Ok,

Can you guys please post some pics on how you did the custom brackets for the sparco torino? Did any of you use the universal mounting bracket sparco sells, and if so, how did you get it to work with the car?

I've seen some of the How-to's but they dont help too much. I would like to have my car on the road when the seats arrive (if the seats arrive, i still have time to cancel the order if it is too much of a pain to install them)

Any help would be appriciated.

thank you in advance

bobby

 

i just got one of my DAD seats put in the guy made spacers to centralize the new seat, then just mounted everything on the original rail/slider. hopefully i can take some pics before the next one goes in which will be like 2 weeks b/c im goign out of town.
-stephen

 

Thanks man. anybody else?

 

hey

I installed my torino seats by looking at

http://www.jayspec7.com/sparcoinstall.html

First one took me a while but second one only took me about an 1/2 hr....

Check out the site and if you have any other question..PM me

Tae

 

Yeah,

I have seen that site. That is my backup plan...i did buy the universal sliders for the seat, so if i can make thoes work, ill do it. If not, no biggie, ill go with jayspec7's method. The seats and brackets come on sat so ill know then.

The reason i dont really want to bodge togther something witht he stock seat rails is safty. If the thing isnt built strongly, ill fly through the windshield.

thanks, and if i run into some trouble ill PM you

 

Oh and btw, is the thing you built sturdy? If the sparco rails dont seem to work out ill have to go witht he stock rails.

 

I used stock bracket/rail and feels like bitch is bolted on the ground

sparco rail/bracket WILL not work without modifying it?? why waste money when you could spend $10 and get it over with

 

The problem with fitting aftermarket seats to the FD is that the seat belt receiver is integrated into the slider.

I'm in the middle of installing my one piece Sparco Roadsters with the steel side brakets (ala Rob Robinette), but will likely have to do some hacking (at the brackets) to make it fit right.

Would have been done long ago if I was not **** (already hacked apart a Sparco universal mount kit) - and not willing to compromise (much) slider travel, lateral fit (shoulder bolster clearance of the door panel), seat back tilt (remember, one piece seats) and the stock seat belt receiver (not willing to compromise at all).

I'll post pics in my Interior project thread here in the Interior/Ext section later....

Meanwhiles, the only company I know that makes FD specific brackets (readily available in the US) is Corbeau, who indicates their brackets integrate the seat belt receiver. Have no idea what it looks like.

Mazdaspeed makes replacement seats and I *think* they bolt in place of the stock seats, but are ugly IMHO and are pricey to boot. Sure there are more solutions available in Japan.

 

Where did you guys mount your seatbelts? Im talking on the tranny side. Like Dclin said, the belt is intagrated into the seat. Ill check the how-to sites because i think i remember seeing a racing harness install.

I got my sparco's today. and i think ill have at them tonight. any tips and help is welcomed.

Im going to use jayspec7's method. So much for uni. brackets, they aer on backorder for 3 weeks.

later

bobby

 

Seats are in!!!

Seats fit very very well ( i made a few of my own modifications :smile: )

I'll post pics tonight, both went in an 5 hours together

later

 

ok here we go.. . . .

Heres a pic of the bracket reinforcements i made to keep the brackets the right width apart.

 

ok the forum is being dumb again (or im being dumb)

 

I don't think the forum will allow attachments at the moment. You'll have to have the pictures hosted somewhere.

 

No problem. I just thought i was doing somehtin wrong. ill post em on the web.

 

Ok here we go. . .

Here is the seats and some install pics.

Jayspec7's website
www.jayspec7.com

Pics can be found at
http://www12.brinkster.com/spooledup7/irmods.html
Scroll to the bottom to get the sparco pics :grin:

I used Jayspec7's writeup to install the sparco seats to my stock sliders. Now, jayspec7 says to take off both adjustment ***** on each side to make it fit. He is correct unless you want to modify the interior panel. I really wanted to have at least one adjustment **** per seat, so I cut my interior pannel so the **** would fit. It looks really cool because the seat slides back into the panel. You will see what I did when you see the pics.

At first i really didn’t want to hack up the panel. I feared it would look like crap. On the exposed parts i filed and sanded the cuts to make it look nice. I was very surprised by the result. It looks like it was made to be this way. With the seat installed, you can not see much of the cut i made. I do have to slide the seat forward to adjust it, but its better then no adjustment at all.

The Sparco harnesses were not a problem. I used the stock seatbelt mounting hole on the outside of the seat. For the inside i used the stock seatbelt reinforcement bar's mounting hole. I have a M2 harness/rear strut bar on its way.

My seats fit perfectly. They don’t even touch the door! All i had to do was adjust the mounting brackets a few times to get it right.

I finished the job in about 6 hours for both seats, with seatbelts. It wasn’t as bad as i expected it to be.

And finally, they are sooo comfortable to sit in. They sit a little higher then the stockers, which inst a problem for me. They also hold you in the seat when taking a corner. I am very satisfied with the seats and highly recommend them.

 

Oh yeah,

I installed my PFCw/ commander tonight. . .

No more 3k bucking! I can finally cruse in my car!

It has been a very very good day for my car

later

bobby

Oh ill get some shots of the seats in the car and all, it was too dark outside to take them.

 

Nice

 

wow.. great install... glad that my instructions came to good use for someone...

I like how you hacked the panel... hmm something for me to think about...

I have to redo mine a little... the seat touches the door a bit...

but anyway.. looks GREAT!!!

 

And thank you for the write-up!

Yeah as soon as i got them i decided that not having the adjustment **** was not a option, so out the jugsaw came

Yeah i got mine to not touch the door at all. Having the extra space with that panel helped, but the major factor was how the rails were. I fitted them in the car, saw how much room i had to work with, took the seat out and beat the brackets more to the left or the right to get it to fit. My camera died so i couldnt get any good pics of both of em in there and finished. I wil take some tommarro when i get the chance.

 

Good job! It's that damn stock seatbelt receiver that is the way, and keeps me from being able to push the seat more towards the center of the car (and therefor away from the door panel).

Even though I plan on adding harnesses, I want to keep the stock seatbelt system (with no mods) in case the inspection police wants to give me grief...

 

dclin,

you ever take pics?

 

Heheheh i cut mine off with a sawsall (i think thats what you are talking about. . .) I dont really care about stock seatbelts, the tan would look like *** with my black seats.

 

Got a little distracted hehe. Got everything I need, and will finish off this week. I'll link pics then.

 

Not a single link working anymore. I've had 2 sparco torino seats sitting in my garage for over a year now, i've read about poeple cutting the shaft on the doghouse side, but... hey I paid 700$ per seat, not to cut the darn shaft out.

Anyone has any write ups about the exact brackets or something?

Thanks