COMPILED - 80 Series Seat Swap Thread (7 Viewers)

[Brodie]

Apologies if this has been covered, but do the planted brackets work with a rear heater?

Yes, mine cleared it easily.

 

[nickolai]

Yes, mine cleared it easily.

Thanks, my golden loves the rear heat in winter

 

[CruiserDog]

Corbeau Sport black leather pre and post tuffy console swap mod. On modified corbeau double slider seat brackets. View attachment 1595277 View attachment 1595278 View attachment 1595279 View attachment 1595280

I'm looking to put the same seats in my HDJ81 and was wondering if you modified the brackets for more legroom. what did you do to achieve this?
also, would you recommend them over the stock seats?
just a tall dude looking for space lol

 

[RFB]

I'm looking to put the same seats in my HDJ81 and was wondering if you modified the brackets for more legroom. what did you do to achieve this?
also, would you recommend them over the stock seats?
just a tall dude looking for space lol

these gave me more headroom than than the OEM seats, I didnt have to mod them for more height as Im only 5"11" And I have puuled them already and swapped in custom made cerullo performance seats. not sure that helps you at all.

 

[CBeckFJ]

Anyone know the seat width between an 80 series and 100 series? I'm considering different seats and wanted to make sure what would fit

 

[mjosoba]

Anyone know the seat width between an 80 series and 100 series? I'm considering different seats and wanted to make sure what would fit

There was a thread a week or so back. No go on 100 seats.

 

[6894kevin]

Anyone know what the max width can be. I found a good deal on some cadallac seats with powerhear and lumber on both seats

 

[ChargedFZJ]

Anyone know what the max width can be. I found a good deal on some cadallac seats with powerhear and lumber on both seats

Probably wouldn’t go more than ~21” since it will hit the little cup holder on the center console. I put in BMW 7-Series seats with 21” tracks and had to lift the height about 1/2” to be able to close the door.

 

[TraiLex]

Seats from a ‘06 Toyota Solara. Perfect color match. The drivers seat is fully adjustable, passenger side is manual. loves them!!! View attachment 2112925

Also installed a steering wheel out of a Toyota Matrix. I don’t think i’ll be able to hookup the air bag though. But hey, myFJ60 never had one to begin with!

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Nice to keep it all Toyota

How much fab work was involved with the solara seats?

 

[leitev8]

CORBEAU Sport with Planted seat brackets.
I'm running a 1/2in spacer to raise them a little bit, they feel perfect to me.

 

[Ftbagkicker]

CORBEAU Sport with Planted seat brackets.
I'm running a 1/2in spacer to raise them a little bit, they feel perfect to me.

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Pretty much plug and play? Any odds and ends?

 

[leitev8]

Pretty much plug and play? Any odds and ends?

I deleted the rear heater a while ago, so idk if the bracket clears the heater.
The 1/2" spacer gives just enough clearance for the Corbeau slider lock bracket to lock/unlock the foward/backward mechanism.
Other than that, yes it is pretty much plug and play.

 

[corbs]

Are the seat mounts/holes in the LHD 80s in the same position as RHD 80s? I want to know if Planted brackets for a USDM/LHD will fit a RHD/JDM 80 and/or if USDM seats will just bolt in.

 

[Jurwin]

Has anybody put the 100 series or even 200 series seats in the 80?

 

[White Stripe]

Here are Lexus seats with heating and cooling...

 

[blahblahblah]

Here are Lexus seats with heating and cooling...

Looks good. Which Lexus did these come out of?

 

[swankstar]

Here are Lexus seats with heating and cooling...
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what Lexus? What year? How did the install go? What kind of adapting did you need to do? How much did you have to mess with wires? Separate power source?

they look great btw, are you happy with them?

 

[White Stripe]

what Lexus? What year? How did the install go? What kind of adapting did you need to do? How much did you have to mess with wires? Separate power source?

they look great btw, are you happy with them?

They are from a 2013 es350. The installation was difficult, it's all custom. Wiring was the toughest part. I had to make the seats work without a lexus body ecu. I'm happy with them. It's an extremely comfortable ride now. Driver fatigue is almost non existent. They slide back enough to fit a person thats roughly 6'5 or so to be comfortable. I have 2 full weekends into bracket fabrication. Wiring was very time consuming to figure out.

 

[polloelastico]

Found some pictures of the porsche seats out of a Boxster after I recovered them. View attachment 1597258

I'm also thinking about some Boxer seats. I've found an identical model as those, but in a kind of stone/puddy gray that looks (at least from photos) like it's super close to the factory gray in my 80. I'm wondering if the Planter base and some minor hammering would get me there with little guff-- or how did you mount them? Also, it would be great to know if the height was lower than the factory leather ones. I would prefer that and certainly don't want to be sitting up any higher. I assume these have the manual slider too?

Thanks,

 

[2fpower]

I'm also thinking about some Boxer seats. I've found an identical model as those, but in a kind of stone/puddy gray that looks (at least from photos) like it's super close to the factory gray in my 80. I'm wondering if the Planter base and some minor hammering would get me there with little guff-- or how did you mount them? Also, it would be great to know if the height was lower than the factory leather ones. I would prefer that and certainly don't want to be sitting up any higher. I assume these have the manual slider too?

Thanks,

Mine ended up slightly higher than stock. I think I could have lowered them maybe another 1/2 inch, my mount was not tight to the base. I am pretty sure I welded new legs onto the porsche track. It would be on my thread, official boost build thread.