so i had this idea yesterday...... in the fall i got this idea to pull the back seats out....not so smart cause now i kinda want them back, but its too late cause i sold them.....so heres the new plan, i have two momo seats recoverd in leather in the front the plan this spring is to buy two new racing seats for the front that recline and move the non reclining ones to the rear will this work? how hard will it be to bolt the seats into the back ????

 

2 or 4 door?

 

two door

 

extremely hard it is way to tall to fit right

 

so are you saying you have heard of other people tring this?

 

someone gimmi a hand here will my idea fly?

 

If you're talking about a bottom-mount, fixed bucket seat, like the Sparco Sprint, you're in for a very difficult job that I would not undertake.

Unless you're building a show car -- and you never intend to actually use the seats -- I wouldn't bother. I have a hard time believing any such solution will be safe enough to carry a passenger.

You'll have to fabricate structural bracing to attach the seat bases to the frame of the car, while figuring out how to maintain access to the fuel pump (remember, its under the OEM seat cushion). Furthermore, you'll lose the ability to fold either seatback down and you'll probably have to re-engineer the rear decklid that covers the rear hatch area.

Lastly, the angle of the seat back is nearly 90 degrees. So with the seats in an ergonomically safe orientation, a passenger will be sitting upright with his torso and head about a foot further forward than "normal". That means you or your front-seat passenger have to move your seat forward. Also, in a broad-side collision, I can see the rear seat passengers cracking their heads open against the B-pillar as their heads whip sideways.

Did I mention you'll have to incorporate a set of four-point harnesses as well?

In short, it's a bad idea all the way around and it will cost you a lot of money, time and effort to implement.

 

i dont care about the deck lid, and the fuel pump is right inbetween the two seats.....and the two seats not folding down doesnt bother me .....after all that would it be all that tough to fabricate a bracket to bolt them to the chasi?

 

stop asking, it would be unsafe and unless you have A LOT of money, it would look like shit. i dont mean to be mean here... but after a full (bad idea) lecture from dave it's pointless to keep asking.

to answer your question... yes it would

 

:doh: Consider the forces you're dealing with in a serious wreck. In a 65mph head-on collision, your "brackets" would have to restrain a 180lb passenger plus 20 to 30 lbs of seat against a deceleration force more than a hundred times the force of gravity. If the seat mount fails, that 180lb passenger and his seat are going to hurdle forward, right into the dash or out the windscreen. Worse yet, he'll smack into you in the process.

It's not like you're bolting the seats to an existing set of sliders that in turn bolt into the factory holes. You would have to build an entire sub-floor and figure out how to attach it the stock unibody. That means 1/4" flat bar steel and a lot of welding and cutting.

Even then, the ergonomics don't work to your advantage. It's a pain in the ass to get into the back seat of a DC Integra even with the stock seats..adding fixed bolsters and harnesses only makes it more difficult. Given the height differential, I'd bet you could barely fit the seats in once a sufficiently beefy subfloor was built. Also, all that welded flat bar will add a significant amount of weight.

As I said before, it's a bad idea.