I'm a couple of whiskeys in and I can see through this.
I'm a couple of whiskeys in and I can see through this.
Stampie said:I'm a couple of whiskeys in and I can see through this.
It took me a couple of reverse image searches to be sure.
The writing style seems familiar.
If you are planning on taking it on the track, I don't think you'll be done when you bolt in your new parts. I think you'll have significant understeer, as you're going to have changed your setup quite a bit after installing the big front bar and randomly specified front springs. But if you're mostly interested in slamming, that doesn't matter.
I would love to learn more about how the factory front seats mount in a Transit Connect. I don't have one to look at.
This project has been on the back burner for quite a while, just hasn't become pressing enough to make a special trip to the junkyard, or to bother with trying to buy used seats of Craigslist.
If any GRMers with a Transit Connect are willing to take some photos of the seat base, that would be most awesome and much appreciated. If anyone is willing to take some photos and some measurements, it would be even more awesome, and I will be indebted to you. 
How can you say you've turned it into a well handling sports car when you haven't actually installed the parts that will change the handling balance? You say certain tires made it "slide into corners", which I read as "this thing understeered even before we put the big front sway bar on and then changed out the springs to unknown spring rates and then installed new shocks".
Welcome back, LostInTransit.
Wow, an entire 4th page.
Timely. My company provided GMC van w/ 6.0L is being replaced with a T-Connect. Certainly some cargo compromises but the 13 mpg of the GMC will not be missed over the typical 35k miles per year.
New one should be here in a few weeks.
I'm not part of the acquisition but I think it will be a new van.
What kind of mpg should be expected in a heavy loaded TC?
In reply to Keith Tanner :
This is no doubt one of the strangest things that keeps popping back up. At least you know what the spammers are trying to accomplish, hard to tell what LIT is trying to do.
Let's bring this one back to the fore in preparation for the upcoming apocalypse.
SlammedStanceSpeed said:ae86andkp61 Not sure what you're looking for, but if your needing to adjust the way the seats have been mounted to the floor, several TC forums show memebrs either lifting the seats off the floor using plumbing hardware of angle iron..
Thanks for the reply. Basically I'm looking for information on what would be needed to install a completely different seat in the vehicle. Can the seat be unbolted from the slides, leaving the factory seat base and slides in the van? If so, what does the top mounting interface to the slides look like, and what are the dimensions of the mounting points on the top of the slides?
If the seat/slides/base are all one riveted/peened/welded assembly, what does the bottom mounting interface to the floor look like, and what are the dimensions of the mounting points on the floor?
It looks like the "feet" of the stock seat frame all bolt to flat spots on the floor (i.e. no slopes/funny angles,) and if my eBay used parts image searches are at all accurate, it looks like they *might* all be in one plane at the same height. If so, it simplifies fabricating something quite a bit, but looking at a photo online is no substitute for putting an eye on the part in person, or better yet, putting a measuring tool on it.
The end goal is to have a rough ballpark idea of what approximate form and ballpark dimensions would be needed for an aftermarket seat mounting bracket. I'm talking back-of-a-napkin type stuff, not expecting to produce a working prototype that would bolt in first try.
You wrote, " ...since the last filter cleaning..."
By cleaning, do you mean that you re-oiled the KN filter? If yes, too much oil has fouled the sensor.
That exact thing was my experience once after having re-oiled a KN filter.
So if you track a Transit Connect, do you tow it with a full sized Transit? LOL....
You guys can see who this SlammedStanceSpeed is right ? Or does it get LostInTransit ?
In reply to Cousin_Eddie (Forum Supporter) :
Oh, we know.
Cousin_Eddie (Forum Supporter) said:You guys can see who this SlammedStanceSpeed is right ? Or does it get LostInTransit ?
I suppose that explains all the missing comments. Thought I was losing it for a second.
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