cant find new seat rails for an 28 280 anywhere?? help anybody?? wanted to get a bucket seats for pass and driver.. but cant find anybody that carrys seat rail for it... any help?

 

is this for a show car? ...do you need them to be new?

I'm trying to give away two used seats. They have rails

 

any pics?.. they dont have to be new... i just need seats.. haha

 

They are just stock seat rails with a brown handle on the slider and a brown seat belt clip.

like this


yes I have both sides to both seats. I assume you got a car that had the seats competely removed then?

 

your going to need to fabricate some brackets to make those rails work for your car... im pretty sure of it

 

What are we talking about here? Those are factory 1982 280ZX seat rails going in another 1982 280ZX, right? No fabrication at all.

 

he wants to put bucket seats on his 280ZX rails.. i know i had to fabricate brackets to get the rails to fit my recaros...

 

yea... want to put bucket seat on em... so i have to fabricate it rite??

 

so.. nobody else makes rail w/ there seats that fits rite on?

anybody.. brandname or no...

 

of course not. These are not late model cars. companies do not support them quite like that. You take stock 280ZX seat rails, and drill holes in them to fit whatever bucket seats you have. Once the 280ZX rails are on the seats, it all bolts right into the car. That way you don't have to drill or modify the car itself.
If your car has seats in it, you should already have the seat rails you need.

 

As I went to install my Recaros using the stock seat rails, unfortunately, the Recaro bolt holes are just a bit wider than the stock rail holes, such that it's directly over part of the rail itself. I would've used a crossbar to rebolt the holes wider, but because it lines up over the rail itself (the edge, not a drillable part), I wouldn't be able to actually get any bolts in there.

 

You could use a flat piece of steel over the top and then weld that to the seat rails then drill the holes through that piece of steel. Then where the rail (or probably before you weld on the new piece of steel) you can cut out a big enough section of the rail that will allow you fit a bolt in there.

 

So am I missing something?? The car all ready came with bucket seats from the factory. Right?? Did the later models come with a bench seat or something??? What am I missing, and what the hell is he talking about??

Bucket seats, the car has bucket seats from the factory