Bucket/Racing seats and harnesses

Submitted by jeffh on

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Hi,

I am looking to get bucket seats fitted into my sporty (96) and the only subframes i can buy are bolted to the floor can anybody give me any advise of how i can get some fitted into my truck whilst still keeping the car road legal,

many thanks for any replys

tom

Sat Comfortably

Submitted by assassin on

Whats the problem? locate the seats and mark the holes through the subframe onto the floor of the vehicle. Drill, bolt them down and use large washers underneath to spread the load of the nut through a larger area of the floor.

when you buy a bucket seat

Submitted by jeffh on

when you buy a bucket seat the only subframes that can be bought for them are desiged for sports cars where the seat is very low to the ground. in our case the seat needs to be higher to see out. this is where the problem lies. how can i get new bucket seats to fit to the existing subframe or if there is another way which is easier.

must emphasise again that the truck still has to be road legal

Personally (if the sporti

Submitted by Nev. K on

Personally (if the sporti subframe is not of use) I would make my own out of box section. This way you can line it up with the original boting points on the floor and the bolting points on the seat. You can either do this the easy way making it a solid mount with the chair where you want it, or use the runners from the old seats to make it ajustible.

Any veiws expresed in this thread by me are purely from my own experience, and (sometimes) falible memory. Hope my comments help, but please don't take them as gospel.

Any veiws expresed in this thread by me are purely from my own experience, and (sometimes) falible memory. Hope my comments help, but please don't take them as gospel.

Is the problem that the seat

Submitted by Nev. K on

Is the problem that the seat will be too low? If so does the Sporti seat unbolt from the fraim that does the sliding back and forth bit? The fourtrak does. If so bolt the buckets to the top of the original fraim. You may need to improvise some bolting points, but a little time and a welder ought to solve that one.

Any veiws expresed in this thread by me are purely from my own experience, and (sometimes) falible memory. Hope my comments help, but please don't take them as gospel.

Any veiws expresed in this thread by me are purely from my own experience, and (sometimes) falible memory. Hope my comments help, but please don't take them as gospel.