sport seats, your 2 cents ! Options

[DamDirtyApes]

i have a tan interior. iv been thinking these http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayISAP...&category=33701

now come the questions ... how do u think they would look with tan carpet and ceiling. iv been trying to visualize it but id like more opininons.

and i hope i wont get flamed for this but how possible would it be to rip out the rear seats and put a set of those there to.

and finnaly how are those seats on ebay quality wise and comfort wise and do u have any other recomendations (brands) within the same price range.... thanks in advance guys!

[chucho]

i thought about those too, but i have two problems. dont know the comfort level of those seats and i think that the red will be to much in my car for my taste. I'm just going after some blk/grey seats or blk/blk that look killer.

Really would love some corbeau seats but they are to pricey for me.

This post has been edited by chucho: Aug 5, 2004 - 10:48 PM

[DamDirtyApes]

wow those are nice

[celimanST]

those are cool

I would get them

[DamDirtyApes]

ahh just found another kind http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayISAP...&category=33701

[Anub1s]

I don't think that they would look very good with a tan interior. It would be freakin awesome with a black interior tho. The tan seems like it would be just weird lookin to me. The second one would look pretty good in your car tho. IMO

This post has been edited by Anub1s: Aug 7, 2004 - 5:51 PM

[DamDirtyApes]

do u think it woul dbe hard to install, would i just have to take brackets off old seats and screw em on new ones?

[Anub1s]

I'm not sure. I think with after market seats, the come with their own brackets. But I could be mistaken. If that is not the case then you will have to use your stock brackets and make them fit the seats. You might want a second opinion on that tho.

[Digndoug]

Well, sence this is brought up about new seats.. I was just thinking today my seats are kinda old.. an getting soft.. I want something a lil tighter for the corners .. Im also a bigger guy so I want something comfortable. still to just cruise in.. My question is, have any of you sat in these seats.. or what would you recomend for upgrading seats.. for not to much cashh.. Thanks

[DamDirtyApes]

i sat in some cheap apc ones at pep boys and boy were they comfortbale, and they were cheap

[Digndoug]

I was also thinking about some 7th gen seats.. does any one know what you have to do to get those to fit?? Like do you have to weld on the old bracket or what...

[MK153]

I HATE the current seats in my 6g.. they are the stock cloth ones and between the seats and the headroom I am considering getting a diffrent car. I am 6'5" and weigh about 210ish, so I am not fat... but im a pretty big guy in general. The current seats are ok for trips around town, but I drive ALOT (like 22,000 a year roughly) and I want something more comfortable. I dont want racing seats cause its an STX and I dont wanna be a ricer. Do the GT models come with leather seats? If so... could I put them in my celica with out decreasing headroom (i hit my head enough as it is)? Are they more comfortable? The middle of my lower back kills after like 45min ( due to lack of lateral back support).

[DamDirtyApes]

or you could of made a new topic....

[97Celica]

[97Celica]

[NEVERSTOP]

I got the tenzo r ralleys in mine and I love em. There pretty comfy once you get adjusted to em.

As for installing them there where fairly easy to do but you will need to either make a custom braket or remove the ones from your stock seat... doing that will make it impossible to return to your orginal seats so I suggest you make sure you want them if you go that route... but if you wanna use your stock braket heres how to do it.


this is for a tenzo r rally seat.. other seats might benifit from this but no guarntees

1st you will to remove the stock seats. take them and set them upside down on a table or something. If you look at the braket assembly you will see the four mounting brakets. there is a bar that attaches the mounting brakets together(one on each side of the seat)Not the slider postioning control. that is what you are going to use. you will need a drill with a 3/8 bit and hammer to get these off. basically you need to drill out the rivit on the front mounting point.. if I remember correctly there is a weld and a 3/8 flat rivit. DO NOT MESS UP THE WELD, you will need to keep that mounting point intact. but do carefully drill out the rivit. you will aslo need to drill out a section on the center of that bar. it looks like two parallel dips in the metal. Think there are two sets of em per bar, drill those out. Now you need to take a hammer and CAREFULLY tap the bar with the two mounting points off of the whole assembly.. this might take a while and you notice that there are little silver rollers inside that will get all messed up.. thats fine you wont use them agian..

Once you get both bars off you will have to "U" shaped channels with two mounting points on them... u'll understand that when you do it.

take those two bars over to your car and temp mount them down.. you might need to slightly bend the front mounting points back into alignment depending on how hard you where with the hammer, later you will want to weld this down a little since you drilled out the rivit and it will be kind of weak if you dont weld it back. with a marker mark the inside walls of the "U"'s your gonna remove that side from the "U" channel... there the ones that face each other.

take the two bars outta the car. and using a dremmel or other rotary type of cutter carefully remove the marked wall at the bend. the bottom of the "U" channel needs to remain there completly but it can't have the inside wall. make sure its nice and even.

go temp mount these into the car agian. you should be able to set your TENZO seats w/universal sliders for them in now and check out height and everything. If you did it right the seats should fit into the stock braket perfectly.. and I mean perfectly... if they don't... well its time for you to get a little creative and trouble shoot.

now you will need to take everything out agian.

remove the universal sliders off of the seats. make sure that the sliders are set to the exact middle selection.. there are 3 little teeth that you have to set into position.. the middle tooth will line up with a little circle thing on the bottom of the universal sliders for the tenzos.

now you will need to line all of this up with the center of the brackets you made before.. make sure you get the right sides together.. would be a pain if you messed this next section up.

once everything is lined up you will need to weld them together.. be careful not to heat it up too much or you will warp the assmebly ur making and it wont slide very well. do both sets of sliders.

once everything is cooled down reattach the sliders to the seats and bolt them into the car and injoy

also make sure you do the Passanger side 1st so you can still drive to the local hardware store or nething like that if you need extra stuff to make this work. also keep in mind that the 1st seat will take you ALOT longer than the second one to do.

[celicarocker]

i in no way read everyones reply... but

silly kids, its not about comfort.... its about how cooooool it looks.....

This post has been edited by celicarocker: Aug 27, 2004 - 1:51 PM

[Nemises]

The style of the seat is hot but the color is up to you.

[RedSunCelica]

[DamDirtyApes]

dam sounds so confusing... neverstop or whoever else could do it, if u install for me ill pay you 100 dollars lol