Modifying seat for bigger guy

I am 6'9" tall and 270 lbs. I drive my maverick how it is but it's uncomfortable. Is there a way to modify the seat to move back further?

It's a 76 stallion, bench seat.

 

Barry will know, he's a tall guy.

 

What movie was that where the guy tears out the front seat and drives from the back seat?

I am only 6'1" and 200 lbs, and sitting in the back seat sounds just about right for me in a maverick...

 

I would get some 1" or 1 1/4" channel about 2.5 or 3 foot long. It could be steel or aluminum, but you want it thick enough that it doesn't flex. Bolt it to the seats with the long side out the front, flush with the original back of the seat. Then bolt the tracks to the channel flush with the sticking out part. The actual length would be decided by you as to how far the seat goes back.

Only other way I know of is to just drill new holes in the floor pan farther back, but then you'd need some kind of spacers to bring the tracks back up so they would sit on the original seat towers.

 

bucket seats will give u more room

 

Police Academy

 

A combo of the early highback buckets on LDO seat track will give you more headroom, but it will only go back so far.

A combo that I stumbled upon that may work great for you is Pinto seat tracks and highback buckets. I am 6'1" and with this set-up, I drove the car with the seat at the second notch from all the way forward. I ran these for too long, until I finally found some Mav seat tracks. No longer have the Pinto tracks.

The tracks will bolt to most Ford bucket seats, 70s through current, but if you start with the existing front outer seat hole, you will be drilling a new hole for the back outer position, roughly an inch forward of what is already there. You will also need to make risers for the inboard positions so that the seat is level (similar to factory Mav seat tracks).

 

You would probably be more comfortable in something with a little bit more headroom. Like a pick up truck.

 

Ya, I sat in a new chrystler 300c and have never say in a car with that much room. But it's not a maverick, so it won't due. So now I have to make my dream car fit me. Thanks everyone for suggestions. I will have to look closer at the seats tomorrow and see what route I'm going to take.

 

My engine is set back about 5" I'm pretty much sittin where the front edge of the back seat would be. Ditch the back seat and put some custome buckets in

 

my seats r out of a ford focus and the r really close to the back seat on the + side no one n the back because theres no room

 

I'm 6'3" with long legs.. and in the Comet I have just enought room... but funny enough in my Coronet which is a bigger car I had to make the bench seat go further back( had the wheel on my belly) so I took the seat out then took square steel stock and through bolted it in the original holes and made new threaded studs 7" aft from the original holes so the whole seat is back 7"... this is what you need to do. Not a hard project. Raises the seat the thickness of the stock but not a problem. painted the stock black before it went in.

 

Sold a buddy a VW Jetta who was uncomfortable with the bucket seat. So, we pulled the seat/track bolts out, moved the seat back to where he was comfortable, I re-drilled the holes, bolted it in and he was good to go.

And, he is 6'6...

The Jetta was relatively easy; not certain how the floor is in the Maverick/Comet though.

 

the holes in the floor for the seat are reinforced.. thats why my way is better.

 

I'm thinking the offset idea is best for me. I want to keep the bench seat. Nothing like driving down the road with my wife sitting in the middle. But I'm afraid of the height loss of thickness of metal, I'm already hitting my head on the roof. Maybe I can get the seat to tilt back further some how?