tedlovesjeeps71 wrote:Any thought to adding a little more length to the back of the cab so the people in the back have a lil room? Kinda like the mega cab(?) Dodge does?
I did mull that over & over & over, then opted to take the standard quad cab route. When I drew up the plans, the additional 3+ inches needed to allow more room just did not look right to me aesthetically. Almost every new truck around here is some type of 4 door- so much so that seeing a standard cab is a bit startling.
The best looking trucks seem to have a set ratio between the length of the front vs rear doors, and that includes additional space in the back to move the rear seats back for leg room. Yeah, that’s all opinion-based and subjective, but these trucks are works of art IMHO.
Having the 01 Chevy LT Z71 quad cab sitting in my shop for so long gave me plenty of opportunity to sit in the back and based upon those internal cab measurements, the Jeep quad cab is roughly 2” longer than that.
Ultimately, though, I think a lot of leg room will be based upon picking the right rear seating options to get the leg room-cab length ratio dialed in. I have more than a few seat mods under my belt, so getting the right set doesn’t scare me.
I plan on using the Chevy’s stock folding rear seat, I’d section 2-4” from the front edge of that seat in order to obtain more leg room, BUT the 3rd row seats in my wife’s Escalade also seem to draw my attention (not that I would take hers!) due to the size.
In my perfect world I would use two stock bench seats from a j truck with factory stitching, but the rear seat would have quite a bit of metal sectioned out of the upper rear back rear of the seat, that would give me about 3-4 inches to push it back against the rear wall more, but those seats are a bit uncomfortable in the long run.