I am having a discussion with fellow ef'er about this issue.

I have myself removed seats from a 91 si and installed them into my 89 si without any mods and he is telling me its not possible, they would not fit.

does anyone know which seats are swappable between 88-91 without modification?



Modified by civhatch90 at 7:40 AM 9/20/2006

 

btw answer only if you have had experience with this issue, not is your friend told u or what ever

 

nobody knows?

 

I've always thought 88-89 had different rails than 90-91? Or is that only for the crx?

 

im talking about the crx i dont know about the civic though.

 

how many times must seat swapping in EF's be covered.If you search you will probably find your answer.

 

if you've personally done it yourself like you said you have and it worked, then why are you even on here asking us because you already know

 

Here is the Deal. All 88's had different rails then the 90-91. Some 89's had 90-91 rails and seatbelt in door. some did not. i ahve an 89 with seatblets and an 89 without. it is all about the date the car was made. i dont know the dates. it is possible to swap 91 seats in a 89 if they are the newer 89s. The 88 are guaranteed not to have seatblets in doors and have differnt rails. That is from my experience

 

For the crx, the 88 is the only one with different seat brackets/sliders, the 89-91 have 3 of the same holes in the floor, but the bolt hole closest to the center console in the rear is off by 4 inches compared to the 88. I know this from experience, and It's not a direct swap into an 88 crx unless it's a 88 seat, or you have the 88' seat bracket's/sliders mounted to the different seat.

 

Thanks for clearing that up!

 

i just took seats out of my 89 tried to put them in my 91 and the mounting holes will not line up cant do it looks like im buyinga new seat till i can get 2

 

I've had a 90 and a 91 Si, the seats swap over no problem. My friend has a 90 HF, and had to swap pans to get an 89 Si seat in (it may have been an 88, I haven't seen the old rails, we were told it was 89). I also have a set of 88 Si seats (:cough: for sale) that will not bolt in. I know someone else who bolted in 91 Si seats into his 89 Si.

So aside from the HF problem, which I'm not 100% on, 89-91 seats are interchangeable. Also 88 seats can be easily fit into a first gen CRX with slight modding.

I'm only talking about CRXs, don't know about civics.

 

Just pick up a sparco seat bracket for your car and mount whatever you want. There are two different part numbers for 91 and for earlier, so I'd assume that is a confirmation the rails are different.

 

So would this be a good rule of thumb?

"If you have an 89-91 civic/crx with the same seat belt location (i.e. door or pillar), then seats are intercheangable."

The 88's were just wierd in general, must be because they have Type R lca's.

 

this hole thing is weird, i guess 89 came with two different bolt patterns on the seats

 

This is a honda...anything can fit into anything .

 

88 has the different seat belt mounts the frame not the door..
so 88 bottoms only bolt on to 88's..

Top sections are swapable, between all the years..

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by hondaJDMimports &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">Here is the Deal. All 88's had different rails then the 90-91. Some 89's had 90-91 rails and seatbelt in door. some did not. i ahve an 89 with seatblets and an 89 without. it is all about the date the car was made. i dont know the dates. it is possible to swap 91 seats in a 89 if they are the newer 89s. The 88 are guaranteed not to have seatblets in doors and have differnt rails. That is from my experience </TD></TR></TABLE>

heres the REAL deal.

89 HF's only had carryovered the 88 seat belts for one extra year. thats why you encountered an 89 that are like the 88's.