Lowering And Adapting (Mann Scheel) Seats Using Oem Sliders

[felix_666]

This is how I went about installing my Scheel seats. I fabricated a bracket to re-align the holes - basing the design on a fellow 02er. Then I cut the existing seat rail that was raising the height of the seats. Made some 25mm blocks, taped M6 threads on two faces. Installed the brackets, rails and the complete assembly in the car. Pictures tell a thousand words...

 

Instructions are bellow the pictures...

 

chop chop

 

 

Drill holes in the remaining tabs

 

Create cubes (mild steel) and tape holes. I offset the holes. Cubes are 25mm x 25mm 25mm, these are how you determine your where to drill in to the 'remaining tabs' in the previous step. I don't think you can go much smaller than 25mm as there wont be enough space to tighten them up - space for a tool!

 

Fabricate the adapter. I used CAD. You will need to measure EACH seat as you will find they change shape over 40 years - or just slot your holes, but do try to measure once and cut twice...... no wait, measure twice and cut once, yeah thats it.

 

Close up of the cube/block attaching to the the tabs which attach to the adapter brackets - crappy M6 hardware just for show. I replaced all those with socket button head high tensile M6 hardware.

 

Getting the idea...?

 

Attaching the sliding mechanisms.

 

profile shot - this should explain why you couldn't make your blocks/cubes any shorter than 25mm

 

 

 

 

 

 

I am 6' and previously my head was touching the roof, now I am a lot lower, well clear of the roof by a few inches.

 

Now all I need to do is work out how to fix the chrome tape on the door cards and the interior is finished.

 

Cheers

[eurotrash]

Your seats must be a modern Scheel offering.  I haven't seen, nor have I dealt with a seat with a mounting system that had to be chopped off.  Do you know when your seats were produced? 

 

Its good to see someone adapting a modern seat in the spirit of my Scheel adapter design.  I hated the ride height using the Scheel sliders...

 

http://www.bmw2002faq.com/topic/145435-scheel-low-rise-seat-adapters/

[felix_666]

Not sure what you mean by modern, but some time in the 70's. They came from a ford escort mk2 which used the same scheel seats that BMW offered, or so I like to think anyhow.