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Old Jan 5, 2012 | 12:04 PM
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Default Installing racing seats in my 01 firebird
Christmas rolled around and I needed to give myself a present so I went a head and bought a set of JDM black leather red stitched racing seats only to find out they didn't come with mounting brackets -_- looking online I can't even find any that look right for my car. The offset of the bolts to the floor make it hard to just make my own extension piece also so I'm hoping someone else out there has had the same issue and solved it! Let me know ASAP please!
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Ouch!! Those are nice seats too, hopefully you get to install them.
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You 'll have to use your stock rails and make adapters to fit the seats onto rails.

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Give these guys a call

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^ no offense but making the adapters is $20 at most.
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lol true, but not everyone if fabrication savvy
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lol true, but not everyone if fabrication savvy
Measure, measure, cut, and drill holes.
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Measure, measure, cut, and drill holes.
bc everyone has tools to cut metal? or drill holes? lol i think alot of us take for granted having some fab skills, or the tools to do so
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bc everyone has tools to cut metal? or drill holes? lol i think alot of us take for granted having some fab skills, or the tools to do so
True because only professional fabricators own a drill and die grinder
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Originally Posted by 94'BLKBRD
Measure, measure, cut, and drill holes.
Shut up juanito, you shouldn't play with tools because you can hurt yourself.
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Shut up juanito, you shouldn't play with tools because you can hurt yourself.
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I have corbeau racing seats and brackets, I believe they also sell the brackets separately which should fit any application
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Originally Posted by bad_408_vert
You 'll have to use your stock rails and make adapters to fit the seats onto rails.

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Great writeup first of all. My only problem is the width between the stock rails and the width between the racing seat bolts are exactly the same in the front and only 1/4 different in the back so I don't have the luxury of being able to drill holes in the plates to the outside of the stock rails. The only way would be to drill thru the rail and unless there's some way of separating the top and bottom portion of the rail I have no way of getting a wrench in there to tighten the bolts or even get the bolts in there in the first place. This is killing me...
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No, its definitely do able.
I ran into same problem but found a way to make it work once the stock rails were out of the car. My seats still slide back/forth like stocks seats.

I 'll take a picture of my seats this weekend and post here.
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No, its definitely do able.
I ran into same problem but found a way to make it work once the stock rails were out of the car. My seats still slide back/forth like stocks seats.

I 'll take a picture of my seats this weekend and post here.
Alright sounds good I really appreciate it I'm gonna be so relieved and happy once i get these in. Thanks again
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