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Old Sep 25, 2002 | 06:49 AM
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Default D.A.D. Race seats - Any good??

These seats are replicas of the Sparco Torinos and are fairly inexpensive. Anybody have any info on them??
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Old Sep 25, 2002 | 07:12 AM
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I was thinking about getting them the group buy is to good to pass up...and every company has to start some where

http://www.groupbuycenter.com/buy.asp?row_id=6950
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Old Sep 25, 2002 | 07:22 AM
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I ordered some on Monday. Seemed to be great people to work with. Shipped them out Monday afternoon, I should have them by friday. When I talked to someone who worked there they said that there was going to need to be a peice made so that their rails could fit with the stock brackets. Little fishy, but for 400 bucks for two, I didn't pass it up. I'll keep you posted on how I actually feel towards the comfort and look once I get them in. Anyone ahead of me and already have them?
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Old Sep 25, 2002 | 07:26 AM
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Please keep me posted! The price is for them is real nice but not sure how they would fit and so forth. I'm looking to put them in a 2000 Si. I recently grabbed a pair Del Sol seats but then came across these ones.
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Old Oct 6, 2002 | 06:17 PM
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update?
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Old Oct 6, 2002 | 06:28 PM
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they are going in on thursday of this week. i ordered them on monday, they were at my house the following thursday. Great help. Universal rails so i couldn't put them in myself, thats a bummer because im sure im going to get *** raped on the price of instal but oh well. for 400 bucks, they were worth it. i have been spraying them with hair spray for a while now to hold the color...i got black, i dont know about their other colors. so far so good, ill update with pictures when i can.
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Old Oct 6, 2002 | 06:52 PM
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when u do ...get them pics up
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Old Oct 6, 2002 | 06:59 PM
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will do
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Old Oct 6, 2002 | 08:29 PM
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I have a pair of those DND's....theyre good but the brackets didnt fit when i got mine so i cut the old ones off the old seats and made my own...took a while but otherwise the seats are fine...
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Old Oct 16, 2002 | 11:48 AM
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Sorry it has taken me such a long time to reply, my computer has been down for a couple and I just had a chance to upload the pictures. Either way I got to go home this past weekend and see how the seats worked out. I must say, I'm impressed. I ordered the seats on a Monday afternoon, and between Monday and Thursday when they arrived, I was in daily contact with the supplier. They came with universal brackets so I had to have someone weld some parts to make it fit, but it didn't seem to be a big deal, or that out of the ordinary to the person who did it, so it shouldn't be to weird for any other place to do it.
The total cost to have what is shown in the picture was $508.54 $400.00 for the seats, $58.54 for the shipping, and $50.00 for the welding and placement of the seats. All in all I’m really happy with the outcome. I think I got what I paid for, maybe more. Peace.





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Old Oct 16, 2002 | 11:48 AM
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Ah ****...I hate this computer, someone tell me what I did...
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Old Oct 16, 2002 | 11:57 AM
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They look nice!
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Old Oct 16, 2002 | 12:00 PM
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any crash testing done on these things ?

any certifications ?

and their webpage is ??
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Old Oct 16, 2002 | 01:32 PM
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bump for nice seats...

any crash testing done on these things ?

any certifications ?

and their webpage is ??
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Old Oct 16, 2002 | 01:44 PM
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something looks wrong, I think its the leather I dont know
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Old Oct 16, 2002 | 03:20 PM
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thanks fellas, i think for the money they are pretty nice.

they feel better than some of the "name brand" seats i have sat in. I know they haven't been sat in for a year or anything but as of now, they feel a lot better than the stock ones.

something looks wrong, I think its the leather I dont know
Hmmm, I dont know what you're talking about but they are supposed to look kinda like the sparco torinos so maybe if you look closely at both of them side by side you can find the diffence. Eh, either way they seem quality so far.

http://www.groupbuycenter.com/buy.asp?row_id=6950

Thats as close as a website as I can give you but I can promise you (from my experiances) that if you email them with your concerns they will be happy to email you and tell you what they know. Hope that helps you all.
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Old Oct 16, 2002 | 03:26 PM
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how r the side bolsters? look kinda flat and weak
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Old Oct 16, 2002 | 03:32 PM
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how r the side bolsters? look kinda flat and weak
Feel stock I guess...nothing about them feel cheap or crap made so I don't really know what to compare them too. I'm not going to say they are sparco/recaro quality, but I also didn't pay sparco price. But honestly everything feels great. I would tell you if I was dissapointed in them.
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Old Oct 16, 2002 | 03:35 PM
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race seat bolsters shouldnt feel stock.
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Old Oct 16, 2002 | 03:39 PM
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the bottom bolsters look like stock gti bolsters, but the back bolsters are nice and big....

gti...
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Old Oct 20, 2002 | 10:10 AM
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i WANTED to get these for awhile but the wordings turned me off, as did the tenzo's. I dunno, just don't want those damn cheap companies logo on my car...
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