Cheviac wrote:

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I have found the strato benches sit higher than a regular bench and strato buckets due to the special mounts required. They are a couple inches skinnier too as they fit in A bodys too.

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 I know this is an older thread, but I'd like to ask, what are the "special mounts required" when mounting these seats?

From what I can see, the power tracks appear to be no different than standard tracks. Are the mounts on the floor different?

Found this on the web,

Here are a few pics of some Stratobench floor plates that were cut out. These are from the passenger side. The front plate mounting surface is raised 3/16" above the original floor. The rear plate mount surface is 5/8" above the floor. Notice the bolt holes... they line up with the outer bolt holes that are in your present floor and were bolted down and then welded to the floor on the front and back edges of the plates. The outer mounting studs are 1-1/16" inside of those bolt holes, center to center. I measure 3-7/16" between the rear studs c/c, and 3-5/16" between the front studs c/c. These studs have large round flat heads under the plates, as seen in one of the pics. The studs are 5/16" size, coarse thread. The front-to-back measurement of the raised mounting pads on the plates are 2-1/2" on the front and 2-3/8" on the rear. 

Makes sense to me now...the long cables for the Strato 6 way power drives are shorter than the Std Impala bench drives. The strato is narrower.