well today i bought some mazdaspeed replica seats from jeremy(TurboSmoke). they look awsome. installing was a total PITA and im not even done yet. i was gonna use the rails that came with it but i didnt want to drill through the body and i couldnt really find a spot to mount them so they would go all the way through the body. so then i though ok ill use the stock rails. but they dont fit, so i hade to drill new holes in them. then i droped one and the slidder was broke. so i was gonna go back to unversial rails, then i figured i would use stock mounting brackets welded to unversial rails then after cutting out the brackets, went to welding shop but of course they are closed. but i remmeber i have a parts car out back and i got stock rails out of it. then finally got it to work. or you would think.... the new seats have a narrower mounts, so where the seats moutn up the brackets dont fit they are like an inch to narrow, so i need to make a new mount on my floorboard. sorry if i confused you.
but anyway here are the pics.



JdM TyPe ARRRRRRR YO!!!!! lol i jsut thought the box waas too funny

comparsion to stock seat, its got alot more padding

only the passenger seat is mounted, and its only mounted with 2 bolts, the driver seat it just set in thre for the pic

last one, i really like the seats, now i just need to finish building motor to put them to the test.

 

looks nice!
are they lighter than the stock seats?

 

how much did you pay for them?

 

$300 brand new

they flet like it but not sure, ill weight them tommorow.

 

$300 isn't bad at all...i think i will consider these instead of the Sparco's i wanted. they definetly look wicked...

just make sure you get that bolted in right before you go drifting yo!


edit: can you buy these from a distributor, or did you just happen to get them off someone who had them?

 

where i got those seat?

 

those look cool, i got a pair of the sparco knockoffs from ebay. it was a PITA for me as well but i ended up using the stock rails with a few spacers on the passanger side to make the seat sit even.

 

Where did you get the seats from?

 

i bought them from my friend who had bought them off ebay.

 

any weight #s?
thanks!

 

oh damn sorry, i totally forgot about it, ill get try to get soem tommorow.

 

How do they feel?

 

cant really coment on it quite yet since there is no motor in car adn its not fully bolted down, only 2 bolt in right now because i need to make new mounts for them.

 

Tell us about were they put you in the car. Like lower than stock, higher than stock, etc.

 

mine put me higher, but for me that was a good thing. i am on the short side and the way they are now i love it.

 

i've always thought that you could juse use the stock seat rails and weld some new points onto the rails so they will bolt to the new seats.

did you think the seats were just gonna bolt right up?

 

$300 each or for both?

 

in other words I'll never get a deal like that...man you got lucky...nice

 

Looks like $300 on e-bay, but $100 shipping though

 

well they usually have those same seats on ebay but shipping is a bitch. sometimes it is like120 and then other times it is like 90. but hey man love the seats.

 

mother@#$!^* I just found some on ebay....*must not spend more money on car*

 

Im only 5'9 and my hair almost touches the roof with the stock seats
nooooo

 

i have a set of seats that are blue and black .. they dont have logo on them . and they have never been in the car.. actually they are my firends seats. he bought them to put in his car but ended up keeping the stock seats cuz he liked the leather. any takers??,, pm me if interested

 

the 2 inch spikes on top of my head dont hit the roof... but im only 5'6". i had some people that are like 5'9" or so in the passanger seat and they dont have a problem though.

on the drivers side i would beable to remove some spacers(VERY thick washers) that are in there to lower them about 1/2 and inch, but for the passangers side it is as low it itd go without being crooked because of the tranny well.

on mine i was able to use the stock seat rails by just redrilling new mounting holes and i have the plain ebay ones from Auto-unix.