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Old Nov 29, 2005 | 09:44 AM
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Default -Bought Sparco Evo for track car, what rails??--

Finally brought a new Sparco EVO for the track car, but am now needing rails ect for it.

The car is an 94 Integra, but I have read reviews on the Sparco setup that they don't line up very well.

So, am looking for suggestions on what to use and where to get them from. This is only for the drivers side BTW.

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Old Nov 29, 2005 | 09:46 AM
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Find a local race fab shop and have them build you a mount with a sparco slider - it will probably cost $200-$250 to have done, but its well worth it for a good seating position.
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Old Nov 29, 2005 | 09:59 AM
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Default Re: -Bought Sparco Evo for track car, what rails??-- (.RJ)

Thats what I did today, but looked at some of the work and was not very impressed for the cost. Hence my decision to go for some built and made for the car.

Thankyou though
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Old Nov 29, 2005 | 10:09 AM
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Find another shop

The off the shelf sparco stuff is terrible.
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Old Nov 29, 2005 | 10:35 AM
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Default Re: -Bought Sparco Evo for track car, what rails??-- (.RJ)

isn't OPM down in florida?

i'm sure they have a good solution.
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Old Nov 29, 2005 | 10:54 AM
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OPM is 30 minutes north of Atlanta
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Old Nov 29, 2005 | 12:33 PM
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Default Re: -Bought Sparco Evo for track car, what rails??-- (.RJ)

The memory fab vision knockoff rails are nice and mount low. I had the sparco universal base with sidemounts and it sucked fitment wise. With the low seating position rails... its 100% better.
http://www.memoryfab.com/detai...?id=3
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Old Nov 29, 2005 | 01:23 PM
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I just got the new VISION rails and love them. but I got the nicer ones then the ones in the photo above.

as said before the sparco stuff is crap.
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Old Nov 29, 2005 | 02:43 PM
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Default Re: -Bought Sparco Evo for track car, what rails??-- (.RJ)

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by .RJ &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">Find a local race fab shop and have them build you a mount with a sparco slider - it will probably cost $200-$250 to have done, but its well worth it for a good seating position.</TD></TR></TABLE>

Using the Sparco slider, will the seating position still be lower than stock?

Also, anyone have any recommendations of a good shop to do this in So Cal?
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Old Nov 29, 2005 | 04:50 PM
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<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by ChassisInnovations &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">Using the Sparco slider, will the seating position still be lower than stock?</TD></TR></TABLE>

Nope.
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Old Nov 29, 2005 | 05:40 PM
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<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by sscguy &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">

Nope.</TD></TR></TABLE>

It will. What you need to use is the sparco 'universal' slider (not the model specific one) and have it fabbed up with a custom seat base and have the side mounts modified for maximum clearance - at least, this is what piper motorsport did for me. I'd like it to be another 1-2" lower but its pretty damn good right now.
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Old Nov 29, 2005 | 05:58 PM
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Default Re: -Bought Sparco Evo for track car, what rails??-- (.RJ)

So, what you're saying is that if you use the Sparco sliders, but then custom modify everything else, in THAT situation it'll be lower I remember talking with somebody at Summit that used them and the seat was the same height as stock, but off to one side too much That was Sparco sliders and mounts, unmodified. That may have been the model-specific ones though, I'm not sure.
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Old Nov 29, 2005 | 06:05 PM
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Thats the model specific units... the univeral ones are very low and FIA approved also.
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Old Nov 29, 2005 | 08:09 PM
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Default Re: -Bought Sparco Evo for track car, what rails??-- (.RJ)

Gotcha. I was unaware. Why don't they use the universal ones for all applications? Fitment issues?
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