fitting racing seats...

[suicide]

hi i just bought sparco racing seats and i cant seem to figure out a way to mount them to my stock sliders... i have tried i few things and they have all failed...

does anyone have any ideas or know of anywhere that i can buy sliders for the seats... thanks..

 

[GotTurbos?]

sparco should sell the sliders, they are expensive though. I saw somewhere where someone built/modified stock ones to work.

 

[suicide]

anyone got any ideas for me

 

[Supracentral]

Sparco seats require a custom seat base a replacement slider and additional hardware to be properly mounted in a MKIII. Sparco makes all these items, or at least used to. I don't see them listed in my current catalog (which is bothersome) and I know I don't have them lying around.

Regardless, whoever sold you those seats should have told you this.

If I can still get them, the price was $189 per seat last time I sold them.

I would guess you could hack something up with the stock sliders, but seat sliders are a big safety item. In a wreck I wouldn't trust something you 'cobbed together'.

ymmv.

 

[dbsupra90]

last spring i tried to get some and they were on backorder til further notice. they may have discontined them.

im glad i didnt get them tho, they sit way too high for me (rode in another supra w/ the brackets).

your best bet is have someone fab up something for you to adapt the stock stuff to the seats. be sure it is someone competent. shoddy work and in a wreck you dont want it to be an ejector seat.

 

[futeki_supra]

they arent to hard to fab up

 

[suicide]

i think i have figured it out... i can fab it myself i was just having truble making it at a hight i like....

 

[suprakid11]

yo i tried that its a bitch it took me a month to put one seat in, and i couldn't use the stock sliders , i didn't have a sparco seat but i did see the kits for it i would take the safe way and buy the brackets because then u know they would work with ur sparco seats of u could do what i did and make ur own brackets and buy sliders up to u

 

[Evilempire1.3JZ-GTE]

It is not that hard take 2 passenger seat railes like i did cut the bottom half of the seat rail off then weld 2 steel 1/8 to ¼" thick plates between them so the seat bolt up weld them in drill holes and your done. no biggy.


where you cut it is at where it starts to bend up off from the top half of the flat part of the passenger rails so the the handle and spring bracket is intact! trying to take apart the rivets is the wrong way to go about it! because the rivets have duel functions and its harder to put back together or weld that way!

 

[figgie]

notes taken on which car not to ride incase of accident.

Evilempire
suprakid
suicide (appropiate name in this regards)

 

[suprakid11]

yo my seats aren't going anywhere my seat brackets are held down by thicker and stronger metal than some of the brackets on the market and there are 3 support bars and 2 real thick support bars and it uses the stock bolts that hold down the stock brackets so that bitch ain't goin any where:icon_razz

 

[Evilempire1.3JZ-GTE]

I must agree mine are stronger then factory and still way lighter if anything the only weakness is the factory slider metal thickness but if it could hold a full size man in plus the 75LB supra seat im sure its fine