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Bucket seats
Posted: Sat Jul 25, 2009 10:56 am
by bridgey
Does anybody in NZ know if universal brackets are available for after market bucket seats?
Posted: Sat Jul 25, 2009 1:24 pm
by Lunacy
Nope, ul need custom ones. The only company i know that makes brackets for a starion are Sparco in the states, and they are around $150NZD each and only fit sparco seats.
Not too hard to fabricate up though if you can weld.
Posted: Sat Jul 25, 2009 1:48 pm
by bridgey
ok thanks, i know a guy who has just got an engineers apprenticeship....should be able to do it cheap if i give him diagrams
Posted: Sat Jul 25, 2009 2:12 pm
by OLD FART
bridgey wrote:ok thanks, i know a guy who has just got an engineers apprenticeship....should be able to do it cheap if i give him diagrams
Whot type of seat do you want to fit ??
Dave (Redzone ) installed my Velo race seat onto the stock runners and it is perfect :D
Posted: Sat Jul 25, 2009 2:14 pm
by Lunacy
OLD FART wrote:bridgey wrote:ok thanks, i know a guy who has just got an engineers apprenticeship....should be able to do it cheap if i give him diagrams
Whot type of seat do you want to fit ??
Dave (Redzone ) installed my Velo race seat onto the stock runners and it is perfect :D
Il second that urs is awesome :)
Posted: Sat Jul 25, 2009 2:18 pm
by bridgey
i have some lemax le mans style seats
Posted: Sat Jul 25, 2009 3:17 pm
by thrash
perhaps i'm derailing this thread, but in the hopes that it is very much related, I wanted to ask, how much of a difference do aftermarket buckets make compared to the standard bucket seats? (Let's say you're going with reclineable ones to keep it registered as a 4/5 seater)
Posted: Sat Jul 25, 2009 4:49 pm
by bridgey
thrash wrote:perhaps i'm derailing this thread, but in the hopes that it is very much related, I wanted to ask, how much of a difference do aftermarket buckets make compared to the standard bucket seats? (Let's say you're going with reclineable ones to keep it registered as a 4/5 seater)
im more doing it because the current drivers seat has no padding left, the knee rest is broken, half the support cables are broken...basically im doing it for the racing look and this way i can get the factory one reupholstered at my own lesiure and have them there in case i ever sell it
Posted: Sat Jul 25, 2009 4:55 pm
by RiceThief
bridgey are they side or bottom mounted?
Thrash - depends on the design of the bucket, but on my fixed back makes a massive difference, you dont need to worry about bracing yourself when you go into a corner compared to the stock seat.
Posted: Sat Jul 25, 2009 4:57 pm
by bridgey
theyre bottom mounted, fitted the seats to factory rails and my head was on the roof
Posted: Sat Jul 25, 2009 10:26 pm
by RiceThief
Have you got pics of the bottom of the seat?
Posted: Sun Jul 26, 2009 3:47 am
by MainstreaM
There not listed in their catalog but Corbeau has a bracket to fit the starion to their seats.
Kane
Posted: Mon Jul 27, 2009 10:40 am
by panda
Australian 81-86 Sigma's have the exact same floor mounts as a Starion.
Grab a set of stuffed Sigma seats, remove the runners & fit them to your new seats.
Posted: Mon Jul 27, 2009 2:33 pm
by bridgey
panda wrote:Australian 81-86 Sigma's have the exact same floor mounts as a Starion.
Grab a set of stuffed Sigma seats, remove the runners & fit them to your new seats.
are the sigma ones lower?
Posted: Mon Jul 27, 2009 4:10 pm
by panda
No, Starion are lower seats than Sigma.