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Hello everyone, I wanted to share my experience installing the c7 gen. seat into our c6. I want to thank user "Smokeyjr" for sharing his experience with me, and also all other users that shared their conversion and feedback on the forum.
I bought a pair of used c7 gt seats and converted to the competition version, the conversion process is well documented on the forum.
c7 seats fit perfectly into the existing seat bolts of the c6 body, so no worries on that. The tricky part comes in the electronics.
Since I live in a tropical country, I didn't find the need to wire up the seat heaters, and also wanted to retain the factory c7 seat airbags. I did a wiring adapter just to give 12 volts, switch power, and ground to the motors of the seat in the following way:
1. For the telescopic function of the steering to work. I bought an emulator from vetteworks and wired it into my adapter. This will make the function work properly and also clear the driver seat position sensor error that will happen not having the c6 seat. http://www.vetteworksonline.net/cata...roducts_id=233
2. I used the original c6 seat belt anchor pretensioner and bolt it into the c7 frame. I removed the nut from the pretensioner and bolt it in the frame of the c7. (I don't remember the bolt size, but it was a SAE measure and not metric)
1. For this seat I also used the passenger seat position emulator by vettworks: http://www.vetteworksonline.net/cata...roducts_id=171
2. For the seat belt pretensioner was the same process as the driver side. (remove nut and install the pretensioner with a bolt on the c7 frame)
3. I used the passenger seat ocupancy sensor from the c6 seat and installed it into the bottom part of the seat. I drilled some holes on the back part for the green clips to fit. (picture attached).
Other notes:
For the competition version of the seat I didn't had to cut/trim plastic covers or remove the c7 airbags.
I used a gm tech 2 to verify the airbag module and the aribags where communicating as well as the passenger ocupancy sensor.
The driver memory function does not work, but for me it's not really that important.
Overall is the best interior upgrade I have done to the car. The seats hold you very good in track days.
Hopefully my little writeup can help motivate other members that want to retrofit the c7 seats into their c6.
Pictures:
c7 driver seat installed
c7 passenger seat installed
c6 occupancy sensor installed on c7 bottom frame (drilled holes)
still some space between seat and side bottom panel.
seat moved all the way back and still have some space between the back side panel.
I was lucky to find a used body harness from a wrecked c7, so I used the original c7 plugs and wired them into my c6 body harness.
It will also work if the wires from the connector that I listed of the c7 seat plug are tapped into other wiring that can have a c6 seat plug in the other end.
Vetteworks just received 200 connectors for C7 2014 through 2017 seats. All pending orders are shipping throughout this week.
Dan Hagerty
Vetteworks
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I am currently trying to install c7 seats in my c6, are there any pictures to help guide the wiring ? I am not sure what to wire together for them to work , any help would be great , diagram pics or anything. Thank
Originally Posted by chuzo
Hello everyone, I wanted to share my experience installing the c7 gen. seat into our c6. I want to thank user "Smokeyjr" for sharing his experience with me, and also all other users that shared their conversion and feedback on the forum.
I bought a pair of used c7 gt seats and converted to the competition version, the conversion process is well documented on the forum.
c7 seats fit perfectly into the existing seat bolts of the c6 body, so no worries on that. The tricky part comes in the electronics.
Since I live in a tropical country, I didn't find the need to wire up the seat heaters, and also wanted to retain the factory c7 seat airbags. I did a wiring adapter just to give 12 volts, switch power, and ground to the motors of the seat in the following way:
1. For the telescopic function of the steering to work. I bought an emulator from vetteworks and wired it into my adapter. This will make the function work properly and also clear the driver seat position sensor error that will happen not having the c6 seat. http://www.vetteworksonline.net/cata...roducts_id=233
2. I used the original c6 seat belt anchor pretensioner and bolt it into the c7 frame. I removed the nut from the pretensioner and bolt it in the frame of the c7. (I don't remember the bolt size, but it was a SAE measure and not metric)
1. For this seat I also used the passenger seat position emulator by vettworks: http://www.vetteworksonline.net/cata...roducts_id=171
2. For the seat belt pretensioner was the same process as the driver side. (remove nut and install the pretensioner with a bolt on the c7 frame)
3. I used the passenger seat ocupancy sensor from the c6 seat and installed it into the bottom part of the seat. I drilled some holes on the back part for the green clips to fit. (picture attached).
