Daze's Ph1.5 (Ph2 converted) DTurbo

[Dazecoop]

This is perhaps a ridiculous amount of work & photos that I’m about to post, but this is what me & a mate of mine have been doing for almost 2 days straight!  Earlier in the week I bought myself a pair of Recaro reclining seats in the idea to put them in the Peugeot.



I wanted to keep them on a slider, so a custom seat rail was in order. James, a mate of mine, who is a welder & fabricator, also has a 306, so it was easier just to use his car in his garage (ignore the disgusting wheels, eww!)



We got started mostly on the centre-console side of the drivers rail. There’s a huge mechanism attached to the seat rail which we believe remembers the position of the rail when you tilt/slide the seat forward to get people in the back. We don’t need that, and I want to sit lower, so that was removed



Next up was the “remembering position” runner, which had a separate rail. This wasn’t needed either



The console-side rail was now looking a lot slimmer, getting there



Next, James made a pair of horizontal support bars to brace each rail using some 20x20x2mm box section, leaving 1 end off in order to slide this over the console-side runner



After playing with the seat position, we soon found the spring lever & mech to actually make the rail slide was in the way. After much discussion, we decided to cut it off



But then re-locate the spring hole, re-bend the spring, to ensure the lever & spring was flush with the top of the rail



Next issue was the lever under the seat to operate the sliding was going to foul on the support bars. Some notching was required



Done!



James then set to work with his TIG setup and tac-welded the seat base together using the Recaro seat as a frame



Then onto the bench for final welding



Done!



Fitted back to the seat, perfect



This is how the seat base fits over the Peugeot rails, snug



To mount to the offside runner, things were a little more tricky. The offside runner sits a lot lower & vertical to the car body, so some more bar, angled very accurately, was needed to step-down to meet it

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Making faces while cutting!



Tac-welded up, making sure fitment is correct before final welding



And then done, pose for the camera mate!



Then, working in the car itself, tac-welding the seat base to the rails themselves



Once done, removed from car and back to the bench for final welding



... To be continued! ...