S30TRBO Posted April 7, 2008 Share Posted April 7, 2008 (edited) These are 2005 350Z Enthusiast seats I picked up from Mike (mrpratt). Here is what happened: The ears off the stock 350Z seats were cut off. The stock 240Z lower seat rails were welded onto a piece of square tubing. The end result: I have to pull them back out and remove the stock 350Z seatbelt receiver and trim the rear bolts a tad so I can get the washers and nut on it. Once the vinyl sills go back in I may have to trim both outer pockets as they are pretty tight already. Edited May 19, 2009 by BRAAP Fixed broken image links. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Evan Purple240zt Posted April 7, 2008 Share Posted April 7, 2008 Nice. I have those in my 240sx. Very nice seats. Evan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jknc90 Posted April 8, 2008 Share Posted April 8, 2008 Thanks for the right-up, I've got a set of these sitting in my room that I haven't had a chance to install yet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
75s30 Posted April 8, 2008 Share Posted April 8, 2008 Thanks I was trying to figure out how you guys did it. Now to find a welder. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
simplZ Posted April 9, 2008 Share Posted April 9, 2008 if you don't mind answering, what did you pay for the seats, or better question, what is a good price to offer for a set of those. how tall are you, and how do you fit in them? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
S30TRBO Posted April 9, 2008 Author Share Posted April 9, 2008 if you don't mind answering, what did you pay for the seats, or better question, what is a good price to offer for a set of those. how tall are you, and how do you fit in them? I paid $250 for the seats and $120 to have the brackets made and welded. A much better deal than buying other seats that in some cases for one will cost more than what I have invested in it all!! Not to mention then you have to fab or in my case have someone fab the seat brackets. Plus I like the idea of keeping it Nissan. I am 6'2" and I fit pretty good (in my garage). If I ever end up having to wear a helmet it might be close and I may have to have the square tubing taken out and replaced with some flat stock to drop it down some. Thanks for the comments everyone! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
S30TRBO Posted May 21, 2009 Author Share Posted May 21, 2009 Pictures are back in the first post thanks to BRAAP for replacing the code!! Pics were NLA before because Putfile (now ebaumsworld.com) is gone. According to Wikipedia, Putfile was purchased by a company called ZVUE in 2008. ZVUE also owns a site called ebaumsworld.com. Also according to the Wikipedia article, ZVUE mismanaged Putfile, which may explain why the site went away. It looks like they're redirecting traffic to ebaumsworld.com, no notice and oh my account and pictures are gone. I guess that’s the price we pay for a free account. Now happily up on photobucket. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bart628 Posted May 21, 2009 Share Posted May 21, 2009 The fabrication and installation is really clean. I like how the seat height is about level with the door sill because of the square tubing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JDTIPPIT Posted May 22, 2009 Share Posted May 22, 2009 That looks great! Very nicely done my friend Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rbrick220 Posted February 26, 2013 Share Posted February 26, 2013 did you need to do any tunnel bashing? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saxofonist Posted January 27, 2017 Share Posted January 27, 2017 How did you get the rails apart? I am about to attempt your exact seat modification, but I can't seem to get the sliders off of the rails. Can you explain how you accomplished that feat? Much appreciated! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JSM Posted January 27, 2017 Share Posted January 27, 2017 (edited) Why do you have the plastic seat risers under the seat mounts and double nuts? Why not just eliminate them? Looks good otherwise. EDIT: Oh geese, 2009 thread sorry. Edited January 27, 2017 by JSM Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grannyknot Posted January 27, 2017 Share Posted January 27, 2017 That was 9yrs ago so you may not get a reply from the OP, to take apart the stock sliders you need to knock out the carriage bolts and there is a little tab that needs to be bent up or cut off, there is not much to it once you get it apart. The way the OP did it, it looks like he added a little more than an inch to the height to the bottom of the seat, you can just weld a bolt to the 350z slider at the front and a thin cross bar at the back and keep the head room. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aero Z Posted January 30, 2017 Share Posted January 30, 2017 I also did a writeup from when I did this. Very simple. Like mentioned above you don't (and probably dont want to) use all of the 350z rails. Just weld to the seat structure directly. http://forums.hybridz.org/topic/103970-another-350z-seat-install-for-tall-people/?do=findComment&comment=972398 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cable Posted June 9, 2020 Share Posted June 9, 2020 (edited) On 1/27/2017 at 2:48 PM, grannyknot said: That was 9yrs ago so you may not get a reply from the OP, to take apart the stock sliders you need to knock out the carriage bolts and there is a little tab that needs to be bent up or cut off, there is not much to it once you get it apart. The way the OP did it, it looks like he added a little more than an inch to the height to the bottom of the seat, you can just weld a bolt to the 350z slider at the front and a thin cross bar at the back and keep the head room. Another bump... Since I don't have my original S30 seats, thinking this is my best bet with my recently bought 350z seats. Almost done 12 point caging and tubbing my `75 S30. The suspension points for the 4 link and main hoop will cost some leg room as it is, but I needed something other than fiberglass/aluminum/plastic ridged race seats. Edited June 9, 2020 by Cable Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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