Other notes:
For the competition version of the seat I didn't had to cut/trim plastic covers or remove the c7 airbags.
I used a gm tech 2 to verify the airbag module and the aribags where communicating as well as the passenger ocupancy sensor.
The driver memory function does not work, but for me it's not really that important.
Overall is the best interior upgrade I have done to the car. The seats hold you very good in track days.
Hopefully my little writeup can help motivate other members that want to retrofit the c7 seats into their c6.
Pictures:
c7 driver seat installed
c7 passenger seat installed
c6 occupancy sensor installed on c7 bottom frame (drilled holes)
I am currently trying to install c7 seats
still some space between seat and side bottom panel.
seat moved all the way back and still have some space between the back side panel.
I am currently trying to install c7 seats in my c6, are there any pictures to help guide the wiring ? I am not sure what to wire together for them to work , any help would be great , diagram pics or anything. Thank
Hi I just used what information I could find in the forum. The connecters won't be plug and play but you could buy a set of body connectors from a salvaged c7.
You can also follow my pinout from the c7 seat to the c6 body harness.
I removed mine didnt like how they fit in the car and you sit higher than the factory seats probably two inches or more
. I now have 2013 seats instead much better
This is great I am in the middle of my swap now and am trying to see what others did with the pretensioner. does the nut come out of the C6 in order to fit the C7 bolt? i looked at it for about 10 minutes before i needed the car again and had to put them back together and in.
Originally Posted by chuzo
Hello everyone, I wanted to share my experience installing the c7 gen. seat into our c6. I want to thank user "Smokeyjr" for sharing his experience with me, and also all other users that shared their conversion and feedback on the forum.
I bought a pair of used c7 gt seats and converted to the competition version, the conversion process is well documented on the forum.
c7 seats fit perfectly into the existing seat bolts of the c6 body, so no worries on that. The tricky part comes in the electronics.
Since I live in a tropical country, I didn't find the need to wire up the seat heaters, and also wanted to retain the factory c7 seat airbags. I did a wiring adapter just to give 12 volts, switch power, and ground to the motors of the seat in the following way:
1. For the telescopic function of the steering to work. I bought an emulator from vetteworks and wired it into my adapter. This will make the function work properly and also clear the driver seat position sensor error that will happen not having the c6 seat. http://www.vetteworksonline.net/cata...roducts_id=233
2. I used the original c6 seat belt anchor pretensioner and bolt it into the c7 frame. I removed the nut from the pretensioner and bolt it in the frame of the c7. (I don't remember the bolt size, but it was a SAE measure and not metric)
1. For this seat I also used the passenger seat position emulator by vettworks: http://www.vetteworksonline.net/cata...roducts_id=171
2. For the seat belt pretensioner was the same process as the driver side. (remove nut and install the pretensioner with a bolt on the c7 frame)
3. I used the passenger seat ocupancy sensor from the c6 seat and installed it into the bottom part of the seat. I drilled some holes on the back part for the green clips to fit. (picture attached).
Other notes:
For the competition version of the seat I didn't had to cut/trim plastic covers or remove the c7 airbags.
I used a gm tech 2 to verify the airbag module and the aribags where communicating as well as the passenger ocupancy sensor.
The driver memory function does not work, but for me it's not really that important.
Overall is the best interior upgrade I have done to the car. The seats hold you very good in track days.
Hopefully my little writeup can help motivate other members that want to retrofit the c7 seats into their c6.
Pictures:
c7 driver seat installed
c7 passenger seat installed
c6 occupancy sensor installed on c7 bottom frame (drilled holes)
still some space between seat and side bottom panel.
seat moved all the way back and still have some space between the back side panel.
This is great I am in the middle of my swap now and am trying to see what others did with the pretensioner. does the nut come out of the C6 in order to fit the C7 bolt? i looked at it for about 10 minutes before i needed the car again and had to put them back together and in.
It does come out and I had to buy new bolts to fit the C6 pretensioners, but I don't remember the size/thread.
I also remember I had to drill the hole a bit bigger.
It does come out and I had to buy new bolts to fit the C6 pretensioners, but I don't remember the size/thread.
I also remember I had to drill the hole a bit bigger.
thanks this helps a ton... i picked up the new bolts just took the C7 bolt down to the local bolt and nut store and they gave them to me as "samples". forgot to ask the size though... i will post pics when I'm done
04-02-2019, 07:10 PM
c7 Competition Seat Retrofit
