I am inquiring about the seat mounting brackets used in the BRE T/A to mount the front Cerullo seats. I have a set of seats nearly identical to the Cerullo seats in my 78. I used aftermarket mounting brackets and the seats are too high. In the pictures I have seen and on DIY you stated the seats were mounted with factory brackets. The brackets don't appear to be 2nd Gen brackets. Can you please tell me what what year and model those brackets are from. Also, what modifications did you have to do to mount the seats to the brackets and the brackets to the floor, if any. Thanks for any info.

JCLawnman,

JCLawnman,

The brackets I used are exactly as you describe. I have done exactly as you did in order to have the seats as close to the floor as possible. Our brackets are most probably the same ones....numbers 178 & 179. They are tab brackets from an aftermarket manufacturer. I wanted flat brackets but they couldn't custom make those anymore (at the time I placed the order).  But, beacuse of the style of the brackets (being tab brackets) they mount the seats too high. It's not that I can't drive the car, it's just that my head almost touches the roof. Being able to use factory (GM) style seat brackets would eliminate the base bracket, the tab bracket and seat sliders which would position the seats as close to floor as possible. I am going to try to modify the original seat brackets to work with the aftermarket seats. By the way, my seats are black cloth perimeter with camel tan cloth inserts. They also have have the Firebird emblem under the harness slots and "Trans Am" above the slots. They are fantastic looking seats if I do say so myself. 

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