New seats

[freshtiva]

I had a $60 credit at pic N pull for some items I had returned. Didnt know what to use it for. I scrounged around the yard for about an hour looking at Mazda and tracers etc. Then I found me some seats for a festiva. $14.99 each. They need some cleaning but they arent in bad shape. They even have a pocket on the seat back to stash your playboys in. Also found one aspire mud flap to do a elcamino1 upgrade ( the other one was broke ) and a good timing belt cover. Still have a $20 credit at Pic N pull so I have an excuse to go back.

[freshtiva]

[25Horseplay]

What are the seats out of?

[gothguydante]

nice i need to find me one my driver side slide lever is broke and it stinks cause i don't always have the seat in the same position

[freshtiva]

1994 aspire

[KingFish]

Holy up-grades Festiva man! Fresh I thought you were a purist? Aspire seats? 13" rims? What next? BP swap and a AWD conversion?

Ohh, next one makes 300 post!! Do I get a cookie or what?

[freshtiva]

^ Wow, your right, I hadnt even noticed , thanks for telling me. I must have caught something at the PNP. I feel dirty now.

[packrat427]

WOW .. those seats look great !! nice find .

I want to do the elcamino1 mod with the Aspire guards also .

[GenevaDirt]

did you see if they bolt up yet? I am putting Prelude seats in mine and it has turned into a lot of work with these ones.....but thats another story

[freshtiva]

Looks like a little modding on the rear inside anchors unless I change out the lower tracks. Dont really want to drill out the rivets for that though so I might make an adapter bracket. I dont think they are too far off. Might be a different story when I go to put them in. For now I dont really have a car to put them in. All my other seats are good except in Jesse and its got brown interior. Might just do the mod and put them aside till I need them.

[joebreck117]

My seats are from an earlier Aspire too...
did the lower track swap to make them fit

[KingFish]

^ Wow, your right, I hadnt even noticed , thanks for telling me. I must have caught something at the PNP. I feel dirty now.

:laughing3::laughing3::laughing3::laughing3:

[freshtiva]

Got the aspire seats festiva ready today. I found out I only had to change the inside track for it to work.

You could probably make the aspire track work like they are with a little modding. You would mount them like the festiva seats on the 88-89 festiva. You would just have to bend the front mounting hole some and enlongate the rear hole and remove a hold pin towards the front of the track. Difference in the aspire and festiva tracks below


Install the gliders after some cleaning and regreasing



Festiva inside track on and the aspire track off



You have to drill out a rivet to get the tracks off. The rivet acts as a stop so the seats wont slide off of the tracks. I replaced the rivet with a rounded screw head and nut.



The outside track on the aspire is about an inch longer than the festiva outside track. I didnt want to replace both tracks. Im not sure I have the spare gliders. I just added a spacer to compensate during install.

[freshtiva]

Aspire seat in the parts festiva



Longer bolt and spacer to compensate for longer aspire track. Ill probably use a black less noticable space when I install for good.

[freshtiva]

All done, took more time than I figured. Always does. The seats are ready to go in a festiva. I did find the other seat gliders. Ill use them next time. I might take the seats to be professionally cleaned. Anyways, all in a days work at the ranch, not to mention the new glass for the swoopy mirrors ( $12 )and the new tune up parts for Redford. Oh I love the smell of a festiva tune up in the morning !! It makes me feel alive !! I thought it was professional swap on the seats, even if no one else says so.