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Hi, I am a new Daihatsu owner, I hate a YRV TURBO and currently stripping my interior (only the drivers seat to remove now), which is up in the classified ads section on here. I was wondering if anyone knows where I can get a set of fixed bucket seats and frames which will fit or do i have to fab my own frames to mount the seats?
I am also looking at replacing the door glass for perspex. If anyone has done this any info on this (good or bad reviews) would be appreciated.
Cheers
Dan
Will need to be a custom made
Will need to be a custom made mounts, or perhaps modify the existing seat frame.
You should not use perspex for windows, perspex shatters into many sharp fragments. It needs to be polycarbonate.
Plastics4performance will make up one-off polycarbonate windows, but you need to send your original glass to be copied. The weight saving isn't huge though for the cost.
You'd be looking at around £400-500 for full set, to save about 10kg. (polycarbonate weighs about half the amount of the factory glass)
Have you removed the tar sound deadening on the floorpan? It's a hell of a job to get all of it and the residue off, but the weight saving is about 15kg.
Good to know, cheers.
No, not removed it, pulled at it but it wouldn't move so figured I'd leave it, didn't look to be that much weight but as I can't feel the weight I wouldn't know. I've removed over 90kg of weight so far which aint bad for free performance
I think i'll leave the windows then as this just don't seem worth it when I can spend this on power mods and see much more improvement bhp/tonne wise. Was trying to lower the centre of gravity too before going down the lowering springs road.
Cheers for the info on perspex, I wont be going down this route now.
Guess i'm gonna have to get a new M|IG Welder (great excuse to give the wife and it is my 30th this month lol) and fab my own subframe as I'm selling the originals with the seats.
Cheers again for the reply, appreciated.
If you use a blow torch or
If you use a blow torch or heat gun on the tar then it can be scrapped off quite easily. But it does leave behind residue which is best removed with some petrol or thinners.
Sometimes a tap on the floorpan with a hammer is enough to break off large chunks in one go. I had to use both combinations on the GTti.
I have read on the internet that laying dry ice on the floorpan is the best as it makes it very britle and does chip off cleanly.
A little vid i did...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y5-rH09ee7Y
And someone else using the hammer method!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xDfiBEK_29U
Mine once painted and with the cage, looks so much better painting a bare floorpan
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tITFPNxh08U
My tailgate window is polycarbonate, but that's all i could afford at the time, I would like to buy the rest at some stage, but it's not a essential purchase at the moment!
You can also see the fixed frame I have for the seat, the original seat frame legs were cut off and welded onto square tubing, and the bucket seat side mounts bolt on.
Put my own Recaro seats in to
Put my own Recaro seats in to replace the originals over a year ago. Had to mod the recaro seat legs and use the legs I got off the original frames from the YRV to get things in position, even after that the seats were not level, and luckily DaihatsuDave helped me out with making up some spacers to get things right
The Recaros I used are originally from a Mitsubishi Evo 8, but were modified for a Toyota Glanza. Picked them up off E-bay. There are proper YRV aftermarket seat rails for Recaro but only seen them advertisied in Japan.
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