I'm planning to change my seats in my car to something more never than the standard 2 seater electric seats. I have come upon a pair of OBX Daytona racing seats and was wondering if anyone has had any problems installing after market sports seats in there car:?) Do you need to make any modifications to the seat railings or are they just able to be bolted directly into the existing frames. Any help will be good.ThanksRegards Max
It's a hard one as you just have to suck it and see. I was going to put racing seats in mine instead of getting the leather redone but Repco advised me that the new seats would have to be certified by an engineer.So it got too difficult and I decided to stick with what I had. The beat way would be to remove you seats and measure up the sear rails to see if they match or at least come close. Plus you would have to check the side clearances to see that they will actually fit into the Z. All the best with it regards John
Thanks John, but..... The seats have to be certified? sounds strange i thought that as long as they have been ADR approved it would be okay, but will check it out though.ThanksRegards Max
I'm only going on what the guys at Repco said. Not that this was the only reason I didnt go with them. I would have had to fill the holes above your shoulders with a full harness seatbelt otherwise it would look odd and I would have to obtain the fabric they were made of to replace the fabric on the trim inside. Plus these seats were on display, and they couldnt show me how the attach fittings were underneath. So for $900 it got to hard!! But Im sure they would look outasight if they were fitted up with matching trim!regards John
Im not going to argue with Luig but... On the certified issue, check the tag under the cushion to see if its been certified/tested to meet australian standards. Most high quality andjustable seats have to be australian standards approved. The tag should say something like:AS-D/G123456 =Australia Standards (AS) Type (G/D) then the number (123456)or AS:ISO 9000/9001/9004 =Manufactured under ISO9000 approved Quality System (the same system compliance workshops operate under)or alternatively:JASANZ = Which is the Japanese quality system approval Regarding Rails, you probably will need new rails, although many seats will fit your factory rails. Try measuring the distance between the lugs both left to right and front to rear and compare that to the aftermarket seat.
Try Simon at TTZ or Wykked >>> Simon has OBX seats as part of his range of products, although the Daytona is not listed on his website <A HREF=http://www.ttzed.com/products/products_listing.cfm?cat=109&grouping=1&title=Sports%2FRacing%20Seats>HERE</A>.The following is taken from one of the pages: " ... Each OBX Seat is individually hand-made, offering great styling, exceptional comfort and orthopaedic design, OBX Seats meet and exceed the requirements of ADR 3/01 & ADR 22/00. (extra cloth is also available should you wish to purchase). Seats are sold in pairs ONLY (1x RH, 1x LH) or special order 2x RH can be arranged, please nominate PN# and colour when ordering. NOTE: seats are sold as is, there are NO mounting accessories provided, seats are pre-drilled and tapped with multiple fixing points, you may be required to purchase separately dual locking sliders and base plates. ..."Simon should be able to provide further info on fitting OBX seats to Z's, and Wykked recently fitted a pair, so an email to them may help with specific Z questions.
hehe, thanks Mikey email already sent...... as i was at Peter's place a few dayz ago and saw that he fitted racing seats to his car, even sat on one of them and it felt great and sooooo much better than the stock seats. The daytona series is of ebay and at $440 a set i thought it would be worth enquiring about.ThanksMaxP.S. Maybe a future group buy if its goes well!
really firm on longer trips in my opinion racing seats feel great when you first get in and really good when you're ripping it a bit, but they really bite if you just want to cruise. i'd only get them if it's not a daily driven car. just my opinion
They were a little wrong......>> The seats need to comply with relevent ADRs/Standards, but the mounts will only need an engineers cirtificate if you fabricate them your self. You can buy sliders and mounts from a number of seat manufacturers that are (like the seats) already engineerd. At the moment that is the only issue with my seats, the mounts are borrowed from Simon's Recaros and make my seats higher then I would like. They are also not cheap. We are searching for the cheapest and easiest solution so that if anyone wants to put seats in like mine then the runners are available at a sensible price locally.
Curious ? Did you install them in Gilgandra? Or, did you sit in them for the drive to Gilgandra as well?
I car hopped.......>> On the way up so it was for shorter intervals, but the drive back was all in my car.
I'm currently installing .... Cobra Daytona sprts seats. I've made brackets out of 5mm steel to attach to the standard floor mounting positions and bolting new seat sliders to these brackets.With this system I've lowered my sitting position by about 30mm (helps when you're 6'2" or 188cm).Because I'm using 5mm steel and the supplied bolts, I'll have no problems having it engineered (apart from paying over the money).
you got any pics of these brackets? Getting the brackets dome is easy as i work for a steel manufacturing company, so anything out of steel is easy, but just roughly how will these brackets look like? Just to be safe will use 8mm bright steel.Max
Me neither on my trip from Newy to Adel a trip in excess of 17 hours with only a few short breaks. My seats are AAR sports seatsCheers
I need to take some pics for wykked... will try to take some this weekend.The sliders I am using are from Revolution Racegear and cost $95 per set. They're only 23mm high.I used 5mm to keep the hieght as low as possible.The rear bracket is essentially one piece 40 X 410 x 5 welded to two pices of 50 X 90 X 5 set at right angle at each end to make a [ shape. This should leave 50 x 50 of each lower piece uncovered, into the middle of each (360mm apart) drill a 10.5 mm hole.The front bracket requires two pieces of 90 x 50 x 5 but they need to be bent to about 95 degrees with one end 50 the other 40. My sliders attach 290mm apart on the seat. I cut 15mm off the inside edge of the 50mm long side of each of the bent pieces then welded them to the top of a piece of 410 X 50 X 5 so they hung over the edge.I then radiused the 40mm ends and drilled a 10.5mm hole in the middle of each (later opened them up to 12mm for easier fitting.
I think Max and I.........>> Will be doing a bit of fabrication once we see your pictures. Were the runners you got from Revolution dual locking or single locking? and what was the part number?
Sliders are dual locking .... have a twist lever on the right hand runner and a piece of wire between the right lock and the left lock (same as stock passenger slider locks).Also need to buy two new seat belts as the only legal way to mount the buckle is to bolt it to the floor, using the inside rear seat bolt. The existing buckley won't mount there and they don't sell the stalks seperatly.
Not quite what I meant......>> When I asked if they were dual locking I was referring to sliders like THESE. The more I think about it the more I think I'm just going to sit down with Max and fabricate something. All of the aftermarket brackets I've seen/played with all have a tab for mounting the stalk so our design will also incorperate one of those.
