Ok so i picked up some rsx seats for my da. Obviously they didn't fit. I could only mount them with two screws front inner and rear outer screw.So i had these ideas on how to mount them properly Did a search and haven't seen anyone doing this on the da. I've seen the dc thread about it but there was welding involved. I had these different ideas on how to weld the extentions to rsx brackets so i can mount them to the proper locatio. But even to begin with i didn't like the way rsx seats with rsx rails sat in my car. They seemed to be sat too high.Than fintally i looked everything over and decided to swap the rails on rsx with my da. There was butchering involved so if someone doesn't like it maybe throw better ideas. Will be happy to see them.
Anyways, i took the rails of my da seats which was pretty easy i won't even say how since it's pretty self explanatory.

This is the way rsx seats originally didn't line up




I started taking apart rsx seat. Pics pretty much explain everything. There are plastic clips on the bottom of the seat that hold the skin of the seat. Pop those out and pull the foam up. Refer to pics.





Now lets start the project. Basically you have to drill out the rivots that hold the rsx seat to its frame. Those were the ones that took most of my time. The rivots took forever to come out. Few of them i grounded off and punched them out, other ones were even impossible to reach. So i had use the jig saw. Pics pretty much show what had to be done.





Once you've done them all on both sides, this is what the seat should look like. The riovts on the outer side were much easier to take out.


This is where more butchering comes in. You have to hammer down the end of the inner corner of the frame of the seat. This has to be done in order for the seat to sit lower. Once you done hammering it and sort of alligned the rest of the rail with it (hammer down the front of the inner rail) measure the distance from the back end of the seat. Make sure this is the same distance on the next seat you will be doing.



Next thing place the inner da rail to it and redrill the holes. Reuse the one on the front just make it bigger for the diameter of the scews you use.

At the end of the rail you will have to redrill a new hole to allign it with the hole in the frame. Once you there you will know what i mean.


Shave off this piece just a little bit for the srping on the da rail.

Drill a new hole at the end of the rail as was mentionned above.

Mount the da rail to rsx seat with the screws on each end.


On the outer side.Make the hole where the screw goes a bit bigger by stretching it with a pry bar. Takes two seconds. Mount one scew at the location that is shown on the pic.Mark the location for the second scew right next to the right of it. You see that little ear, that's where it will go. Drill the hole. Mount the screw. Now you have rails on both sides. I actually missed the point here, you have to measure the distance for the second screw in order so your outer rail will sit on the same level with your inner rail. Just allign the two ends and mark the hole. Also when you mounted everything, make sure the base of the seat from outer rear to inner rear and outer front to inner front is the same as the base in the car.



Start putting the seat back together. The reversed procedure of what was done at the beginning. There will be two screws that won't allign, leave those out.



Mount the seat in the car. You're done. When you put all the plastic covers, no one sees that you butchered inside in order to make it fit. But than again if anyone has better ideas throw them in.





As to the passenger seat, it's exactly the same idea. It was just much easier to take out the rivots as they were more accessible. Once you will take the seat apart and you have done the driver's seat you will know what to do. Make sure you reconnect the wire on the moving mechanism, make it tight as it was on da so your seat will slide back and forward.


Modified by Groove_D at 10:42 PM 2/19/2006

 

nice write up...wish i had them in my DA

 

i have an idea vacuum your car man, good job on the seats though, but im too tall to have rsx seats in any car but an rsx.

 

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I made them sit exactly on the same level as the da seats.

Oh and yea, i've been too busy lately and it's winter and it's so cold outside. I'll vacuum it once it gets warmer

 

What center consol is that??? And where can I get one for my DA??? I wish everyday, that I had a cupholder, and a place to stash my CD case!! Those seats look great in there BTW!!

 

It's an aftermarket arm rest i bought online. I had to cut it up too so it sits lower as originally it was sitting too high. But yea, it's convenient as hell. Cup holder is essential.

 

is there any cup holders that will drop right into a da?

 

Well, the arm rest is made for da. It's aftermarket. What you do is you cut a bit on the bottom and redrill the holes. You still need to drill the holes in da center console in order to mount it.

 

so i need to cut it so the holes line up then bolt it up?

 

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Is that a box of Durex condoms? Guess you broke them seats in right, eh?


Modified by tegG2 at 4:33 PM 2/19/2006

 

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You are referring to the arm rest right? Well you don't need to cut but it will sit way too high as for my liking. You cut about 3 cm on each side of the arm rest on the bottom. Drill a hole in each conner and than drill the holes in your center console accordingly so you can mount it. 4 holes in total. 2 on each side.

 

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Well after i took the pic i saw that, was too lazy to retake one Condoms under your seat it's like a first aid kit in your car. A must have.

 

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Quoted for truth.

Nice how to. I wish I wasnt so tall for those seats.
Your car is clean compared to mine seeing some ******* spilt a box of cookie crisp in my car last night.

 

great write up

 

awesome write-up! I am buying a set of EP3 seats tonight for my DA... any chance if you know if the install would be the same? The seats look VERY similar, except mine will be suede But the RSX seats are tight as hell too.

 

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I would have to look at the seat man. I'm prettty sure that it would be the same idea. Mind my way of doing that, you can just weld on the extensions on the braackets and drill the new holes. I just wanted to avoid the welding since i can't do it at home. And the seat would have been sitted to high anyways.

I don't know how many times i can repeat that. You guys are not reading what i typed. The part where i use the hammer is to bring the height of the seat down. That's why the seat sits on the same level as my da seat. Please read what i type.

Thanks for the good words though.

 

To the people who asked me about the arm rest.

I got it of this website http://www.husco.com/
I don't see my arm rest on their page, you have to call them or email them and ask for the model R6 which is for 90-93 integra. They had them in different colors.

 

nice write up!

 

I have that same arm rest.

 

yeah, they are definately too high, i picked mine up, and took my stock ones out, and set the ep3's in and sat on them, my head almost hit the roof (I'm 6'4"), so I think i am gonna go ahead and try to make the passgenger side fit first, and then from there go with the driver, cuz if I mess up, I want to be able to drive it home at least, lol.

 

Thats cool man. I wish i still had my DA.

 

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I started the passenger seat actually first. For the same idea as you said. You have to have your spare da driver's seat still in case you need to go somewhere. I just made a write up on the second one.

 

when hammering the frame of the seat down, do you only hammer the inside (as towards the center console of the car), or inside of the frame as in where the rails mount?

 

It doesn't matter just hammer it so you can bring the height down. As long as the surface is levelled and lower, you will redrill and allign the hole anyways. On the drivers seat i hammered it towards the outside (door side).

 

that is nice