Lowering stock seats - Type S

[dc4u]

yea like waggy said above...
'The DC5S seats are actually welded/rivoted to the rails'

i've been looking into this for a while now and have never been able to find a fix for the seats sitting so high...

Waggy... were you reading the thread where the seats were put into a da and the guy literally smashed the rails with a hammer to sit them lower?
i think ima try this when i get some time... cause im from newcastle and have no idea where or who would look into a job like this for me...

[Waggy]

Waggy... were you reading the thread where the seats were put into a da and the guy literally smashed the rails with a hammer to sit them lower?
i think ima try this when i get some time... cause im from newcastle and have no idea where or who would look into a job like this for me...

Yeah that's the one. He pretty much just takes a hammer to the bottom of the seat to get them to sit on the rails. Dunno about that....

[dc4u]

haha i really wana lower them so im guna take them somewhere... not sure where but...

any suggestions?

[Waggy]

No idea man, I live in Central Qld.

Did you end up going anywhere? How did it go?

[dc4u]

im getting my rear bar sprayed at a combined body workshop so i asked them to check it out for me...

they asked me to drop off my old seat rails and i was like meh... we'll see what happens.. they were pretty confident in modding the rails so i'll let you know the results when i pick them up tonight...

i'll try post pics aiight.

peace

[Waggy]

Please do, I'm interested to see how you went....

[dc4u]

PUCK!

Nothing was done to the seats but they did provide heaps of feedback (we probably already know this but i'll fill you in) - [These were to be put into a dc4 and attempt to be lowered as well.]

Anyways... basically his main issue was lowering the seats! he couldnt bolt on the old integra rails because the assembly was different! so what he said was that the only way to lower the seats is to find custom or aftermarket seat rails for the seats which are actually built to make the seat sit lower. These custom rails must have the same bolt assembly as the ones on the seats now! Either that or they could attempt to make a pair of custom rails HOWEVER... it could be very timely which = big bucks but they couldnt actually put a price to it at all because they dont know if they could be working on it for 2 hours or 2 days.

So my question to everyone is..... IS THERE A PAIR OF SEAT RAILS THAT WILL FIT ON THE TYPE S SEATS TO MAKE THEM SIT LOWER?

These are not the recaro dc5 seats!

[Philip Lee]

as i suggested previously, can you mount the stock seat on a piece of metal which is then bolted onto a lowering rail for DC5 recaro?

the top of the rail should be flat and i'm sure someone can custom make something to bolt the rail and seat together.

[Waggy]

That's a real shame.

No there isn't. No one makes lowering rails for the stock Type S seats - believe me I've searched. Looks like I'm going to have to buy DC5R Recaros or Bride Euros and bolt them in with a Type R SRS module.

I knew I should've bought an MPS3.....

[Waggy]

as i suggested previously, can you mount the stock seat on a piece of metal which is then bolted onto a lowering rail for DC5 recaro?

the top of the rail should be flat and i'm sure someone can custom make something to bolt the rail and seat together.

Never said it wasn't possible, however the mounting for the Type S seats is completely different then just the "bolt bottom of seat to rail" method that most people are used to. They aren't actually bolted to the rails, they are rivoted to a crossarm assembly that is used to lower or raise the seat with the knob on the side.

In order to remove the seats from the rail assembly, you actually need to drill out the rivots holding the seats to this frame, belt the shit out of the bottom of the seat and then bolt them to the rails (and then who knows how much this will lower them). It's a huge, time consuming and most likely irreversible job for an unknown benefit.

This is why no one makes rails for them (ie: you can't make rails for them).

[Philip Lee]

They aren't actually bolted to the rails, they are rivoted to a crossarm assembly that is used to lower or raise the seat with the knob on the side.

can you weld a piece of metal to that crossarm? which is then bolted onto the rail?

[Waggy]

I know exactly what you meant, I've thought the same thing.

What I am saying is, in order to "fit the holes" of the DC5S seat to the Recaro rail a massive butchering job is involved.

You cannot remove the DC5S seats from the rails without drilling out the rivots - and then you need to flatten the metal on the bottom of the seat - AND THEN you have to elongate holes etc on the seat/rails to match the rails/seat.

Sure, I guess it's possible, but this is pretty much permanent (which I don't like the idea of, especially when I eventually sell the car) and I have no idea how much this will do in achieving what we set out to do here - lower the seats.