1985GSL

iTrader: (4)

i have heard of lots of people doing this before. I s it hard to do if you know anyone who has done it please ask them about it and tell me.and if it is hard to do is it worth it going through the work?

Richard Miller

2nd seats are a bolt in procedure, I would go with the FC seats.

therotaryrocket

I know right, I would love some of the tan leather touring seats from a 3rd gen. If 2nd gen seats are bolt in...I saw in the 2nd gen section of this forum someone put FD seats by changing the brackets on the bottom and drilling the hole bigger or something.

Richard Miller

I have FD seats in my car and it required a fabbed brackets.

1985GSL

iTrader: (4)

hey richard miller,

were the brackets hard to make? they fit in there at a good hight and that kinda stuff right?

1985GSL

iTrader: (4)

What color do fd seats come in? what about fds?

Richard Miller

some day (ive been saying this for 5 years now) I will post detailed info.

nick1

the gsl-se i am in the middle of buying has FD tan leather. can't wait for my baby!!!

nick

Blake

I have 3rd gen R1 Seats (black suede-like cloth...love them!). The driver side seat already had a fabricated bracket but I was on my own to fabricate one for the passenger side. It wasn't exactly hard, but you do need some fabricating skills (not skilz...actual ability), equipment and material.

It's one of those things that if you need detailed instructions, you probably are not capable of doing, so I'll just hit the highlights. First, I kept the stock 1st gen adjustable mounting rails. This meant I only had to weld onto them little adaptor tabs that could bolt to the 'new' seats. To do this, I measured the bolt patterns of both (old and new) seats to see how far off they were from one another. I also measured the difference in height and angle of the rails in the car, to see if I needed to make bends in the tabs to get the seat level. Then, I cut some tabs from 1/8th inch mild steel, bent them as I estimated was required and drilled some holes to bolt them to the new seats. After this, with the rails bolted in the car, I set the seats -- with the adaptor tabs already fastened to them -- in the car, on top of the rails. I didn't like the first fitting, so I fabricated another set of tabs to fix the issues. I liked it so, with the tabs bolted to the seat and sitting on the rails that were bolted to the car, I tacked them in place with the MIG welder. After sitting in the seat and testing the operation of the rails, I removed the rails from the car, unbolted them from the seat and completed the welds. Now, my modified 1st gen rail bolts to the new 3rd gen seat just as it did to the old 1st gen seat. I think it took me about an hour for one seat. The tools I used were a plasma cutter, metal brake, MIG welder, drill press and grinder. I'm sure it could be done with just a MIG, grinder, hand drill, vice and hammer, though. Hope that helps.