Custom Seat Brackets...

[ProjectCB7]

Here's the deal. Being the moron that I am, the other day I was cleaning out the panda for the Harrisburg show and I thought..."Hey, I'll try this." so I brought down my CRX seat from my room. I unbolted the stock seat and just placed the Si seat in it's place. I knew the brackets wouldn't work at all but I just wanted to see what the demensions of the seat in the Accord were. Well it surprisingly only sits a tiny bit lower than the stock Accord seat (I thought I'd be on the floor) and it fits perfectly even with the massive side bolsters. I I got outsude the car and looked at what it looked like from outside. It looked rad as shit. I liked seeing the hole headrest instead of my *** 1 piecer.

So, now my problem is this. I'd love to have 2 front CRX buckets in the panda. Either 88/89 or 90/91...I don't much care. Having dual CRX Si seats would be hot in that car. But both seats are completely different. The Accord seat is side mount...the CRX seat is flat bottom mount. So basically what I'd need is the top area that goes into the seat from the CRX and then the lower half that gopes onto the car form the CB7 chassis bracket. Now i'm definately not going to weld jack...but would a shop do that for me or anything?

Thanks for any input!!!

[Slateboy]

I was going to make a DIY on this, but here's a quick overveiw:

Fact: I have Tenzo R seats and no brackets.

Problem: I couldn't find a working bracket.

Here's the quick overview:

First I took an air-driven cutting wheel and cut the Accord seats off their sliders. It's not easy. I cheated and used a band saw to cut through the majority of the heavy metal. The brackets look like they're just riveted down, but there are also tackwelds that you cant see. However, if you cut the steel away, and slice off the tackweld points and rivets, you come away with a sliding assembly.

Now I installed the empty sliders in my car and measured the distance between the center of one, to the center of the other. This plays as an empty canvas to mount any type of seat on.

Then I measured the distance of the center of the bolts on the Tenzo seat. I can't remember without looking, but let's just say they were 2 and 1/2 inches difference from the distance of the sliders from eachother.

I went to the local big hardware store, and picked up some welding steel. It is a long flat piece of steel that is easy to work with. I subtracted the distance of the seat bolts from the total distance between the two sliders. Divided that in half. Then drilled two holes in the welding steel this distance apart. For this equation, it would be 1 and 1/4. I did this four times for each seat. This creates a piece of steel that makes up for the difference between the width of the seat mounting bolts, and the sliding assembly.

I then measured the lenthwise distance of the bolts and drilled two holes in each slider this distance from eachother. The metal brackets made of welding steel then bolted onto the seats, then into the slider assembly.

This effectively, when done with properly hardened bolts serves as a safe way to DIY brackets to fit any application.

[ProjectCB7]

wow!

Any pics of this diy? If you have some send them to importtuner9@msn.com!!!

How much would it be to even get an actual shop to do this for you?

[Jarrett]

If you don't care too much about adding an inch or so of height to the seat you could have a welding shop weld a custom adapter to the top of the CB7 brackets. Shouldn't cost but around $60 or so.