It would have been nice to have power seats but there would have been no way to sit in the car. I did remove them and switched to the 68 tracks. Seats stiller higher than I would like but once I was in useable. The problem is the 98 seats are just a little too wide and jam if you try to adjust. When you said you used 90s fox seats where they for a convirtible?? or will any 90s Fox seats work? If you could dig up the pictures it would be nice
Thanks SRJ

Steve, I put 96 seats in my 68 - I sold the power base units on eBay. I used the 68 tracks, but I had to drill one hole in the 96 seat bottom so the tracks would work. My car is a coupe, so maybe your convertible is configured differently in the seat riser area. The only interference problem I had was that the seat would drag on the carpet. I shimmed the seat up by putting two washers on each track stud to shim the seat track upwards and it all cleared fine. I was able to wire in the electric air pumps in the seats for the lumbar support feature to work. I've had no problems fitting in mine with headroom or side room.

I think the only difference between convertible, and not, is the seatbelt loop.
I trial fitted a 95 vert seat without the power stuff to the tracks in my 65 vert. It dragged on the inner rocker near its rearward position, A fender washer under the rear two bolts fixed that.
I didn't like the fit under the steering wheel, those seats are higher. A smaller wheel will fix that.

Thank you Rudi: You saved a bunch of $ for me. The 98 Cobra seats are perfect and I will see if I can find non power tracks at the local U -PICK -IT The tracks that I removed were power. The pictures will be a great help.thanks again.
srj

Steve, I'm looking at the tracks Rudi used and I'm betting they are very close or even the same as the 89-93 Fox tracks I used in the Heap.  They do require some add-ons as Rudi's pix show.  I made adapters out of 1 1/2 x 1/2 strap steel that do essentially the same thing Rudi did.  My adapters raised the seats 1/2" so his method may save you 1/4" or so. 
Anyway, you may be able to use the Fox tracks which may be easier to find.   Just sayin'.
 

Last edited by Bullet Bob (2/07/2022 3:54 PM)

Glad to see all the mods and advice going on to get modern seats.

Just a word of caution that doesn’t always get considered.  Seats are an engineered safety device, designed to provide a certain degree of safety restraint in the event of a collision. Just be sure whatever modifications you do do will have a good chance of surviving a crash.
Always consider the failure mode of any mod you do, and try to overdesign what you think “will hold it” to the point where it would survive 5x the forces you think it will ever see.
Bolts threaded into thin metal will pull loose.
Thin metal pieces will break.
The more surface area that can be applied to any fastener will improve that fastener’s ability to hang tight in a collision.

Your life may depend on it. Most of the stuff I have seen posted appears to be sound. Just keep it in the back of your mind when you modify a seat frame or mount. “How will this mod hold up when it abruptly gets stopped supporting 1,000 pounds of weight?”

I have been watching my 50+ year old seat belts deteriorate for many years.  Maybe I should take my own advice and upgrade them to something more modern.

BILLY WALTON from GEORGIA wrote:

MS wrote:

Glad to see all the mods and advice going on to get modern seats.

Just a word of caution that doesn’t always get considered. Seats are an engineered safety device, designed to provide a certain degree of safety restraint in the event of a collision. Just be sure whatever modifications you do do will have a good chance of surviving a crash.
Always consider the failure mode of any mod you do, and try to overdesign what you think “will hold it” to the point where it would survive 5x the forces you think it will ever see.
Bolts threaded into thin metal will pull loose.
Thin metal pieces will break.
The more surface area that can be applied to any fastener will improve that fastener’s ability to hang tight in a collision.

Your life may depend on it. Most of the stuff I have seen posted appears to be sound. Just keep it in the back of your mind when you modify a seat frame or mount. “How will this mod hold up when it abruptly gets stopped supporting 1,000 pounds of weight?”

I have been watching my 50+ year old seat belts deteriorate for many years. Maybe I should take my own advice and upgrade them to something more modern.

My Fox seats held up they are going in the 65.
 

 
Are those the ones that were”crash tested”?
I’m sure you will  verify their condition.