Well this past weekend I made the decision to ditch the aftermarket seats and go back to factory. And so far I hate them mainly because their Cloth. Sliding in the seat is much more comfortable than having to scoot into the cloth seat. So atm the cloth is going to stay until I mess around with the aftermarket seats to make them more comfortable. The main problem is the bottom bolsters on the exit side of the car is just way too tall. i’m going to try and modify the seat to reduce that and mount them to the stock rails because they mount to the car so much better than metal plates.
Car seats make nice chairs.
I had to make some repairs on the factory seats
The extra cushion that I added to try and fix the foam. but the wire basket that holds the foam is tearing away.
I added supporting wire.
I added vinyl to try and keep the foam from tearing more
And now to recover the seats.
Maybe I can find some graphite covers for the factory seats instead of the cloth.
This weekend I had a mishaps.
I went down a road that I said I would never go down again in my camaro because I bottomed out the car the last time I came down it. They had fixed the sink in the road. So since I was close, I wanted to stop by a friends house. I had to creep along and dodge all kinds of stuff. I wasn’t successful. I nailed a hole with a super large lip and It pretty much destroyed my shock assembly.
So the work begins.
It turns out that my shock pulled right out of the mount.
It makes it a challenge to get the shock out because It under tension because the shock isn’t holding the spring any more.
The damage:
It damaged the end but the nut came off without destroying it.
I then found the problem. My insulator was trashed. you are supposed to tighten this down with the shock nut. But as you can see, the hole is now larger than the nut.
I will hopefully get it back together tonight. I’ve got 2 replacement agx shocks for the front just in case there was damage beyond repair. So I’ll probably replace them both. I’ll make sure the driver side doesn’t have the same problem. I was lucky and the shock mount was under warranty on that side. The other side is still stock. Having to buy new mounts is expensive. They’re 80 buck each, for rubber. :-\