Different seats in a Festiva

[SimonTuffGuy]

FWIW, Corbeau makes factory Festiva mounts. I believe from what Wil has said, they mount to the 88-89 areas and he had to cut his set because of the seatbelts.

Personally, I'd remove the stock pieces and seatbelts and run harnesses or stock belts from behind the ash tray in the rear.

Simon

[oxbrain]

I've been looking at the corbeau clubman and forza seats since before I even got the festy.

Now I just need the $300 per seat.

[IdealSociety]

cheap racing seats available at your local JY,

Pontiac Fiero 84-85 have dual speaker hedrests, 86-88 dont...

heres mine installed with one seat cover off because they were were from a tan interior (didnt wanna gut my good grey interior 85GT)

[aithanmier]

not too bad looking, i think that the speakers would drive me crazy though...i like to thimp my system, not blow my ears out. :wink:

[4cylDreadnaught]

A dude that used to live 2 houses down from me wired in his CB to the head rest speakers in his 85Fiero.


Man, I should have offerd him 50$ for the seats when he junked it (royale FUBAR'ing of the engine & tranny while street racing)

[Arnie]

so are you guys having brackets made up and mounting them up to the sliders that come on the aftermarket seat? Are you having to remove certain parts of the seat first? I have a set of WRX seats I want to put in my Festiva. Is it enough to stop by some decent welder, give him the seats, the Festiva and say "have at it, son!"?

help a noob out! ops:

[Roboskittle]

I wouldnt exactly tell him to have at it. He could weld them to the roof. LOL. I would say pull out your factory seats take those along with the Racing seats or whatever and tell him that you want a mount fabricated to the specs of the factory seats. He should be able to hook you up.

[Arnie]

thanks!

I've never had mounts made for seats, and I haven't really messed with an OEM seat. Would the mounts that a shop would make bolt onto the existing frame underneath the seat, in my case, the WRX seat? Or would they remove a certain amount of the seat rails or sliders and then fab new mounting tabs to whats left?

[Arnie]

Okay, what about simply drilling new holes in the floorpan to match the WRX seat bracket holes then sealing them? the stock holes are just some kinda large sealed captive nut, right? Anyone think this is an option? Or is it just so ghetto that even the poor Festiva deserves better?

[FestYboy]

cheep alternative

just went to the J/Y Monday and came across a 92ish EGT (BP engine) and i liked the way the seats held me so i picked them both up for $50. well all i wanted was the backs so on they went. All you need to do is remove the lower plastic cover and unbolt the WHOLE back adjustment bracket from the lower half. DO NOT try to reuse the stock unit as the EGT seat will not line up with the festy hardware, use the EGT unit as it is still attached to the seatback. when reinstalling the new seatbacks, take note that you can't use either the festy or EGT bolt that secures the inside (toward the center console) half of the back. for that i used left over engine bolts that matched the festy lower half thread size and the EGT plastic sliding washer (it's a crush fit). then once the EGT back is secured to the festy lower half, take the plastic cover and remove the black rubber pad on the inside along with the plastic tabs that hold it in place. this is for fitment purposes as the EGT spring are is slightly wider than the Festy's. you DO NOT have to remove the seat from the car to do this swap (I learned the hard way).

Total time to swap both seatbacks is about ONE hour taking your time. Total number of bolts/screws to remove/replace is 11 per seat (this includes the EGT seat as well). I can post pictures later.

next on the list of things to do is swap out the stock lower padding and cover material, when the weather turns warm again.

[hdfestiva67]

Seats

I used to work in a restoration shop, which by the way they suck, and I've seen them take the tracks off the bottom, put them on a diff model car seats and bolt em on. Only issue would be space between door and center of car. This is what I plan to do down the road and instead of a bench seat in the back, have 2 front seats with a center console for my prob. never passengers.

[festivaWES]

i got mine from a 93 protege similar to the 323 gtx seats in style cant wait until they go in. Will have to make new bracket of some sort. 45 for both seats

[mattswabb]

Anyone have pics of what they did to mount other seats in their Festiva?

[project b6t]

You don't even want to know what the hell I'm going through to mount my omp seat.. it just includes welding, drilling, cutting, and bending of the stock frame ops:

[mattswabb]

So basically you disassembled 2 cars, built a full cage, installed a b6t, installed a g25m-r, plumbed your intercooler, coil overs, wired everything and your seats are whats giving you a hard time?