Racing Seats Installed With Stock Brackets and Silders

[93BlackMX3]

I have managed to fab a way to install racing seats with stock brackets/silders. Total cost to do it was $9 and drilling two holes which doesn't effect structure and you can still put the stock seats back on. When I get the time I will take pics of them installed. I want to repaint the brackets/silder because the paint is coming off and rusting, i might make a tutorial when I take it part for paint, if people are interested.

[wytbishop]

This thread is useless without pics.

[Evo_Spec]

interested!

[Mooneggs]

I'm sure lots of people would be interested in a tutorial of this.

[Mike Wakeham]

I'm interested too,

One thing I hate about racing seats are the brackets that are 'meant' to be used with them sit too high. And in our cars that would be a nightmare!

[PATDIESEL]

just a FYI- the Protoge has the same floorpan and thus if you NEED to you can order the Protoge brackets with the racing seats and it will fit. However, it usually sits a bit high as said before.
+1 interested in How-To

[Jaik]

Is he ever comming back? My front seat is ripped and I don't want to get seat covers. I also want to work on my own but groove not reshaping the PO's.
Pics please.

[Sleeper6]

Well not sure if hes ever coming back but Im planning on redoing the bracket for my sparco seat to get rid of the ugly angle iron later this month(I still use my stock sliders). If you guys want I could try and post the blueprints/pics

[Tollis]

Would love a tutorial on this. Being 6 ft 5inch in our cars is bad enough with stock seats. I bought some sparcos and couldn't fit so I gotta fab something up.

[93BlackMX3]

Sorry Guys I have been busy with exams and projects. I'll be done in a couple of weeks. To get an idea of what I did, I ll write something for now till I have time to do a tutorial with images.

I bought:

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this all I bought to make this work

Step 1: Remove the seats from the car.

Step 2: Flip the seat over and look for the 4 gold bolt holding the seats to the rails. Remove all 4 screws.

Step 3: Take your racing seat and using the bolts supplied with your racing seats, bolt the back two bolts into the racing onto the stock rails.

Step 4: Find where the front holes from racing seats sit above the rails and mark it for drilling.

Step 5: It's up to you if u remove the seat for drilling or not but it makes it easier. Drill the holes and remember to make the holes a little bigger then necessary. I made them more oval so I can align it better later.

Step 6: Here's where the parts come into play. One side of the stock brackets sit lower on one side then the other. Your going to use the long bolts on the lower side and the long nuts as a spacer to level the racing seat. Use the regular bolts the racing seats came with on the other side. Also use the 1 or two spacers that came with the racing seats to level out the higher side. Use your judgement and your eye.

Step 7: Once you have bolted all 4 bolts and put two long nuts on each of the lower sides of the brackets, you can bolt your seats into the car.

Done! Hope that wasn't to confusing and of course I'll get picture to back this up.

[93BlackMX3]

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