sparco sidemount help!.
 

can anyone give me any tips or has anyone fitted bucket seat sidemounts to a 04/newage impreza.im racking my brains wondering how theyre going to fit in!. many thanks in advance, pete.

no one got any ideas?.any advise would be greatly apreciated,thanks ,pete.

I have sparco side mounts in my classic. The mountings are almost the same for a newage i am sure. I got an old set of seats from a car that was being scrapped and reomved the subframes from them. I then looked at how i was going to attach the seats to the subframes. I decided that if i kept the sliding mechanism that the seat was going to sit too high.

I cut of the four points from the subframes that fix to the floor pan of the car and then made up some flat bar to suit the bottoms of the side mounts and then welded on the four mounting points to the end of the flat bar.

Hope this helps.

Paul.

thanks g7prs,thats a great help,will give it a try!.

OMP do a subframe that bolt straight in. you then just bolt the side mounts to the subframe. It fits the classic and newage. Not cutting or welding required. Bolt in and forget.

http://www.scoob.co.uk/rebuild/scoobyfloor1.jpg

http://www.scoob.co.uk/rebuild/scoobyfloor4.jpg

OMP SEAT SUBFRAMES SUBARU IMPREZA WRX STi TURBO 2001- on eBay (end time 13-Jul-09 11:30:46 BST)

Ive got sparco S-light "prodrive" seats in my 04 blob. Got the side mounts and frame from GPR at silverstone. They had the side mounts in stock but had to get the frames from abroad..

Is the sub frame Necessary? Cant the side mounts be bolted directly to the chassis floor?

Anybody?

I think you would need to pick up on existing floor bolts to be 100% safe, as the seat needs to be 100% solid in its mounting and the existing points will be very strong whereas bolting through the floor would not be as strong unless it was reinforced. Also you would have no adjustment on the seat.

yup i was intending on using the existing holes, the side mounts have a variety of holes drilled into them as they are so was hoping some of these would line up over the existing ones, not bothered about adjustment as nobody drives the car apart from me, so am i correct in assuming i dont need the sub frame as long as the holes line up?

You'll need the subframes unless you weld two steel pipes across to be able to bolt the side mounts to something.

Take the existing seats out and you'll see what awkward angles the existing bolt holes sit at.

yup, i see what you mean, removed the drivers seat just now holes are nowhere near lining up :cry:

130 for sub frames as well fecking Dick Turpin highway robbing b,stards :mad:

has above theres no way side mounts will fit to exsiting holes.... one off three ways off doing it

get the above subframe

get a weld in subframe from demon tweeks where two metal bars and the side mounting... get the seat nice and low rally cars use these and seen a few in the project section(before you order a set if you do pm me has ive got some new unused)

or use the seat mounts off the standard rears which is what i did mate nice and simple

Daz what weight are the OMP subframes?? I bought some bride ones which seem quite heavey as they are 13lbs so what ever that works out in kilo's ???

Steve, I honestly can't remember but they were heavy duty and quite heavy.
I don't have them any more so can't weigh them.
You then had the added weight of the side mouts too. The lightest option would be to have bars welded in.

Thanks mate, Think i`ll just go for the bolted in subframe :thumb:

Stupid question Daz, but how would you fix your seating position i.e. forwards or backwards? Are there enough holes on the OMP base plate that I adjust where I want to fix my Cobra Side mounts onto? Im not going to use sliding rails just my Cobra side mount brackets fixed in one place.
Apologies in advance if dumb question!

Holy cow thread resurrection master!

The side mounts on my sparco seats had various holes along the base of them to allow for the correct postion to be achieved.

OK thanks. :)
So all I need to get is the above omp subframe base plate and my Cobra side mounts should just attach on top of it?

They should do yes. If you look at daz's second picture you can see the side mounts attached on the drivers side.