Impreza RS seats into 1988 Subaru RX

[D3F0]

Hey everyone today I was able to successfully swap in 2000 Subaru Impreza RS seats into my RX.

I had to custom fabricate some new mounts to get the seat to bolt. I actually used a seat belt nut to bolt in the back

of the seats against the firewall.  

Above is a picture of the floor before I started welding up the front brackets.

I made the brackets out of some extra metal I had laying around

1x1 inch square tube and 16 gauge sheet metal.

Welded the nut into the backside of both pieces

Then mocked up how the seat would sit and welded these up

For the picture above I had to bend the bracket up so it could sit flush against the mount I welded to the floor.

The back mount I just used the existing mount for the seat rail the way it was and bolted that straight down to metal box 

I welded up on the floor.

 

The seats sit a little high but still very comfortable 

Everything is pretty straight but I am going to do some fine adjustments of everything eventually,

Another view from the back below.

I need to take some more pictures of the seat mounts when I am 100% finished the other side can use stock locations for 

mounting point just have to bend the tabs down and just screw the rear into the seat belt mount like i said previously.

This is great because now I can put a bunch of different seats into this car.

[bratman2]

Some color as my RS seats. I think they are 04 that I installed back late 05 or early 06 in my Brat. The RS seats are super comfortable. I know your going to like them!!

[colemanapp]

I did a similar seat upgrade with some 99 outback seats in my loyale. I ended up using the loyale rails and just bolting the new seat onto the rails, Was able to use stock seat belts and even moved the seat back an inch and half for more leg room. Seats are a great upgrade.

[D3F0]

Yea using the loyal rails is probably much easier and a great idea but due to all the 90s Subaru's seats I have decided to mod my floor for it haha. Also yes I have used them in a 1995 Impreza coupe i built. I like them a lot better than the duct tape specials that i previously had in this car.

[nncoolg]

I like the rear strut brace, does it protrude through the wheel arches and pickup the top strut mount some how, or is it just welded to the arches?

[D3F0]

It goes right through to mounts I even welded some extra flat stock metal to the mounts all due to rust. 

I built a truck frame into my rx 

That included making most of the mounts for the subframes and suspension from scratch. The towers were cut then renforced both 

inside and out

Even weled some thick flat stock into the mount

Did the same on both sides

Dont worry the trunk is the same style lol

I will start a thread once the full frame is done I have done about 80% of it.

This is a tease of what I am talking about I am gonna advise you to never try this 

 

The seat swap was one of the easier things I did on this car.

Also I know the welds are not too hot they are done with flux core and I taught a lot of my buddy's how to weld on this car.I redid and grinded a lot of welds already.

Edited January 28, 2016 by D3F0