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mstennes
10-20-2007, 06:30 PM
I'm just about to pull the trigger on a Lateral Dynamics rear suspension fr my 69 Camaro. My question problem is the rear seat area. Does anyone have pictures of the rear seat area completed with new rear seats?
Thanks,
Mike
Steve1968LS2
10-20-2007, 07:10 PM
No, I decided NOT to run rear seats since I have a cage. I can shoot you pics of the area effected by the third link. It shouldn't be tough to design a rear seat to fit the area.

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James OLC
10-21-2007, 09:47 AM
We thought about running a rear seat and even had a mockup done at one point using third gen rears but with the cage decided not to use it. There's lots of room to do it - the biggest difficulty came with the seat back because the Camaro is so short compared to most 'easy' donors.

To give you an idea (no seat):

http://www.onelapcamaro.com/OLC_pics/rear%20cage.jpg
mstennes
10-21-2007, 11:23 AM
I guess I should add in here, my 69 is a convertable so I need to retain my rear seat. I'm doing a bar that will still allow the use of the rear seat. Still being a vert I need the rear seat of some sort.
Thanks,
Mike
68protouring454
10-21-2007, 11:41 AM
4th gen camaro rear seats should work out of the box,
jake
TT LS2
01-12-2008, 10:45 AM
4th gen camaro rear seats should work out of the box,
jake
Any pics or references showing this installed?
James OLC
01-27-2008, 10:07 AM
Here are a couple of shots that I had kicking around from when we we playing with some junk yard 3rd gen seat bottoms:

http://www.onelapcamaro.com/OLC_pics/rr%20seat%20test%203rd%20gen%201.jpg

http://www.onelapcamaro.com/OLC_pics/rr%20seat%20test%203rd%20gen%202.jpg

They would work fine with very little effort.

Hope that helps.
TT LS2
01-27-2008, 01:07 PM
NIIIIIIICE! It actually looks better than I thought it would!!! Any ideas on the seat backs? Keep us posted and please post the pics of progress.:thumbsup:
68protouring454
01-27-2008, 01:21 PM
thats not the typical lat d rear closeout, looks like he fabbed his own up.
James OLC
01-27-2008, 07:32 PM
Putting a rear seat in with the Lateral Dynamics 3-Link is not that difficult. The bottoms fit with no problem and the upper would be be easy just needing to be trimmed to size.

We custom built the rear closeout starting with the transmission tunnel out of a skylark or something like that. It took a bit of work be we wanted the 3-link install to look factory from underneath and I think it was worth the effort.

No more rear seat updates. We played with this for a day but decided against a rear seat given the full cage.

Good luck,