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racing/bucket seats

Postby fez » Mon, 17 Dec 2012 10:59 +0000

Became the owner of a 92 eunos recently. absolutely love it. I was thinking about getting meself new seats for it so that I sit lower in the car, do racing seats lower the seating position at all?
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Re: racing/bucket seats

Postby rhysmate » Tue, 18 Dec 2012 10:49 +0000

you can cut foam out of the seat to lower it.. the standard ones i mean. there's loadsa walkthroughs on it if you google search it. its supposed to be a fairly handy job
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Re: racing/bucket seats

Postby scallan » Tue, 18 Dec 2012 11:41 +0000

I have sparco sprints bolted to standard runners lowered me
enough for a nicer seating position but after christmass im
going to buy brackets to lower them even more
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Re: racing/bucket seats

Postby fez » Tue, 18 Dec 2012 11:49 +0000

ah cool. Has anyone here done it? Is there something solid at the bottom so it doesn't sag more?
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Re: racing/bucket seats

Postby fez » Tue, 18 Dec 2012 12:35 +0000

scallan wrote:I have sparco sprints bolted to standard runners lowered me
enough for a nicer seating position but after christmass im
going to buy brackets to lower them even more


hmm, sounds tempting. How much do they lower on standard runners?
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Re: racing/bucket seats

Postby MX5Spares » Tue, 18 Dec 2012 1:22 +0000

We have 2 blue and black Reactive seats but you need to buy or make suitable rails as these were fitted to Honda originally.Not a big problem to make up apparently
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Re: racing/bucket seats

Postby james » Mon, 14 Jan 2013 7:56 +0000

Mine

Sparco Sprint
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JB Fabrication Bracket
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I am 6'4 and i could use 1/1.5cm more head room
i guess there is max 1cm tell the seat hits the floor with the JB Fabrication bracket

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Anything other than a sprint is questionable
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Re: racing/bucket seats

Postby fez » Tue, 29 Jan 2013 8:43 +0000

How awkward is it getting in and out with that seat?
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Re: racing/bucket seats

Postby andrew » Tue, 29 Jan 2013 4:13 +0000

I have a sprint in mine too. Its not that hard getting in/out and it makes a big difference to the driving fun
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Re: racing/bucket seats

Postby andrew » Tue, 29 Jan 2013 4:20 +0000

I have a sprint in mine too. Its not that hard getting in/out and it makes a big difference to the driving fun
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Re: racing/bucket seats

Postby scallan » Tue, 29 Jan 2013 4:28 +0000

fez wrote:How awkward is it getting in and out with that seat?


i have 2 sprints in mine only find it hard when i go get inot the passenger side
once you get used to them its like getting into standard seats :D
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Re: racing/bucket seats

Postby james » Tue, 19 Feb 2013 7:09 +0000

from 1 to 10, 4 or 5 cause the car is low
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