I bought some Megan racing seats that look really good but i got dicked. They were suppose to be bolt in and come with everything i need. Only later to find out that i have to have some kind mounting frame for racing seats or something, and i can't send the seats back because they charge a outragous price for restocking...kinda pissed. Anyone know where i can get one of thease frames? I was told any racing seat frame mount for 93 FD would work? any ideas? thanks guys.

 

Are these side mount seats? Assuming they are measure the distance between holes and start shopping for brackets. Megan, Recaro, Sparco, Cobra ... . Do you want sliding monts or fixed. Which ever you will need to do some frabication to install, I mounted my cobra on stock seat rails by buliding a transition frmae of alum. angle bars and plates to pic up the wider hole spacing. Remember that those seats (and belts) support YOU during a crash.

 

check here: http://www.motorsportseats.com/

 

most seats are side and bottom mount....i bought car specific rails...i didnt wanna rish having them made and definetly didnt wanna hack my stock mounts pending i wanna put the stock seat back on it....

id be very surprised if megan didnt make a bracket for the FD....just bolt in...


but....its probably gonna cost a bit...but then again like julian said....its your safety...

 

Some photos of my modified OEM rails to fit Cobra side mounts. Used alum angle stock to may "outriggers" Files to big to upload, I can e-mail them

 

Consider mounting your seats without sliders. Of course that only works if you're the only driver of the car. Sliders are pretty heavy (stocks are nearly 10 lbs each) and defeat much of the weight savings advantages of a race seat.

Recently I mounted my pair of racing seats with the Cobra side mount brackets (3 lbs a pair) and used some short 1" steel flat bar to mount the transmission tunnel side to the original factory seat mounting holes. On the door side I had to go through the floor and use a 1/16" steel plate for reinforcement under the car.

I was able to save 34 lbs compared to the stock leather seats. Of course, most super lightweight reacing seats are flexible enough to require a back support brace that usually mounted to a racing roll bar. This to prevent the seat from breaking in case of a heavy rear impact crash.

Albert

 

The newer FIA seat spec (forgot number) are legal for SCCA and NASA without back brace and in fact the manufactures recommended against the brace as it creates a hard spot on the seat. Within your racing rules follow the seat manufactures guidance on mounting.

 

A whole leather drivers seat with sliders and seat belt recepticle only weights 35 lbs. Most racing seats weigh between 14 and 18. The best you're going to do is 10-15 lbs savings.

 

The Buddy Club seats that I used weight 13.5 lbs each (they advertise 11 lbs). The Cobra side mounts and small pieces of mounting hardware, plus stock seat belt clip came to 4 lbs. Total per installed racing seat is 17.5 lbs.

Original leather seat with sliders = 34.5lbs

Thus, savins = 17lbs per seat, 34 per pair. You just really have to be selective when you're after weight savings on what you choose to install and how to install it.