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My FRPP Recaro's just came in...
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<blockquote data-quote="Tob" data-source="post: 13874013" data-attributes="member: 83412"><p>Simultaneously stripping the original '09 GT500 seat down as I was doing the Recaro, I made it to this point with each respective seat base and bladder. Recaro is on left (note the rivet locations and how each pair is different on the front of each seat base).</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]544496[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]544497[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>Recaro bladder harness in place.</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]544498[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>2009 GT500 bladder harness in place.</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]544499[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>Just unplug each bladder and remove.</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]544500[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>Recaro bladder harness on right.</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]544501[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>Aside from their respective harness "pigtail" the bladder assemblies are very similar.</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]544502[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>If you choose not to cut and reweld the thigh bolster brackets, you obviously have to swap bases. Along with the base swap you have to swap the forward mounted sensor/bracket (the one that I referred to earlier that was riveted in two places).</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]544503[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>So after drilling out the rivets, I swapped brackets/sensors and used stainless screws/nuts.</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]544504[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]544505[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>Interesting sticker on each bladder sensor bracket. Note the differing numbers next to the word "effort." A reflection of fat assed America?</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]544506[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]544507[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>My 2009 bladder in place on the Recaro seat base.</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]544508[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>You can now slip the respective foam bottom into place.</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]544509[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>You should now be at easy street. Everything pretty much goes back on the way you took it off.</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]544510[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]544511[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>A tip to ease assembly...install the handle clip as shown in the following photo. </p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]544512[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>If you do this, all you have to do is to carefully seat the handle on its shaft and then push the clip on (with a flat blade screwdriver, etc) and into place. Otherwise, you have to try to fit your hands/fingers into an area where they <em>won't</em> fit in order to attach the clip.</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]544513[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>Now, back to the <em>slashed </em> retaining holes in my otherwise perfect leather skins. I ended up punching new holes and using small zip ties to draw the leather back to where it is supposed to be. It worked very well.</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]544514[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]544515[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]544516[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>I then snapped the seat belt bezels into place. They lock the leather into place pretty good as well.</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]544517[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]544518[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>The plastic sides snap back into place easy enough. A completed hybrid assembly viewed from the bottom.</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]544519[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>There you have it. Recaro seats are done as well as reassembling the original seats.</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]544520[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>Sadly, the "latest" FRPP/Recaro seats will also require the air bags themselves to be swapped when doing an older conversion such as mine.</p><p></p><p><em>Finito!</em></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Tob, post: 13874013, member: 83412"] Simultaneously stripping the original '09 GT500 seat down as I was doing the Recaro, I made it to this point with each respective seat base and bladder. Recaro is on left (note the rivet locations and how each pair is different on the front of each seat base). [ATTACH=full]544496[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]544497[/ATTACH] Recaro bladder harness in place. [ATTACH=full]544498[/ATTACH] 2009 GT500 bladder harness in place. [ATTACH=full]544499[/ATTACH] Just unplug each bladder and remove. [ATTACH=full]544500[/ATTACH] Recaro bladder harness on right. [ATTACH=full]544501[/ATTACH] Aside from their respective harness "pigtail" the bladder assemblies are very similar. [ATTACH=full]544502[/ATTACH] If you choose not to cut and reweld the thigh bolster brackets, you obviously have to swap bases. Along with the base swap you have to swap the forward mounted sensor/bracket (the one that I referred to earlier that was riveted in two places). [ATTACH=full]544503[/ATTACH] So after drilling out the rivets, I swapped brackets/sensors and used stainless screws/nuts. [ATTACH=full]544504[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]544505[/ATTACH] Interesting sticker on each bladder sensor bracket. Note the differing numbers next to the word "effort." A reflection of fat assed America? [ATTACH=full]544506[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]544507[/ATTACH] My 2009 bladder in place on the Recaro seat base. [ATTACH=full]544508[/ATTACH] You can now slip the respective foam bottom into place. [ATTACH=full]544509[/ATTACH] You should now be at easy street. Everything pretty much goes back on the way you took it off. [ATTACH=full]544510[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]544511[/ATTACH] A tip to ease assembly...install the handle clip as shown in the following photo. [ATTACH=full]544512[/ATTACH] If you do this, all you have to do is to carefully seat the handle on its shaft and then push the clip on (with a flat blade screwdriver, etc) and into place. Otherwise, you have to try to fit your hands/fingers into an area where they [I]won't[/I] fit in order to attach the clip. [ATTACH=full]544513[/ATTACH] Now, back to the [I]slashed [/I] retaining holes in my otherwise perfect leather skins. I ended up punching new holes and using small zip ties to draw the leather back to where it is supposed to be. It worked very well. [ATTACH=full]544514[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]544515[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]544516[/ATTACH] I then snapped the seat belt bezels into place. They lock the leather into place pretty good as well. [ATTACH=full]544517[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]544518[/ATTACH] The plastic sides snap back into place easy enough. A completed hybrid assembly viewed from the bottom. [ATTACH=full]544519[/ATTACH] There you have it. Recaro seats are done as well as reassembling the original seats. [ATTACH=full]544520[/ATTACH] Sadly, the "latest" FRPP/Recaro seats will also require the air bags themselves to be swapped when doing an older conversion such as mine. [I]Finito![/I] [/QUOTE]
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