Swapping seats
Swapping seats
With stock seats being extremely worn, their hardware rusting from what I think is years of spilled drinks by previous owner(s), I was looking at something similar to these:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/2-X-F1-S ... enameZWDVW
or
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/MAZDA-MX ... enameZWDVW
and also
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/Carbon-L ... enameZWDVW
and others...
what they all seem to have in common is this 'universal' straight sliding rail (cannot really be attached to mx floor).
Well, I pulled mx passenger side seat today - our rail mounts (brackets?) seem permanently attached to the rails themselves with studs of some kind. I thought the universal sliders worked by reusing our mounts, but I'm guessing I was wrong, at least not for a 93 rs! My workshop manual seat disassembly procedure also shows mounts as one with rails.
Does anyone have experience using these universal rails,
Thanks!
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/2-X-F1-S ... enameZWDVW
or
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/MAZDA-MX ... enameZWDVW
and also
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/Carbon-L ... enameZWDVW
and others...
what they all seem to have in common is this 'universal' straight sliding rail (cannot really be attached to mx floor).
Well, I pulled mx passenger side seat today - our rail mounts (brackets?) seem permanently attached to the rails themselves with studs of some kind. I thought the universal sliders worked by reusing our mounts, but I'm guessing I was wrong, at least not for a 93 rs! My workshop manual seat disassembly procedure also shows mounts as one with rails.
Does anyone have experience using these universal rails,
Thanks!
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I'm doing it right now, about to leave to the shop for a second day of work and they are a b----, yes you would need a grinder and a welder to get those suckers off and on, and i'll tell ya now thats not all you need becuase the rails on aftermarket seats arnt the same as ours, you need to get some steel that can be bent and a drill to make holes through the steel, all kinds of fun stuff. Aftermarket seats are alot of work....
THE easiest way to make this work, if it's possible with your seats is to literally take off the universal rails and weld your mx rails to the new seat...
THE easiest way to make this work, if it's possible with your seats is to literally take off the universal rails and weld your mx rails to the new seat...
http://www.cardomain.com/ride/2385931/4
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They should, most of those seats aren't too wide.
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I modified my stock sliders on one seat all day just to find out that the after market seats sit too high on the stock sliders. What I ended up doing was paying a custom shop $300 to apparently weld the after market sliders to the attachement parts of the stock sliders(~7.5 hours). I think I need to learn how to weld lol.
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or... just buy the brackets for correct fitment of Corbeau or Sparco style seats (seats w/flat bottom) and attach them to the universal type sliders that come with the new seats. Brackets p/n 986(driver side) and p/n 987 (pass side) made for 91-97 Ford Escort fits the MX-3. They are available from a couple of suppliers. I'm ordering from Cardomain, which has the best pricing I've seen. Links provided below:superman_t11 wrote:grind off brackets
http://www.murrayauto.com/store/myProdu ... ryID=18262
http://www.cardomain.com/item/SPA986
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