I'm planning to get a set of Sparco Torino seats for my 89 civic DX and i've heard sparco don't make rails for EF's if they don't what have people done to put them in the EF hatches.??????

 

recaro does and my friend has a set for sale

 

From doing a SRD in my car this weekend, i can tell you how it works. Recaro supplies you with a bracket that mounts to the new Recaro seat. It has 6 screws that ot bolts to the seat with. To slide the seat back and forth in the car, you have to use the stock sliders off your current honda seat. You remove them both from the car, and on the rail that bolts to the side of the stock seat (vs. the other one, which bolts to the bottom of the stock seat and requires no modification) you have to grind off the 45 deg bracket that allows the slider to bolt to the side of the seat, so essentially you have to make both sliders look the same, totally flat on top. Then you must drill corresponding holes in the one you just grinded so it will bolt to the recaro bracket. Get everything together, without tightening the bolts from the honda sliders to the recaro brackets, put it in the car and bolt the honda sliders to the mounting points of your car. From there, tighten the bolts from the sliders to the recaro bracket, and enjoy



-Todd

(PS- Sparcos = Recaros = )

 

Sparco part # 00500/954 for the left, 00500/955 for the right.

PS Sparco: Recaro: Have you ever had a Sparco seat?

 

Yeah i dont like em

Edit- Actually ill take that back, do like the corsa evo, but im not about to spend 800+ on one, just to have the same comfort and support that i can get from a $450 recaro. Im on my 2nd SRD (one in my EM one in my ED) and for the price point of a recaro vs a sparco the recaro wins out in build quality and comfort, IMO of course.

-Todd


[Modified by GymkhanaGTI, 7:13 PM 3/10/2002]

 

Hey GymkhanaGTI, how did you take all the sound deadening material out? I have a CRX and its a pain to remove it.

 

what colour are ur friends and where is he from and how much? i'm planning to buy a set of Torino's this week.

 

It doesn't look from that picture that he did take it out, it just looks like it's painted white. We used a paint stripping gun, it worked very well. It actually seemed to work better if the ambient temperature was fairly cool, the tarry stuff came out like peeling wallpaper. We tried a different spot a few months later when it was warm out, and it was like bubble gum, couldn't get it out at all.

 

sparco makes sliders for the CRX-Civic

 

these are for the 89 civic sliders right??