4x4 Parts Shop, Colorado Springs, CO 80915

[threecol_two]We doubt most of our viewers have heard of Cerullo Performance Seat (www.cerullo.com), but they are a small family owned company that have taken lots of credit for work on everything from prototype sports cars to late model truck and SUV’s. Heck, they even bolt-in seats for the PT Cruiser.

Nate found them while searching for some decent seats and fell in love with their XR Performance Seat. So we ordered up some fabric samples (which they sent for free) and after some considering, Nate settled on “cat-skin Tan” ~ the only thing is that we didn’t just want a solid-color seat, we wanted something a little more extravagant. So with a quick chat to Tony Cerullo, we arranged the order of the XR seat with the XR3 pattern (using tan and black as the color scheme). If you’re wondering why we didn’t just get the XR3 seat simply because we wanted the 4-point harness holes of the XR seat.

After a short wait (1-day ahead of schedule) the seats showed up in some eye-catching boxes. Yes, we said “eye-catching boxes.” If that sounds crazy to you, simply try to take your eyes off the boxes. Sure enough, after about 10 minutes of controlling our urges, we couldn’t help ourselves and had to open them. We’d compare it to having a brand new set of wheels sitting in boxes, you just can’t help but open them. If you don’t, you’ll be catching yourself eyeing the boxes like they were a super model.

Needless to say, opening the boxes didn’t help our eye-catching problem. We think we sat in a hypnotic trance for the better part of an hour. Man these seats are sweet!

Once we came too, we realized that as awesome as these seats are on the floor, they won’t help unless they are installed in the Scout. So Nate was called in for some custom seat brackets. The first part of mounting a seat to the cage is getting the height correct. Sure you can mount them the same height as the stock seats, but each seat is different. Meaning, some have sliders built in, some need sliders (which raise the seat). And, depending on the ‘manufacturer, some seats have thick padding (tall) and some are thin (short), so we never ‘count* all any two seat-to-cage installs being the same (that happens to be why we don’t offer seat-to-cage brackets with our cage kits).

With Nate-in-seat, and seat-in-scout, we were able to measure and build the new seat brackets. In a short time, we were able to start final welding of the entire cage.

With the cage welded up we let it cool, pulled it out and started painting. We get a nice finish with Rustoleum, but we also wanted to give it a textured look, so Bondo’s Paintable Undercoating went down first. Then, with the cage resting in a place were we could easily get to every square inch of it, the paint went on, and the cage went back in.

NICE! Now onto that test drive.

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