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hey guys i just bought matrix type r seats the sliders of course dont fit the holes to our factory mounts if anyone has installed racing seats please tell me how you made the brackets and sliders fit im extremely lost and need help bad because i dont want to the factory stuff back in

 
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umm,. buy brackets that fit our car.

 
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if you have the cash, take it to a local speedshop. they will probably have it done in less than an hour, and should only charge you about $30-$60.

or, see if you can drill holes in the sliders that it came with. if you can line up the holes and have it safely mounted, you should be in business.


david02civic: why would you reply with such useless information? the guy has a question, and here you are trying to be a smarta s s.

 
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you could try to drill or midify the brackets to fit our cars even if the breackets sit right and the holes dont line up then drill holes that line up as long as there drilled on a thick part of the metal . you dont want yer seat to rip out if you brake hard. or use the holes on the brackets and drill new holes in the car floor.

 
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this guy i know drilled a bunch of holes all in his floor. It worked, but it looks kinda shitty. As they say "measure twice, cut once." Ohh, and be careful, that guy i know missed drilling his fuel lines by less than an inch... so he says.

 
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i thought matrix had brackets for our cars... I wonder if other brackets (like the Tenzo ones) would fit on other seats...??

 
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to be honest, I think that we're getting seriously screwed.

I don't think anyone makes a perfect fitting bracket for ANY car.

they all say "May need to be modified: take seats to your local installer to have them professionally installed."

hrm. bishes!!


I want the tenzo seats!!! but, I'm too po' right now
paying for school sucks!

 
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Update: I bought the tenzo seats

but...they aren't coming with brackets.

I've been told that they won't fit on the stock brackets? It's coming with sliders, though.

Reality Check: you there? how did the install go?

 
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I just got recaro SRD's my garage has to modify my brackets to make it fit. But they also tried using the EK brackets n they are just a little bit off so he might try and use those instead. I;'ll have it installed by wed of next week pm me if u need any info.
-cal

 
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I got corbeau cr1 seats and my brackets bolted right up. Dont know why you guys are having problems. My seats took like 30 minutes to install and take out stock seats.

 
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1siksivik: dood, did you get brackets with your seats?

I'm not getting brackets.

I am trying to reuse the stock brackets.


CivicGoh: when the seats come in, I'll PM you for help! Thanks!

 
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yup go to groupbuycenter.com and i got my seats and brackets and all the hardware for 975 and free s/h. my seats are so comfy. i took a trip to daytona and my butt felt good the whole way. then b4 i took a trip to orlando in my stock seats my butt was hurting and sore. i love my seats. corbeau

 
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yeah, but that's using an aftermarket bracket

I'm talking about using STOCK brackets.

You're talking about using aftermarket brackets...which is what I think we need, because we apparently can't use the stock brackets.

 
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I heard all u have to do is drill some where if your not using the brackets. Not sure where though.

 
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that's what I heard, too.

actually, I was sent pictures of where you have to drill...but FlyRiceRacer02 and RedDragon333 say you can't use the stock brackets, because the width of the sliders on the tenzo seats is different than the width of the sliders on the stock seats?
(by width of sliders, I mean distance apart).

hrm...I guess I'll just see what happens when I get the seats!

 
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dont do drilling..

go to optauto.com or mmrusa.com and spend the money and get brackets made for our car with universal sliders...

best way to go..

 
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thanks neonimpact!

optauto has the brackets for $30 each...a decent price.

MMRUSA has them with sliders for $130. ouch.


I was quoted $150 for JUST the brackets!!!! ouch!

I think I'll be hitting up options auto salon for the brackets.

thanks again NeonImpact! I didn't even think to check optauto!

 
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I bought actual Tenzo-R brackets for the Tenzo seat. Seat isn't installed anymore but it fit fairly well. Don't know why you didn't buy Tenzo brackets meant to fit 01+ civics.

 
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if you're refferring to me, read the entire thread.

 
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I know you're trying to resuse the stock brackets, I did read the enitre thread, if it's that much of a pain I was mainly suggesting to be patient, save up and buy them down the road, it's not worth screwing your car up.

 
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hehhe I got the Recaros Installed now! heheh sooooo nice ahah soo comfortable u can rip corners n u dun move at all ahah! I luv them soo much ahha. Well my garage used stock EK base n sliders and made some small mods like adding some stuff here n tehre n welding. Looks awesome, i'll have pix up soon. And on a side note theres a really cool story behind the seats. eheh Im in vancouver canada and no one in town has these seats for sure because they were taken from a mitsubishi lancer evo 4 in japan! ehheh for some reason that made me feel really happy hahaha i dunno why