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can anyone give me any tips or has anyone fitted bucket seat sidemounts to a 04/newage impreza.im racking my brains wondering how theyre going to fit in!. many thanks in advance, pete.
I have sparco side mounts in my classic. The mountings are almost the same for a newage i am sure. I got an old set of seats from a car that was being scrapped and reomved the subframes from them. I then looked at how i was going to attach the seats to the subframes. I decided that if i kept the sliding mechanism that the seat was going to sit too high.
I cut of the four points from the subframes that fix to the floor pan of the car and then made up some flat bar to suit the bottoms of the side mounts and then welded on the four mounting points to the end of the flat bar.
OMP do a subframe that bolt straight in. you then just bolt the side mounts to the subframe. It fits the classic and newage. Not cutting or welding required. Bolt in and forget.
Ive got sparco S-light "prodrive" seats in my 04 blob. Got the side mounts and frame from GPR at silverstone. They had the side mounts in stock but had to get the frames from abroad..
I think you would need to pick up on existing floor bolts to be 100% safe, as the seat needs to be 100% solid in its mounting and the existing points will be very strong whereas bolting through the floor would not be as strong unless it was reinforced. Also you would have no adjustment on the seat.
I think you would need to pick up on existing floor bolts to be 100% safe, as the seat needs to be 100% solid in its mounting and the existing points will be very strong whereas bolting through the floor would not be as strong unless it was reinforced. Also you would have no adjustment on the seat.
yup i was intending on using the existing holes, the side mounts have a variety of holes drilled into them as they are so was hoping some of these would line up over the existing ones, not bothered about adjustment as nobody drives the car apart from me, so am i correct in assuming i dont need the sub frame as long as the holes line up?
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has above theres no way side mounts will fit to exsiting holes.... one off three ways off doing it
get the above subframe
get a weld in subframe from demon tweeks where two metal bars and the side mounting... get the seat nice and low rally cars use these and seen a few in the project section(before you order a set if you do pm me has ive got some new unused)
or use the seat mounts off the standard rears which is what i did mate nice and simple
Steve, I honestly can't remember but they were heavy duty and quite heavy.
I don't have them any more so can't weigh them.
You then had the added weight of the side mouts too. The lightest option would be to have bars welded in.
has above theres no way side mounts will fit to exsiting holes.... one off three ways off doing it
get the above subframe
get a weld in subframe from demon tweeks where two metal bars and the side mounting... get the seat nice and low rally cars use these and seen a few in the project section(before you order a set if you do pm me has ive got some new unused)
or use the seat mounts off the standard rears which is what i did mate nice and simple
Thanks mate, Think i`ll just go for the bolted in subframe
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sparco sidemount help!.
