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Old Apr 29, 2003 | 01:06 AM
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2001 celica GTS seats in my car. fit good and are comfortable.

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Old Apr 29, 2003 | 04:35 AM
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My friend and Installed seats from a 90' celica into a FC. I think they felt a hell of a lot better than the stock FC seats and they bolted right in. If FC seats fit in the SA and the Celica seat fit the FC then the Celica seat should fit in a SA.
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Old Apr 29, 2003 | 05:03 AM
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were those celica seats bolt in?..... if not what kind of fabbing was needed?

theres a set for sale at the junkyard here for like 300 bucks...

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Old Apr 29, 2003 | 01:23 PM
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to fit these celica seats in, the stock rails had to be cut and rewelded to geather, to make them fit.
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Old Apr 29, 2003 | 01:42 PM
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I noticed in a local trader that somebody had a pair of leather 93 or later MX6 buckets for sale for $100. If anybody wants it, I can check and send you their number.
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Old Apr 29, 2003 | 03:12 PM
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i was thinking Corbeau TRS or A4, but i cant deicde between them.....

anyone know if they'll actually even fit?

i need one/two for my racecar, and two for my daily.
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Old Apr 29, 2003 | 04:04 PM
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What about the fiberglass/ plastic buckets like what summit sells? Cheap and light, and looks like the give good support. Anyone have experience with these?
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Old Apr 29, 2003 | 04:13 PM
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I sat in a pair in a C4 corvette and they are deceptivly comfortable. I think they are an awsome seat for the money.
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Old Apr 29, 2003 | 10:33 PM
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hey silverrotor..... are you planning on getting another seat for your passenger? I remember sitting in your car way back it is was nice. When is you passenger gonna get the same treatment? LOL
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Old Apr 29, 2003 | 10:56 PM
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1992 Honda Prelude seats are comfortable in an fb, the drivers seat was almost a direct bolt in, but the pass was a workout becuse of the hump in the floor for the exhaust
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Old Apr 30, 2003 | 08:30 AM
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Wow, I posted this thread over a year ago and it's back! Well I bought a set of grey TII seats and am really happy with them. They hold you in really well and look cool, not bad for $200.
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Old Apr 30, 2003 | 12:58 PM
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How do you remove the seatrs? Do you have to get under? Will the seat slide off the rails some way?

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Old Apr 30, 2003 | 01:03 PM
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Are you talking about the stock seats? They're bolted to the floor, 2 per rail. Once the seat is out of the car you can access the rail bolts to the seat, 2 per rail.
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Old Apr 30, 2003 | 09:59 PM
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Have you guys ever seen the seats in the older Fieros? Those have about the biggest side bolsters I've seen on a regular street car. I don't know how hard it would be to make them work, as I haven't taken any of the Fiero seats out to look at the bottom, but I've seen some in the junkyard and they look pretty cool.
A few years ago, I discovered that I could buy racing seats from Britain, and even with shipping cost, they were about $100 cheaper apiece than the best deal I could find on the same seats here in the US. I don't know if that's still the case, but I thought it might be worth mentioning. Funny thing is, the seats were made in the US.
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Old Apr 30, 2003 | 10:05 PM
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The turbo seats
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Old Apr 30, 2003 | 10:11 PM
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Another shot
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Old Apr 30, 2003 | 10:13 PM
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purple82,

those look great, do you know if they ever came in burgandy?
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Old Apr 30, 2003 | 10:20 PM
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I've only ever seen turbo seats in grey (87-88) and black (89-91). The GXL came in all kinds of colors, but the seats weren't as nice.
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Old Apr 30, 2003 | 10:31 PM
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Originally posted by purple82
Are you talking about the stock seats? They're bolted to the floor, 2 per rail. Once the seat is out of the car you can access the rail bolts to the seat, 2 per rail.
I guess that means you can't slide the seat off the rail then unbolt the rail from the floor. So, do you hafta fish around under the seat from inside the car and unbolt 4 bolts, remove whole assembly, then remove rails from seat bottom? Is that done from inside or from underneath?

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Old Apr 30, 2003 | 10:37 PM
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It's really easy. The rails bolt directly to the floor. You can get to all of them by just sliding the seat forward and backward to make clearance to swing a rachet. You should be able to see all the bolts by just looking around the seats.

Once the seats are out of the car, you just turn them over and unbolt the rails.

I suppose you could remove the rails from the seats without unbolting them from the car, but that would be unnecessarily hard.

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Old Apr 30, 2003 | 11:52 PM
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My plan is to throw a couple Acura GSR seats in my 85 I have a coworker who said he'd hook me up (read: steal some). I know that it's not a cool thing, but someone is going to buy them, it might as well be me. No idea about fitting them yet, but worst comes to worst, I'll bust out the ol' flame gun
Poor logic man. If there is any Karma, someone is gonna smash the hell out of your car and steal the GSR seats for themselves. Hey, if their gonna steal them, it might as well be yours!
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Old May 1, 2003 | 12:30 AM
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these are the seats i have for my,

bit of fabbing to make them fit but nothing too hard you cant do with a grinder and a welder,



will have pics of them mounted in my car this weekend

Dale
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Old May 7, 2003 | 06:19 PM
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purple82,

those look great, do you know if they ever came in burgandy?
This isn't quite burgandy, but may be close enough.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eB...tem=2413914507

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Old May 7, 2003 | 07:44 PM
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I thought this was about back seats?



Anyway, here is a picture of the back seat I have in my SE. Has like four 5/8" bolts holding it in. Two of them go thru the body crossmember and two go into the threaded connection on the wheel well. I know the 84/85s have this connection--probably one of the few english threaded connections on the whole vehicle.

Oh yea, pretty much kids only back there--but then again thats why I bought it. Beats getting a big ticket.

Scott
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