Bucket seat install help!!!
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Bucket seat install help!!!
I need some ideas on how to install my new bucket seats for my daily driver. My seats wont bolt up to the stock sliders since the brackets are a bit wider and I am considering just bolting them down some how without the sliders. Anyone have some links or pics of custom mounts before I start this project? Everything I find is someone installing their buckets but not showing how/if they modified them.
My new seats are NRG Innovations
My new seats are NRG Innovations
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They're like any other bucket seat mounts
I have thought about just doing L shaped brackets and just mounting them to the floorboard, sliders would be nice but I don't care for them to much.
I have thought about just doing L shaped brackets and just mounting them to the floorboard, sliders would be nice but I don't care for them to much.
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I got a metal bender off the side of the road, got some plates of steel and bent them to sit nice on the stock mounting locations. Then I drilled it out and mounted the L-bracket to it.
Massive PITA to fit and when I eventually have it taken out I will have someone with more fab skills make me a rail. But for now its pretty freaking sturdy.
Massive PITA to fit and when I eventually have it taken out I will have someone with more fab skills make me a rail. But for now its pretty freaking sturdy.
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I made my own version of these cost about $20. If you or a friend don't have mad welding skills, order from brian.
Custom Driver's Side Miata Seat Rail for RACE SEATS. for Miata
Custom Miata Seat Rail for RACE SEATS- PASSENGER SIDE for Miata
Custom Driver's Side Miata Seat Rail for RACE SEATS. for Miata
Custom Miata Seat Rail for RACE SEATS- PASSENGER SIDE for Miata
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Ug, I hate mounting seats. I've done 2 and they've both been a pain in my ***.
My current MOMO start has two strips of metal bolted to the bottom. I use the stock front mounting holes, but the seat covers the rears. So the strips stick out behind the seat and I drilled a hole through the floor and use a bolt and a big washer. Keep that in mind if you're not going to use sliders, sliders help during install because...they slide.
Most important part to mounting a seat: Fabricate one thing at a time. Either fabricate the brackets to the car first, or the seat to the brackets. You can't get precise enough measurements to do both at the same time and have it come out in the correct spot.
However, you'll need to do some rough measurements to make sure when you bolt the brackets to the car, they're not too wide or too narrow to bolt the seat to. Get it?
Good luck.
My current MOMO start has two strips of metal bolted to the bottom. I use the stock front mounting holes, but the seat covers the rears. So the strips stick out behind the seat and I drilled a hole through the floor and use a bolt and a big washer. Keep that in mind if you're not going to use sliders, sliders help during install because...they slide.
Most important part to mounting a seat: Fabricate one thing at a time. Either fabricate the brackets to the car first, or the seat to the brackets. You can't get precise enough measurements to do both at the same time and have it come out in the correct spot.
However, you'll need to do some rough measurements to make sure when you bolt the brackets to the car, they're not too wide or too narrow to bolt the seat to. Get it?
Good luck.
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And use grade 8 hardware, please. Not just whatever bolt from the bin at Lowes fits. Do that for mockup and assembly, sure. But once you figure out what bolts you need, get real hardware.
Grade 5 is probably fine; most OEM bolts are grade 8 as far as I can tell. Just don't use random bolts of unknown grade.
Grade 5 is probably fine; most OEM bolts are grade 8 as far as I can tell. Just don't use random bolts of unknown grade.
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Ug, I hate mounting seats. I've done 2 and they've both been a pain in my ***.
My current MOMO start has two strips of metal bolted to the bottom. I use the stock front mounting holes, but the seat covers the rears. So the strips stick out behind the seat and I drilled a hole through the floor and use a bolt and a big washer. Keep that in mind if you're not going to use sliders, sliders help during install because...they slide.
Most important part to mounting a seat: Fabricate one thing at a time. Either fabricate the brackets to the car first, or the seat to the brackets. You can't get precise enough measurements to do both at the same time and have it come out in the correct spot.
However, you'll need to do some rough measurements to make sure when you bolt the brackets to the car, they're not too wide or too narrow to bolt the seat to. Get it?
Good luck.
My current MOMO start has two strips of metal bolted to the bottom. I use the stock front mounting holes, but the seat covers the rears. So the strips stick out behind the seat and I drilled a hole through the floor and use a bolt and a big washer. Keep that in mind if you're not going to use sliders, sliders help during install because...they slide.
Most important part to mounting a seat: Fabricate one thing at a time. Either fabricate the brackets to the car first, or the seat to the brackets. You can't get precise enough measurements to do both at the same time and have it come out in the correct spot.
However, you'll need to do some rough measurements to make sure when you bolt the brackets to the car, they're not too wide or too narrow to bolt the seat to. Get it?
Good luck.
I am also considering saying screw the brackets they give you and go another route. The seat fits fairly nice without the brackets and I am considering adding a few strips that just weld to the floor and go straight up to the mounting holes on my seat. Bad part of that is it will be very flimsy I would assume.
Do you have pics of your seat mounting? It makes me regret buying these things, I should have just kept my MSM seats
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I'v got the welder, just not the confidence of making the buckets work.
These things are comfy. They feel like a tight fit of my MSM seats. Getting them to fit is just a royal pain in the ***. Guess I may be holding on to these buckets for my next car project I have if I can't make them fit.