Bucket seats

bridgey · Post by **bridgey** » Sat Jul 25, 2009 10:56 am

Does anybody in NZ know if universal brackets are available for after market bucket seats?

Lunacy · Post by **Lunacy** » Sat Jul 25, 2009 1:24 pm

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.

bridgey · Post by **bridgey** » Sat Jul 25, 2009 1:48 pm

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

OLD FART · Post by **OLD FART** » Sat Jul 25, 2009 2:12 pm

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

Lunacy · Post by **Lunacy** » Sat Jul 25, 2009 2:14 pm

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 :)

bridgey · Post by **bridgey** » Sat Jul 25, 2009 2:18 pm

i have some lemax le mans style seats

thrash · Post by **thrash** » Sat Jul 25, 2009 3:17 pm

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)

bridgey · Post by **bridgey** » Sat Jul 25, 2009 4:49 pm

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

RiceThief · Post by **RiceThief** » Sat Jul 25, 2009 4:55 pm

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.

bridgey · Post by **bridgey** » Sat Jul 25, 2009 4:57 pm

theyre bottom mounted, fitted the seats to factory rails and my head was on the roof

RiceThief · Post by **RiceThief** » Sat Jul 25, 2009 10:26 pm

Have you got pics of the bottom of the seat?

MainstreaM · Post by **MainstreaM** » Sun Jul 26, 2009 3:47 am

There not listed in their catalog but Corbeau has a bracket to fit the starion to their seats.

Kane

panda · Post by **panda** » Mon Jul 27, 2009 10:40 am

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.

bridgey · Post by **bridgey** » Mon Jul 27, 2009 2:33 pm

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?

panda · Post by **panda** » Mon Jul 27, 2009 4:10 pm

No, Starion are lower seats than Sigma.

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