Finally got round to fitting the Corbeau Carreras to the R over the past few days and after doing the passenger side I'm slightly dissapointed at the moment.
After doing all my searches before I saw the options as buy some aftermarket ones that apparently make the seat too high or cut and shut the existing runners. Fortunately My Father in law is an excellent welder so I went for option 2.
The job sounded easy, remove seats, cut this weld that so we gave it 4hours per seat as an estimate and started Saturday morning. We spent the first 2 hours looking at it saying that's not going to work whilst he was winding me saying "What exactly did you read on the internet".
The runners had to be unbolted from the Nissan seats but when we put them in the car we saw each side was of a different design so it was not possible just to brace across and sit the seat on. The inside front needed to be extended 40mm and IIRC the front outside needed 20mm. The shape of the bulkhead bulges in all the wrong places too so there are limited options available.
Add to this the inside runner was 30mm higher and much scratching of heads ensued.
To cut a long story short, after 4 hours we came up with a solid design that would brace across the two runners so it would be self supporting and put the base 8mm above the OE runners for clearance of the mechanism.
The F-in-L made up the parts and we fitted them last night. With him being a perfectionist and wanting to get everything correct in all directions we took 4 hours to fit the parts. Once we fitted the passenger seat we found like everyone else's they are quite high up. Worse than that, if I do the driver's seat I thought my hands will catch on steering wheel. Also there is no room for a helmet now whilst seated in a proper driving position.
At that point we called it a night but when back at my garage, I noticed:
Given the constraints of the bulkhead, to have a sliding seat you could only get the seat down another inch at the back and next to nothing at the front whether you're Nismo, Bride or whoever else IF you use the standard mounting points. I could get a fixed seat nice and low but then only I could ever drive the car. For a road car this is not an option.
The seat is not as bad as it looks, my front pad on the Corbeau is 1" higher from the floor than the OE seats and given the pads the mounting difference is negligble. The seats are just bigger all round.
The Nissan seats do concave in the base but the foam is also half as thick. The front thigh pad on the Corbeau is 4" thick whilst on the OE seats its half that. I noticed the spring bracing underneath the seat that supports the foam could be cut out to bring the foam down two inches.
Another option is to dismantle the cover and cut the foam out (That I read someone else has done) but I'm not so keen on this as the seats might look funny and be much less comfy.
Final option is to sell the seats and buy a thiner lighter fixed back seat to make up for the 3Kg's my F-in-L added to the weight of the runners by making "sure its going no where" :roll:
Making the seat base go concave is my favourite option at the mo but other peoples thoughts are appreciated.
Cheers,
Jim
After doing all my searches before I saw the options as buy some aftermarket ones that apparently make the seat too high or cut and shut the existing runners. Fortunately My Father in law is an excellent welder so I went for option 2.
The job sounded easy, remove seats, cut this weld that so we gave it 4hours per seat as an estimate and started Saturday morning. We spent the first 2 hours looking at it saying that's not going to work whilst he was winding me saying "What exactly did you read on the internet".
The runners had to be unbolted from the Nissan seats but when we put them in the car we saw each side was of a different design so it was not possible just to brace across and sit the seat on. The inside front needed to be extended 40mm and IIRC the front outside needed 20mm. The shape of the bulkhead bulges in all the wrong places too so there are limited options available.
Add to this the inside runner was 30mm higher and much scratching of heads ensued.
To cut a long story short, after 4 hours we came up with a solid design that would brace across the two runners so it would be self supporting and put the base 8mm above the OE runners for clearance of the mechanism.
The F-in-L made up the parts and we fitted them last night. With him being a perfectionist and wanting to get everything correct in all directions we took 4 hours to fit the parts. Once we fitted the passenger seat we found like everyone else's they are quite high up. Worse than that, if I do the driver's seat I thought my hands will catch on steering wheel. Also there is no room for a helmet now whilst seated in a proper driving position.
At that point we called it a night but when back at my garage, I noticed:
Given the constraints of the bulkhead, to have a sliding seat you could only get the seat down another inch at the back and next to nothing at the front whether you're Nismo, Bride or whoever else IF you use the standard mounting points. I could get a fixed seat nice and low but then only I could ever drive the car. For a road car this is not an option.
The seat is not as bad as it looks, my front pad on the Corbeau is 1" higher from the floor than the OE seats and given the pads the mounting difference is negligble. The seats are just bigger all round.
The Nissan seats do concave in the base but the foam is also half as thick. The front thigh pad on the Corbeau is 4" thick whilst on the OE seats its half that. I noticed the spring bracing underneath the seat that supports the foam could be cut out to bring the foam down two inches.
Another option is to dismantle the cover and cut the foam out (That I read someone else has done) but I'm not so keen on this as the seats might look funny and be much less comfy.
Final option is to sell the seats and buy a thiner lighter fixed back seat to make up for the 3Kg's my F-in-L added to the weight of the runners by making "sure its going no where" :roll:
Making the seat base go concave is my favourite option at the mo but other peoples thoughts are appreciated.
Cheers,
Jim
