Finished my rear seat delete
09-06-2005, 06:34 PM
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Finished my rear seat delete This weekend I made a rear seat delete kit for my camaro.
It originally came with cloth, that I hated. I bought leather Trans Am seats from a local f-body place, but they only had the fronts...I couldn't really find a nice set of rears anywhere for a reasonable price, so I figured I'd just make something else to go back there...it cost less than $20 (much better than the $200 people ask for rear seats!)
I SUCK at carpentry, like big time. So this took me half a day to make, at least. It looks simple but it's actually kind of time consuming to get it to fit just right...I don't like the look of the seperate seat deletes, it has never looked right to me. I wanted one solid piece to cover the seat indents...I made a couple different templates out of insulation foam, then made the final cut on thin plywood. The final cut ended up being wrong of course...so I had to cut another one. It was also a bit difficult making the part that goes over the driveshaft hump, but I overcame. I used a simple jigsaw for my cuts.
Believe it or not, there was some light gray carpet in my attic that I NEVER knew about until a couple days ago. The color didn't match, but it was the right pile (i.e the same consistency as car carpet). I stapled it around the box...I then dyed the carpet to match. Looks a little spotty in the pix because I am under a tree and its leaves are casting shadows.
Keep in mind I made this to save money, not weight. But, it only weighs 8 lbs so it ends up being a bit less than seats & seatbelts anyway.
Ok ok, I'll shut up now, here's the pictures.
Enjoy my pretty T/A seats.
Notice I put the camaro seat track/side panel on the t/a seat so it plugs right in.
And here's my baby.
Oh and here are my pacesetters that I installed last week.
It originally came with cloth, that I hated. I bought leather Trans Am seats from a local f-body place, but they only had the fronts...I couldn't really find a nice set of rears anywhere for a reasonable price, so I figured I'd just make something else to go back there...it cost less than $20 (much better than the $200 people ask for rear seats!)
I SUCK at carpentry, like big time. So this took me half a day to make, at least. It looks simple but it's actually kind of time consuming to get it to fit just right...I don't like the look of the seperate seat deletes, it has never looked right to me. I wanted one solid piece to cover the seat indents...I made a couple different templates out of insulation foam, then made the final cut on thin plywood. The final cut ended up being wrong of course...so I had to cut another one. It was also a bit difficult making the part that goes over the driveshaft hump, but I overcame. I used a simple jigsaw for my cuts.
Believe it or not, there was some light gray carpet in my attic that I NEVER knew about until a couple days ago. The color didn't match, but it was the right pile (i.e the same consistency as car carpet). I stapled it around the box...I then dyed the carpet to match. Looks a little spotty in the pix because I am under a tree and its leaves are casting shadows.
Keep in mind I made this to save money, not weight. But, it only weighs 8 lbs so it ends up being a bit less than seats & seatbelts anyway.
Ok ok, I'll shut up now, here's the pictures.
Enjoy my pretty T/A seats.
Notice I put the camaro seat track/side panel on the t/a seat so it plugs right in.
And here's my baby.
Oh and here are my pacesetters that I installed last week.
09-06-2005, 06:39 PM
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that looks very good, looks like lots of wasted space imo, maybe put a hatch in it bootleger style haha i must say that it dosent stick out or look out of place at all, thats hard to do... very nice
i had cloth originaly also, then i got 02 leather seats, i dont like them, thinking of getting cloth seats again.
i had cloth originaly also, then i got 02 leather seats, i dont like them, thinking of getting cloth seats again.
09-06-2005, 07:07 PM
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awsome job, no how to on the site yet? how much stuff can you put on it? like maybe a 20 pound backpake maybe? oh yeha btw how did you do the intro for the site, still tryin to figure it out,....photoshop/flash??
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09-06-2005, 08:03 PM
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thats almost exactly how i wanna do mine. nice job. can you get some more pics of how you went around the driveshaft? any pics w/out the carpet on? nice job again
09-06-2005, 08:33 PM
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cant the subs are in the back (15's) i want to get rid of the rear seats cuss they usless as hell and everything that i put in the back always ends up braking or gettin crunched, thought that a flat surface would eliminate that. i not wantin to do the rear delete for weight reduction, hell if i wanted to do that i'd have ditched the subs long time ago...
09-06-2005, 09:28 PM
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pretty clean...glue the carpet. I kinda like the big *** empty space i have in the back, lol. My roommate is interested in doing that to his t/a, do you have measurements?
You did an awesome job. 
