Has anyone ever done this? I've seen RX8 seats in plenty of hardtops, but never in a vert.

I have a set sitting around collecting dust, (since my hardtop is taking WAY TOOOOOOOO LONG to finish,) and since my vert seats are kind of busted I'm thinking about doing a swap.

I'm wondering about height clearance and such...

 

No one? I might have to be the first...
Trial and error I guess!

 

Like to see this too.

 

nice

 

My buddy has them in his ls1 vert in rocky mount. I am going to see if I can find a pic of them. The passenger one sits higher than the drivers seat. They looked good.

 

best i can do for now...

 

If you could that would be appreciated.

How much higher? Dramatically noticeable, or slightly noticeable?

 

very slightly. I wouldnt have noticed immediately had he not pointed it out.

 

**** i would have posted pics if i seen this thread before

 

I've been fabing up the 8 seats to fit during the last few nights.
Should have them done in a day or so.
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<o:p></o:p>I'll have pics of my install up once it's complete...
Please post yours in the mean time though.

 

I have a strong feeling this will make me put these seats in mine...

 

GOOD luck with the build of using stock fc rails to fit the 8 seats... damn nightmare when i tried to fabricate using the stock rails to fit my seats.. ended up sitting too high or uneven..


if you call wedge engineering then can custom make them for you and they sit just as low as stock... but like always the passenger seat is always higher just little bit

 

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I'm not using stock FC rails, I am using the RX8 rails and modifying them to work with 2 of the existing FC seat bolt locations. The other 2 seat bold locations had to be modded.<o:p></o:p>
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My driver's side is already done, and it was an engineering NIGHTMARE to get it to work, but after I actually drive around in them I might deem that it was worth.<o:p></o:p>
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Once I get the passenger side in I'm going to create a How To.<o:p></o:p>
This project was not for the weak at hear though. The carpet had to be removed to get to the floor boards, the seat had to be stripped down to just the rails and electric motors, and a **** TON of welding, grinding, and cutting had to be accomplished.<o:p></o:p>
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(I really should have thought this one over before I started.)<o:p></o:p>

 

Mine has stock 8 rails hacked to ****. the bolts jsut go threw the floor and bolt on under the car. i didnt out them in i bought the car with them in but that was hile ago. ive did major work to the car and going to modife the seat brackets IN the car rather than the seats themselves. the pass. seat stays put. the driver seat slides. but they look damn sexy when the tops down and ****