Re: Leather Recaro 8-way Power Seats Install and Question
Well, I can tell you what needs to be done.
Basically, a recaro "universal" power seat slider comes with sliders holes in the wrong place, the slider width a few inches too wide, and the seat belt mounting bracket too close to the seat cushions.
Also, the Crossfire seats have front slider mounting holes that are angled relative to horizontal. These are cut out of box section tubing and welded onto the factory sliders. The power height adjustment arms as well as the fore/aft adjustment splined tube must be cut and rewelded to support the correct slider width. Then high-strength alloy steel (I used 4130 plate) must be cut and boxed to form a new seat belt mounting bracket. Then all exposed steel is primer coated and painted black.
It took me about 20 hours to fix the 3 motors, 24 hours to cut, fabricate, weld, rewire, install the airbag sensor, etc for the first seat, 6 hours to do the other seat. Power wiring takes a few hours.
FYI. It would be much, much faster to install some fixed buckets on manual sliders. It would be even faster to install Crossfire specific seats. I only did this because I have the resources (thank God), but I do not run a job shop.