seats , steering wheels ?

[olskoolcrownvic89]

can i put mustang buckets in my mgm or will the power bench setup not allow it ? and if i install a grant steering wheel will it eliminate the airbag or can i still have yhe airbag ?

[olskoolcrownvic89]

the seats i want to kno about are summit sportsman seats

[1987cp]

The short answer is yes; how difficult it will be depends on specifics of the seats' construction and what sliders you want to use. Blaze, Bowman85Merc, Duce, and I think Turbo all used some sort of universal slider and did some fabricatory gymnastics to make them fit. It's also not that difficult to make bracket adapters to mount various seats to your stock power sliders, just keep in mind that such adapters tend to add height, which is the main reason I eventually removed the seats I had installed using that method. Aggravatingly, I've discovered that there exist certain manual sliders that make certain seats a bolt-on deal, but the only place I know so far to find them for certain is off of '87 and older Vic cop cars with nonreclining bucket seats ... the seats seem to be rather rare these days, and the brackets are turning out to be incredibly hard to come by separately from the seats.

Why do you care about retaining your airbag? If I had one, I'd be glad to be rid of it.

[91waggin]

can i put mustang buckets in my mgm or will the power bench setup not allow it ? and if i install a grant steering wheel will it eliminate the airbag or can i still have yhe airbag ?

The airbag is integral with the factory steering wheel. AFAIK, every aftermarket steering wheel out there has no airbag that's integral with it, and even if one did, it's unlikely it'd be the right kind of airbag calibrated with the right force for your vehicle. Airbags are pretty application-sensitive.

@1987cp: Airbags save lives. One saved my life, at least. And you get an insurance discount.

[olskoolcrownvic89]

really i could care less about the airbag , i think i have a solution to the seat problem tho

[1987cp]

@1987cp: Airbags save lives. One saved my life, at least. And you get an insurance discount.

Meh, if you say so.

Insurance discounts are retarded. Circa 1990 GMs with the seatbelt mounted to the door get a "automatic seatbelt" discount, despite the fact that it's all but impossible to exit the vehicle with the seatbelt still fastened. I know, because I had one, and yes, I unbuckled my seatbelt every single time I got out of the car.

Besides, if I were ever in a wreck and a big watzit blew out of the dash and bashed my glasses into my face, I think I'd be more than a little annoyed. Instead of just having to search for my glasses for a minute or two, I'd be at the hospital having them extracted from my face, possibly with one or more lacerated corneas. No thanks!

really i could care less about the airbag , i think i have a solution to the seat problem tho

Be interesting to see what you've got! Post pics!

[olskoolcrownvic89]

i was at work today and clearin the yard out and noticed an old airboat seat mount , they mount in a variety of ways , but this one was mounted similar to a dragster . i plan to do the same mount out of thinner metal that will lay on top of the existing sliders . i should be able to mount the summit seats and not really change the height and still have use of the power seats .........hopefully , ill try it on the test vic first

[1987cp]

Sounds neat, hope it works out. I had been under the impression that most non-Panther seats tend to be taller in the cushion that a stock split bench, but it'd be neat if I'm wrong.

[olskoolcrownvic89]

that is true most bench seats of any kind tend to be lowback seats < ie shorter overall > while most buckets and aftermarket seats tend to be highback < ie taller overall>

[1987cp]

I didn't mean taller or shorter to the top of the seatback, I just meant the bottom part is taller so that you sit higher with respect to the slider.

[olskoolcrownvic89]

o ok my bad , from what ive looked at that appears to be true