Sparco seats, anybody using them, will they fit Options

[mike_the_man]

Hi all,

A friend of mine has a couple of Sparco seats for sale. They're the Speed models, I believe. Sparco Speeds

Does anybody have these seats? Will they fit in a teener? I'm assuming that I'd have to loose the back pad, which is ok.

So, would I need to get a custom bracket, or is there an adaptor that I can get. How can I get these seats in my car?

[campbellcj]

The second Pelican link above was one of my former cars where I installed some Corbeau Forza tubeframe seats using the stock bases and sliders. I'm 5'9 190lbs and pretty much at the "size limit" for this type of installation as well as the narrow race seat models. For me, headroom (w/ helmet) is bigger issue than leg or arm stretch. Anybody >6' probably starts to have both issues to worry about.

In my current 914 I used some really nice Cobra Suzuka kevlar seats and their alloy sidemount brackets, which are bolted directly to the floor. I cut out the floor crossbar and then reinforced the mount points with some additional steel. (I also had no center console or ebrake handle to work around.) Even with my average height I put the brackets at the lowest setting in the rear and one or two holes up in the front to get the right rake/tilt. The headroom and rigidity are both MUCH better with this installation.