Driver seat height problem? (Picture inside)

[ae86itb]

I just put a recaro seats on my S13!
The drive side seat is like 3 inches higher than stock seat and gives me very bad drive position...I am 6 feet and like only one inch away from the roof.....
I have tried to modifide the bracket but there is a bump on the floor which is the room for exhaust car.
I have asked around, the only way to lower the seat is mess with the floor, either cut or use a big hammer to ham the floor..and then lower the seat...Which I don't really want to do~
Anyone has the same problem and know how to solve it...Thanks first...
Jimmy

[Dousan_PG]

buy japanese seat rails
i sold some to one dood and he lovse it.
sits VERY low now..

or make custom rails
those are the 'easiest' ways to correct it


OR get rid of the slider and drill holes in the rail and bolt the seat directly to that. you wont be able to move the seat back and forth though

wedge rails SUCK. dont waste you time w/ that crap too.

[ae86itb]

Thanks man!
Can you get the right one for my S13?
I really need to lower the stupid seat for head clearance....
See the picture, Driver seat is like 3 inchs higher than passanger one.
BTW, Are you sure the Japanese rail can take care of the problem, becasue it seems the bump is on the way no matter what!!
Thanks for more help in advance...

[Dousan_PG]

i dont have access to them
i bought them from jspec WAAAAAAAAY Long time ago because back then we thought (both sam and i) bride and recaro rails are same. ends up they werent. so i ended up w/ a bride brix so i sold my recaro rails (driver and passenger) for cheap ($250) and they sit like stock (maybe lower?) on BOTH sides (US driver and passenger)
i sat in the driver seat over the hump..wow just like stock.


as far as getting some, you might check w/ importers or friends in japan.

i dont know where you can get any other then that. sorry!

[ae86itb]

Thanks!
I will give Sam a call later on today see if he can get it for me..
One more question, the Japanese rails are just bolt on right, or we need to mess with floor!!

[Dousan_PG]

Originally posted by ae86itb
Thanks!
I will give Sam a call later on today see if he can get it for me..
One more question, the Japanese rails are just bolt on right, or we need to mess with floor!!

i think 99% of the time you wont need to goof w/ the floor at all. should bolt right up

just ask sam if he can get/getting any of the floor rails he sold to aaron (me) a long time back...the ones we thought were for bride but actually were for recaro. i bought the pair from him...this was almost a 1-1.5 year ago

-aaron

[orange-grey]

I made adapters for the stock rails with steel L brackets. I had to move the seat left an inch in order to get it as low as stock, which kinda sucks. I'm tempted to just bolt the seat to the damn floor.

[curbsurfer]

i like to sit real low in my s13. i have recaros. even when i sit them on the floor without rails or brackets they are too high.
im probably going to cut the cat hump out and box the floorboard area to sit lower and have sliders. my exhaust doesnt run on that side anyways.

[ae86itb]

Thanks for the helps guys!
I was so lucky yesterday, I went to Motorex and they have the Bride seat bracket in stock for my S13 driver side, it also works on recaro.....
I got one and mount it on my car right when I came back to San Diego.
It lowers my seat back to around stock position, good enough for me.
It was sucks I had waited for one month for the stupid recaro bracket and rail, but they made only for short people....
I have OK drive position now.. Since I don't want mess around the floor, I think I should be satisfied on this position already!
Good luck for all you who like to sit low position, there is A LOT of work to do with the car....
Later~