Help me ID these seats...

[kenz240z]

I picked these seats up at the salvage yard this afternoon. Found them in a '77 Porche 924, but they are not the original seats from that car. They did not use the stock seat mounts, instead there were holes drilled through the floor to mount these seats in the Porsche.

I've searched the photo gallery and also online, but haven't found anything exactly like these. They say "TURBO" beneath the head rest. There are two dials on the side, one for lumbar support and the other pulls in the upper side supports. There is also an adjustable thigh support (moves up & down).

I set them in my project 240Z and it looks like they will work, although I'll probably have to cut out the stock seat supports. These should bolt right to the floor with a little work. They are comfy to sit in!

[Zs-ondabrain]

They Look like Honda Prelude seats. Late 80's early 90's? Or something from Recarro?

Dave

[Walter Moore]

I can't identify the seats, but I have read that the stock seat supports are necessary for the structure of the frame and should not be removed.

If you do bolt the new seats to the floor I strongly recommend that you re-enforce the floor first because the metal under the seats is very thin.

[mr.inline6er]

Yeah DO NOT cut the stock seat mounts unless you put some kind of reicforcement in their place. They are a very important structural part of the monocoque because they connect the inner rockers to the transmission tunnell, and also form an intersection with the frame rail that runs under the floor. If you do cut out the old ones and put new mounts in, make sure they are welded to the inner rocker, transmission tunnel, and the floor itself, do not just drill through the floor.

[Carl Beck]

I'd take the original seat mounting runners off the seats first. Turn the seat upside down, and see how the seat mounts are attached to the bottom of the seat frame.

The I'd run a flat steel plate about 2.5" wide and 1/8th inch thick - from the Right Front of the seat to the Left Front of the seat - mounting it where the original seat mounting runners were bolted, or riveted in place. Do the same at the rear of the seat.

Then you can mount the stock 240Z seat mounts/adjustors in their original positions to both the seat and the seat mounts in the floor of the car.

Many seats have a stud welded to the seat frame - then the seat mounts bolt to that. Some seats have a riveted mount - in which case you just drill the rivet out and replace it with a nut/bolt to mount the flat steel plate.

FWIW,

Carl B

[adamr]

I second what Carl says. I've done it that way. It's the easiest, best way. These seats may not sit at the height you desire. I had a set of Recaro's that sat a little high, but they were so awesome that I really didn't care.

Adamr

[Stickerman]

Mid 80's Subaru or Mitsubishi, I can't remember. 86ish Subaru XT comes to mind