Just a quick question to everyone:

I've recently purchased some seats from Cipher auto. Although I've tried as hard as I can, they SIMPLY ARE NOT compatible with J-bodies.

The provided brackets are simply MUCH too tall. And the slider positions severely restrict how low to mount it.


With that said, any good replica seats out there? Payinf a G for a recaro/Sparco/Bride is simply NOT in my budget.

I'm looking at something I can bang together for $500 or less.

please advise!

fab them yourself, or find someone who can.

I bought corbeau seats and the brackets they came with moved the seats way too far forward. I paid over a grand total for the seats, sliders, and 5 point harnesses.

I sacrificed the sliders and made fixed brackets at my job.


When I retro'd cobalt SS seats into my other car, I also ended up fabbing brackets and also having to modify the inner seat rail on both sides in order to get them to fit the j-body.



fabbing yourself really is the best bet if you know what you're doing.... pre-fabbed brackets always seem to fit like crap, bump the seat up too high or too far forward, and are too expensive.

Yeah...I took measurements last night, and found that the bracket-to-floor mounting point and bracket-to-seat mounting points are right on top of each other, making it IMPOSSIBLE to mount the seat further back AND have it stay low (Sigh).

I'm looking to see if there are any other seats that have them mounted a little closer together (About 1.5 inches in on both sides)

I can't afford $1000 for a seat. Unfortunately not an option at this time. =(

DaFlyinSkwirl (Pj) v2.0 wrote:
fabbing yourself really is the best bet if you know what you're doing.... pre-fabbed brackets always seem to fit like crap, bump the seat up too high or too far forward, and are too expensive.

this.

I want to say mine are the Wedge brackets/sliders and they made the seat way too close, i ended up making my own adapters to move the seat back a couple extra inches



Eat my shift

M2 wrote:
this.

I want to say mine are the Wedge brackets/sliders and they made the seat way too close, i ended up making my own adapters to move the seat back a couple extra inches

who is this clown????

everyone i have known, has ended up making their own.

I am? LOL

well, For me to return everything, I'd have to drive an hour back to the states and return it there. And I won't even be compensated duty charges.

So I'm looking for a solution before resorting to returning the seats. -SIIIIIIGH-

I was thinking, If i bolted a piece of high strength steel from the left to right slider mount points, and have the sliders mount closer to the middle (about 1 inch closer to center from original points), then it will give me the space to fab my own brackets.

BUT, would it be UNSAFE.

Hopefully this can help you, I wrote this over 2 years ago to help somebody else:


It's time to fabricate seat brackets. They are basically made of:

4 Pieces of hardened 1/2" angle iron. ($12 for one 3 foot piece)
2 pieces of hardened 1/2" flat bar. ($8 for one 3 foot piece)

Both of those are steel, btw. Not aluminum.

Then I used assorted grade 7 bolts, washers and nylon lock nuts. That was another $12 or so in hardware.

I basically set the front bar up in a Z and the rear bar in a "U", this lets me mount the seat brackets as far back as possible. Then you cut your flat bar and lay it across where the rails will go, fasten down, and then fasten your rails to the bar - I set the rear rail bolt over the "u" bracket this way one bolt went all the way through 2 pieces of steel. The only way you could make these stronger would be to weld them.
















All you have to do now is take them back to the car, fit them to the floor to square them up, tighten them up, test against the seat for fitment, then paint and install.

THIS is how you take your time and do it right. $80 for seat brackets sounds like a lot until you realize they could save your life. Then it sounds like a bargain.

-Chris-


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