Seat lowering brackets/rails

[Ashikabi]

Had anyone seen and brackets or rails that will lower the stock seat? Obviously there are low rails for aftermarket seats but I like the stockers and I don't want to spend $400 on a seat(double that so they match) if I don't have to. There was a thread about this 2 years ago, about 20 pages long. There was no conclusion and the company developing the brackets are banned from the forum and don't seem to have a website. Another company does it by modifying the existing seat in house which isn't an option due to distance. So anyone know anything?

[Shady195]

What you mentioned are all that exists. If you're looking to sit lower you will need to get an aftermarket seat or figure out how to modify the stock one yourself.

[Ashikabi]

Originally Posted by Shady195

What you mentioned are all that exists. If you're looking to sit lower you will need to get an aftermarket seat or figure out how to modify the stock one yourself.

I suspected as much. I was hoping Google was just failing and stone obscure shop was selling these in an alley somewhere. :-(

Any suggestions on low seats/rails on the cheaper side? I have no interest in spending $1000 for bride fabric

[Shady195]

Originally Posted by Ashikabi

I suspected as much. I was hoping Google was just failing and stone obscure shop was selling these in an alley somewhere. :-(

Any suggestions on low seats/rails on the cheaper side? I have no interest in spending $1000 for bride fabric

Depends on what you want.

I personally would not cheap out on a major component of safety. Get an FIA Approved Seat, Harness and get a proper harness bar

Realistically you're going to be spending ~$1500 to do it properly IMO.

However, you can get seat brackets for our cars from various places in the $100-200 dollar range. Theres also plenty of non FIA approved seats that may or may not kill you for ~$300 bucks. Even a good harness setup is only around ~$200. If you don't feel like properly mounting the harness you can forgo the harness bar and bolt everything to your floor pan.

There are plenty of people that run cheap seats, improperly mounted harnesses etc.. that have never had an issue, that have crashed and been okay. I know quite a few friends who run NRG seats and have put them through their paces and things have been fine.

However, thats not a risk I'm willing to take nor would I advise you to either. Either way I hope the information helps.

[Ashikabi]

Originally Posted by Shady195

Depends on what you want.

I personally would not cheap out on a major component of safety. Get an FIA Approved Seat, Harness and get a proper harness bar

Realistically you're going to be spending ~$1500 to do it properly IMO.

However, you can get seat brackets for our cars from various places in the $100-200 dollar range. Theres also plenty of non FIA approved seats that may or may not kill you for ~$300 bucks. Even a good harness setup is only around ~$200. If you don't feel like properly mounting the harness you can forgo the harness bar and bolt everything to your floor pan.

There are plenty of people that run cheap seats, improperly mounted harnesses etc.. that have never had an issue, that have crashed and been okay. I know quite a few friends who run NRG seats and have put them through their paces and things have been fine.

However, thats not a risk I'm willing to take nor would I advise you to either. Either way I hope the information helps.

I don't plan on cheaping out, I just don't want to pay for a name. I did a ton of looking yesterday and it looks like nicer seats cost about $1000 each although there are some FIA approved ones for as low as $350. I don't want a harness(not yet anyways) so I really didn't want fixed back buckets but I had a short conversation with Evasive and discovered that all side mounted seats are fixed back(why? I dunno). So if I want to go low, I have to get fixed back and try to figure out how to still use my 3pt seat belt thru the hole in the side assuming I can't modify the existing seat. I also discovered other than the odd few "cheap" buckets, all brands are about the same price wise. I was always under the impression that Bride was wildly over priced but they aren't really much different from Status, Omp, Sparco, Recaro, etc(all Corbeau seats are bottom mount FYI). I will look into modifying my seat and post back here when I figure out what I'm doing so the next tall guy has an idea what needs done without remaking this thread