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Subaru seats installed.

Posted: Wed Nov 11, 2009 5:48 pm
by Vulpes
Heres a couple of pics of my subaru seats i got off ebay for $172.50 for the pair.

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Posted: Wed Nov 11, 2009 7:04 pm
by groupAralliart
no no no

Posted: Wed Nov 11, 2009 8:06 pm
by bridgey
Suby seats in a mitsi? sacrilege

Posted: Wed Nov 11, 2009 8:31 pm
by enthuzed
With a blue/grey interior they'd look great!

Posted: Wed Nov 11, 2009 9:01 pm
by Vulpes
enthuzed wrote:With a blue/grey interior they'd look great!
Why ? they are black :roll: Pic doesnt show colour well but they really are as black as Cathy Freeman. So comfortable. they will do until I can afford something better.

Posted: Thu Nov 12, 2009 6:34 am
by Lunacy
I think they look great. And IIRC not too much modding of the rails to get them to fit either.

Posted: Thu Nov 12, 2009 6:41 pm
by JDSTAZ45
Love the arm rest!!

You'll need a pipe and scarf as well while cruising down those country roads LOL

:pimp

Posted: Thu Nov 12, 2009 10:59 pm
by jk
yeah don't know that you need armrests with the worlds tallest console but retrim them in a tan? leather to match the rest because the shape looks great.

Posted: Fri Nov 13, 2009 9:53 am
by groupAralliart
What happened to the original seats? they were great?

Posted: Sat Nov 14, 2009 12:58 pm
by enthuzed
Yeah, didn't they have the "magic" touch?

Posted: Mon Nov 16, 2009 9:32 pm
by Vulpes
Yes original seats looked great and are stored but I didnt like the fact that they were too hard. Fitting them was easy yes. I just cut the mounting brackets off a pair of old seats. Ground the mounting brackets off the Subaru seats and re-welded the old brakcets onto the subie rails. they bolted straight in. To be honest I didnt realise they had the folding arm rest when I bought them. Still they are incredibly comfortable and the look pretty smick in there with the black console. Incidently Mal those short shifters from the US are amazing. Very smooth and a very short action. thanks for the tip.

Posted: Mon Nov 16, 2009 9:45 pm
by enthuzed
Vulpes wrote:Yes original seats looked great and are stored but I didnt like the fact that they were too hard.
Hmm, the leather ones are, and get worse as they deteriorate. I'll be using the rails from my very crappy leather ones for my raceseats from the rally car. Then they can at least be adjusted to suit my short arse instead of fixed at the "6 foot plus big-bloke" position.

Posted: Tue Nov 17, 2009 9:16 pm
by Vulpes
I have put the leather ones back in. they just look so much better and I sat a little too high in the subaru seats.

Posted: Wed Nov 18, 2009 10:43 pm
by fugazi
Is there room for lowering the original-seats or?
I'm one of those 6'+(?) (190cm) guys... and using a helmet on a trackday is not even close to possible...

Posted: Thu Nov 19, 2009 6:26 am
by MrBishi
V - you may need to consider a retrim (or partial retrim). My leather seats were hard and had shrunk to feel like trampolines. A retrim made them look better, but also felt 11ty times better. Now rate as a comfy seat.