manual seat rails?

[JerzeySlowpra]

does anyone know if any of the N/A supra's come with a manual driver seat rale, or what other toyota's bolt into our cars with a manual seat rail, someone told me the celica's do, does anyone know what years?

 

[bluemax]

I believe when I bought my '87 NA the only seat option for the supra was leather. The powered drivers seat was standard. No option for power on the passenger seat.

 

[Bishop92t]

MA70 series had two power seat choices (each year, they added more adjustability later in the years but still only two choices) and no manual seat options.

 

[IJ.]

If you really wanted a non powered set of rails for your drivers seat wouldn't a seat from a RHD cut do the job?

 

[Bishop92t]

I've seen people use RHD power seats to give their passenger power seats. Driver's seat is very likely the same mounting points so you could rip some passenger seats out of a JZA70 or GA70. Anyone know what kind of drivers seats the GA70 got? That was afterall the economy Supra, maybe it got all manual seats?

 

[Jeff Lange]

MA70 series had two power seat choices (each year, they added more adjustability later in the years but still only two choices) and no manual seat options.

Sorry to disagree Bishop, but there were manual seats, the power seat was an option. I've seen multiple cars that had the manual seats (N/A and Turbo), and Toyota lists the parts for the manual seat right up until 92, including the necessary Shadow Grey parts .

Don't have any info on the manual rails or anything though, sorry.

(The lumbar/bolsters were always power though).

 

[IJ.]

DOH! missed an A in my post I meant the RHD passenger seat as it's non powered in our cars!

I suspect he wants to save some weight by ditching the powered driver seat.
(a lot of the extra weight is in the seat itself so swapping out the rails isn't going to do a lot may as well use the entire RHD seat)

 

[Bishop92t]

LOL, the lumbar and kidney supports ARE electric powered, therefore the seats are powered seats. They just don't tilt and slide under power. There never was a MA70 chassis in the US with a fully non-power seat.

And for the record, the stripper model seats with just lumbar and kidney electric powered controls is quite a bit lighter then the full power seat. My 86.5 had the base model seats and they were pretty light and easy to manage. I nearly gave myself a hernia lifting my leather full power 92 seats out for the first time.

 

[Jeff Lange]

True, but since his question had to do with the rails, the lumbar/bolster support really doesn't matter... right?

EDIT: I should have used "manual", heh it's really only a manual seat compared to the full power seat, it still does have powered stuff. (I did include that in my post )

 

[JerzeySlowpra]

so the passenger seat rail is the same?, i have an 89 full leather full electric seat and i wanted to ditch it for weight

 

[Bishop92t]

The left hand side of all the MA70 and JZA70's are the same (probably GA70 too). The right hand sides are all the same. However you can't swap the driver and passenger seat from the same chassis.

 

[group a supra]

if you like ill check mine as the seats are out at the min i also have manual rails in mine just lumbar and kid supports are electric think the rail positioning is different though

 

[JerzeySlowpra]

hmm...

 

[iruyle]

LOL, the lumbar and kidney supports ARE electric powered, therefore the seats are powered seats. They just don't tilt and slide under power. There never was a MA70 chassis in the US with a fully non-power seat.

And for the record, the stripper model seats with just lumbar and kidney electric powered controls is quite a bit lighter then the full power seat. My 86.5 had the base model seats and they were pretty light and easy to manage. I nearly gave myself a hernia lifting my leather full power 92 seats out for the first time.

Hrm, I have an 86.5 with a fully manual driver's seat. it includes the height adjustment.
For that matter, the 86.5 TSM shows three different seat diagrams; one powered, one manual sans height adjustment and one manual with the height adjustment. I stumbled across this ancient thread looking to see if people might be looking for one to reduce the substantial weight the powered seat adds.

Now I'm wondering if I just missed the power hook-up for the lumbar support somewhere. seems more likely.

 

[iruyle]

Still, if anyone wanted to drop about 20 pounds, the manual seat is an easy way to do it.

 

[SupraMedical68]

 

[iruyle]

Call me Lazarus.
I only stumbled across it looking for some hardcore weight-reducing maniac who would want a set without those hefty motors.