Driver Seat Motor removal

dazwelding

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I cannot imagine I am the first one looking to remove the electric motor from the driver seat to save weight in my 03 Cobra, does anyone has any comments? Do I need to locate a factory GT manual seat bracket and swap it out? I searched around a bit, and all I find is results on how to repair or replace the motor, vs remove it and replace with a manual bracket.
I will be taking the car to be corner balanced, and I would like to get the electric motor out of the equation until the next stage when I fab the cage and race seats.
 

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What you need is a manual slider assembly from either a GT or V6 car. You can't simply remove the motor from what I can tell. I redid my seats with TMI covers and foam not all that long ago and can tell you all the frames are the same and all the manual sliders are the same with the exception of the later 03 cars (all of them) until the end of the new edge run. Ford started bolting the seat belt buckle to the tunnel instead of the seat frame. No big deal if yours is bolted to the tunnel, you just don't bolt the buckle up to the slider assembly and you could even lop that part off if you want. It is literally 4 bolts in the floor and 4 bolts holding the slider onto the seat bottom.
 

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What you need is a manual slider assembly from either a GT or V6 car. You can't simply remove the motor from what I can tell. I redid my seats with TMI covers and foam not all that long ago and can tell you all the frames are the same and all the manual sliders are the same with the exception of the later 03 cars (all of them) until the end of the new edge run. Ford started bolting the seat belt buckle to the tunnel instead of the seat frame. No big deal if yours is bolted to the tunnel, you just don't bolt the buckle up to the slider assembly and you could even lop that part off if you want. It is literally 4 bolts in the floor and 4 bolts holding the slider onto the seat bottom.

Awesome, thank you for the info!!
 

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What you need is a manual slider assembly from either a GT or V6 car. You can't simply remove the motor from what I can tell. I redid my seats with TMI covers and foam not all that long ago and can tell you all the frames are the same and all the manual sliders are the same with the exception of the later 03 cars (all of them) until the end of the new edge run. Ford started bolting the seat belt buckle to the tunnel instead of the seat frame. No big deal if yours is bolted to the tunnel, you just don't bolt the buckle up to the slider assembly and you could even lop that part off if you want. It is literally 4 bolts in the floor and 4 bolts holding the slider onto the seat bottom.

The 99-01 had the seat buckle connected to the seat bracket.
Prior to that they were bolted to the tunnel.

Did the terminator got back to bolting them to the tunnel again?
Just wondering.

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I switched to 98 seat brackets because they are slightly lower and had my buckles bolted to the tunnel...I pulled some buckles from a contour that matched my cobra belts.
 

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The 99-01 had the seat buckle connected to the seat bracket.
Prior to that they were bolted to the tunnel.

Did the terminator got back to bolting them to the tunnel again?
Just wondering.

888888888888888888
I switched to 98 seat brackets because they are slightly lower and had my buckles bolted to the tunnel...I pulled some buckles from a contour that matched my cobra belts.

So full disclosure here I was simply repeating information I had found on the net. I had no idea the seat belt buckle was connected to the tunnel on earlier cars. I thought it was the other way around. I can tell you my 03 GT has the buckle connected to the seat bracket.

Now I am also not sure where I found the information but I believe it was on TMI's site. I came across it when I was trying to figure out how to add a power drivers side seat to the passenger side for my wife.
 

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