Lowering power seat?

[Mid_life_crisis]

Has anyone pulled a power seat to see if there is any way to make it sit lower? I'm not the tallest guy in the world (just under 6'2") but I keep wishing the seat was a little lower. Mostly when getting in and when losing sight of traffic lights in the roof line.

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[Nick71692]

been asked a couple times...no one seems to have a fix other than buying a new seat. I swore I once read someone took the seat bracket and turned it around, reinstalled and that lowered about an inch, but for the life of me I cant find that post anywhere again.

 

[Mid_life_crisis]

been asked a couple times...no one seems to have a fix other than buying a new seat. I swore I once read someone took the seat bracket and turned it around, reinstalled and that lowered about an inch, but for the life of me I cant find that post anywhere again.

I'm not doing anything that disables/removes the AC from the seat. I freaking love that option.

 

[Scott Wilson]

Late bump. But man I would love to lower my seat 1 more inch. Im not even tall (5ft 9) and I want to sit lower to keep my knees from hitting the steering wheel column when braking. Right now I can barely get by with maybe a 1/4 inch of room. Must be cause Im all legs

 

[16Kobra]

I would love to lower it so when I have my helmet on, I dont have to lean the seat so far back.

 

[Grintch]

Normally, you can do if you cut up and reweld the stock mount. But it tends to be time consuming, and thus pricey. And aftermarket mounts without the power hardware can almost always give you more lowering.

So unless you are DIYing it, usually the better choice is even lower and lighter aftermarket seats and mounts.

 

[Scott Wilson]

Ill probably just toss in some corbeaus and 2ohm resistors

 

[cking]

check gt350 section I detailed my plan too lower the seat

 

[wildcatgoal]

If you look under the seat, there are stops that prevent the seat from lowering any more. I thought about cutting off those stops and seeing what happened, haha.

 

[Competition Orange]

If you look under the seat, there are stops that prevent the seat from lowering any more. I thought about cutting off those stops and seeing what happened, haha.

Do you have a picture of these stops?

 

[sigintel]

In for lower seat

 

[cking]

I removed my seat if you cut off the two stops you'll get 1/2 " before everything crashes into it's self. Only solution is new seats on a tract seat plate. Then you only get forward & back. Cheapest solution buy some seats from a 2011-14 mustang whatever style you like. I'm ordering some manual seat harnesses fairly cheap then wiring the airbag, seat position, seatbelt latch, passenger weigh sensor so they plug into the body harness. Still have deal the loss of heat and cool circuit. Hopefully Forscan will let me change the as-built settings.

 

[wildcatgoal]

I vote you do a write up!

 

[cking]

Just took my first drive with new seat in. Only a temporary mount. I took the sparco race seat mount and a 2011 Mustang GT seat stripped the factory manual tracks off and made an adapter. Just used a 2X4 bolted to seat and bolted to sparco. Now I have tons of head room good 3 inches and that with seat back in nice upright position. Now I'll order some pieces of Alum flat stock and make my adapters and put the universal seat track slider in. Which will give me 6 inches for/aft travel. Found the diagnostic section on the airbags and a value of 1.6 to 3.4 ohms is OK. So 2.2 resistors should work. Order wiring harness for 2017 manual seats $50 bucks for both sides. Then I'll hook the seat belt latch, seat position sensor and the one airbag that is in the seat and bypass the second which should make the airbag light go out. Next will be the door panels. Bought some replacement door panels and took the center section out. Going to remove the whole armrest and power window panel shelf. Flush mount the power window switch higher on the door, and mount a small armrest in rear that is actually the right height. As it gets done I'll post some pics.

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