight it though. Quote Selected
Anyone know the weight of the power seats in 88XR7s? Reply #8 – November 14, 2007, 01:24:07 PM I weighed them awhile ago (I think Sleeper did too)I got 35-36# each for the power tracks (87)and 4# each for the manual tracks (83)I still have a set of each here if I need to re-weigh... Quote Selected
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