Side mounted bucket seats - DW Rails

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Side mounted bucket seats - DW Rails

Postby Kev » Wed Apr 16, 2014 4:12 pm

Anyone managed to fit side mounted bucket seats with Driftworks rails. I thought I would be able to mount my OMP Seats but they are too wide. I need to look for an alternative...
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Re: Side mounted bucket seats - DW Rails

Postby Chaycore » Wed Apr 16, 2014 7:39 pm

whats too wide? the seats or the rails?
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Re: Side mounted bucket seats - DW Rails

Postby Kev » Thu Apr 17, 2014 9:28 am

The seat is too wide. I will need a seat with a base thats 385mm or thinner to fit in between the runners. Otherwise my head hits the roof as I'm too tall. Driftworks failed to mention this in their advert so I thought 395mm would be fine. They say 410mm will fit in their ad.
Not sure whether I should give up and get a bottom mounted seat.
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Re: Side mounted bucket seats - DW Rails

Postby Chaycore » Sat Apr 19, 2014 8:45 am

Had this issue before.. the design of the rails is pretty sh*t. From memory, James (who I bought the N2 off, cut and welded his rails so the right hand side sat an extra 3/4 inch out which allowed for the seat to drop inbetween the rails.
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Re: Side mounted bucket seats - DW Rails

Postby Kev » Sat Apr 19, 2014 3:49 pm

I think this is what I will do. Not a well thought out design at all really. Was hoping to avoid cutting up £150 of side mounts but needs must. It's been a real headache this week.
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Re: Side mounted bucket seats - DW Rails

Postby Bagpuss » Wed Apr 23, 2014 2:36 am

Keep us posted on your results, I've currently got the same issue and I'm stuck between trying out side mount rails or simply cutting out the crossmember and bolting a seat directly to the bottom of the car.
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Re: Side mounted bucket seats - DW Rails

Postby Kev » Mon Apr 28, 2014 2:14 pm

I fitted the drivers seat at the weekend. We did a fair bit of work on the bottom bolt holes to move everything wider by about 3-4 cm. On the tunnel side I cut the brackets under the slider and rewelded them about 1.5 cm closer to the exhaust tunnel. On the other side I elongated the front hole and at the rear extended the bracket width with a new hole to bring the mount 2 cm outwards. I welded the metal under the original metal to bring the whole mount up so the adjuster mechanism sits above the sill plastics.

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