[Sporqster]

So after about 6 months on not touching the GT, I finally get back to working on the car that will become my life's work. I've got these aluminum circle-track style seats that I want to bolt up to the cage I've got in my GT. The seat that fits me exactly (I've got a fairly narrow butt - I forget the seat size, but I wear 32" pants loosely) I put over on the driver's side, flush up against the driveshaft tunnel parallel with the ribs in the floorboard (so I know it's facing exactly forward(?)), and leaving some 3-4" of clearance on the left side to the door bar. Now I would like to accomodate passengers with healthier posteriors than I have, so I've got a 17" Aluminum seat on the passenger side... I think that's about 2 inches wider...

BLAH BLAH BLAH
CUT TO THE CHASE

1) the passenger side of the GT is seemingly significantly more narrow than the driver's side!

2) the floorboards are not parallel to the ground- the both slope from outboard up the the shaft tunnel, about ~.5"... so if you place seats flush to the floor, they appear to be leaning away from one another!

I can mount these things however I need to to fix this, but is this by design, or is my Opel 'wappiejawed' as they say down here in jawja?

 

[BQS4]

HEY!!!, we don't say "wappiejaw", we say "wonkiejaw" LOL

 

[baz]

you will also find that your feet point out and your arms point in at the same time i think the seats were designed on a friday afternoon and the folks were in a hurry to get to the pub so they just dropped it in and went with where it landed
all gt drivers are recognisable by the slight twist they get after a few weeks

 

[OrangPeEL]

GT floor not level

When fitting non-OEM seats in my '73 last summer, I recall...

1) the passenger side of the GT is seemingly significantly more narrow than the driver's side!

Not so much towards the rear; but from front of e-brake lever forward - increasingly YES! (seat LF corner/edge of GT psngr seat bottom is shaped different than drvr side to allow for forward slide adjustment).

2) the floorboards are not parallel to the ground- the both slope from outboard up the the shaft tunnel, about ~.5"... so if you place seats flush to the floor, they appear to be leaning away from one another!

The floorboards definitely slope down/outwards (toward drain plugs). Seat mounting braces follow slope more slightly… tipping seats outward… with angle looking even more severe at seatbacks and side pillars!

I’ll bet your floor is fine… shim away! HTH
-Dan

 

[cbruce01]

Now that you mention it...

Now that you mention it, I have noticed that in mine, too. My '69 seems to have that condition. I'm currently trying to fix a little rust in the driver's side floorboard under the seat, and I noticed that the 2 sides weren't exactly parallel. Hmm... go figure!

By the way... I see you are in Evansville, right on! Good to see other local Opel owners! I'm in Newburgh.

email: chad"at"brucestudio.com

 

[oldopelguy]

not just GT's

You guys should get a good look at a Kadett steering wheel sometime, the left hand is about 7" from the dash and the right is almost 10", and the dash is square to the seats. It only bothers me if I dwell on it.....

 

[Sporqster]

Now that you mention it, I have noticed that in mine, too. My '69 seems to have that condition. I'm currently trying to fix a little rust in the driver's side floorboard under the seat, and I noticed that the 2 sides weren't exactly parallel. Hmm... go figure!

By the way... I see you are in Evansville, right on! Good to see other local Opel owners! I'm in Newburgh.

email: chad"at"brucestudio.com

Actually I'm an ex-Evansvillager, never updated my profile. I'm in Savannah, GA now!

Hey tell Dennis Gage hi for me next time and let him know I haven't given up yet!