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Wanted: Recaro adaptor rails

Postby Bernard » Fri Feb 19, 2010 10:50 pm

Chancing my arm here but I don't suppose anyone has a set for sale?
I contacted auction-tokyo about getting a set in from Japan but it's working out very expensive.
From what I can gather there are two types that (probably) do the job, these & these.
I was quoted £300 to get a set of the first type delivered, that's £100 for the rails and £200 between fees & postage!

The proper rails would be a neater job but at that price I'm inclined towards getting some kind of bracket made up instead.

Here's a pic of the seats,
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Re: Wanted: Recaro adaptor rails

Postby Sebastian » Sat Feb 20, 2010 12:13 am

i think you should post this on the modified car forums . the likes of DTD , manic or even octane.ie might solve your problem :|
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Re: Wanted: Recaro adaptor rails

Postby jayod12b » Sat Feb 20, 2010 12:14 am

From what I can gather there are two types that (probably) do the job, these & these.
I was quoted £300 to get a set of the first type delivered, that's £100 for the rails and £200 between fees & postage!



Mite be able to help you out bernard and make you up some sort of bracket instead of you paying those mad prices
What kind of bracket you after?
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Re: Wanted: Recaro adaptor rails

Postby Bernard » Sat Feb 20, 2010 12:25 am

I'm not 100% but I found this: http://www.cat.nildram.co.uk/files/Subframes/
There's a PDF with drawings of the frame.

Cheers by the way, any help would be appreciated. It's a shame having the seats sitting there doing nothing.
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Re: Wanted: Recaro adaptor rails

Postby Bernard » Sat Feb 20, 2010 12:50 am

Here's a pic of the underside.
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These brackets attach to the rails, I wonder if something similar would work to fit them to the FTO instead of fabricating a whole subframe?
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Re: Wanted: Recaro adaptor rails

Postby Dragonheart » Sat Feb 20, 2010 5:41 pm

I imagine that making brackets would be a lot cheaper than the outrageous shipping costs that company are charging. The PDF is a pretty detailed fabrication manual, so it should hopefully fit the FTO. If the addititon of brackets would fit though then it would be a lot easier, cheaper, and possibly a safer option.
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Re: Wanted: Recaro adaptor rails

Postby jayod12b » Sat Feb 20, 2010 8:31 pm

Bernard wrote:I'm not 100% but I found this: http://www.cat.nildram.co.uk/files/Subframes/
There's a PDF with drawings of the frame.

Cheers by the way, any help would be appreciated. It's a shame having the seats sitting there doing nothing.



There pretty good instruction alrite id say i could work from whats there,
The recaro seats would be fixed onto this frame and then bolt directly to the floor thats rite?
Bernard wrote:Here's a pic of the underside.
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These brackets attach to the rails, I wonder if something similar would work to fit them to the FTO instead of fabricating a whole subframe?
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Id nearly want to have the car and seats to make up a special bracket.

Maybe someone local could do this for easily enough
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Re: Wanted: Recaro adaptor rails

Postby colm_mcm » Sat Feb 20, 2010 9:40 pm

Maybe I'm missing something here, but how difficult would it be to mount Recaros on the original FTO rails?
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Re: Wanted: Recaro adaptor rails

Postby Bernard » Sat Feb 20, 2010 9:44 pm

I took my seat out and had a look at the underside, the FTO rails are completely different.
I'm sure it could be done but any way you look at it some fabrication would be needed.
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Re: Wanted: Recaro adaptor rails

Postby Kace » Sat Feb 20, 2010 9:49 pm

Wow - how much did the seats set you back, they look great !!
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Re: Wanted: Recaro adaptor rails

Postby Bernard » Sat Feb 20, 2010 9:52 pm

I got them for €400.
They came out of an Evo9 with only 30,000KM on the clock, this one.
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Re: Wanted: Recaro adaptor rails

Postby Dragonheart » Sun Feb 21, 2010 12:27 am

colm_mcm wrote:Maybe I'm missing something here, but how difficult would it be to mount Recaros on the original FTO rails?


Different measurements and all. Look very close but out by about 15-30mm. Even my rails are a totally different set up to the standard FTO rails.
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Re: Wanted: Recaro adaptor rails

Postby gt94 » Thu Mar 25, 2010 1:58 am

they look well nice bernard make mine look very old now :cry:

found this they must have made them at some stage,i reckon the pics are wrong though.
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Re: Wanted: Recaro adaptor rails

Postby CJ » Thu Mar 25, 2010 1:50 pm

Bernard, hows progress with the subframes coming along?

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Re: Wanted: Recaro adaptor rails

Postby Bernard » Thu Mar 25, 2010 1:54 pm

Jay's looking after them for me, shouldn't be long now.
It's things like this that really bring the forum into it's own :smt023
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Re: Wanted: Recaro adaptor rails

Postby ek9 » Mon Jun 14, 2010 10:46 am

Any luck with the rails bernard? Tempted to get a set of evo 4 or 7 recaros for my own. :wink:
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Re: Wanted: Recaro adaptor rails

Postby Bernard » Mon Jun 14, 2010 10:50 am

It's a work in progress...watch this space.
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Re: Wanted: Recaro adaptor rails

Postby Bernard » Thu Feb 10, 2011 8:16 pm

Well, it took a while but the seats are finally in.

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Re: Wanted: Recaro adaptor rails

Postby CJ » Thu Feb 10, 2011 8:31 pm

They look great - stock in fact.

How do you find them compared to the standard seats? A tight fit no doubt!

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Re: Wanted: Recaro adaptor rails

Postby Bernard » Thu Feb 10, 2011 8:43 pm

CJ wrote: A tight fit no doubt!


The seats or me in them?
No matter, the answer to both is Yes :wink:

I only got the car back last night and spent the better part of today swapping belt buckles from the old seats.
Tomorrow will be the real test but initial reactions are good, they're very supportive.
There's a little less headroom but it's liveable (just).
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Re: Wanted: Recaro adaptor rails

Postby gfalls » Fri Feb 11, 2011 10:24 am

They look the business.. :smt003
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Re: Wanted: Recaro adaptor rails

Postby TopCat » Fri Feb 11, 2011 11:37 am

Looks savage. Glad you managed to get them in at last. :nwor
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Re: Wanted: Recaro adaptor rails

Postby johntony » Fri Feb 11, 2011 3:22 pm

they look sweet
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Re: Wanted: Recaro adaptor rails

Postby Muad_dib77 » Sat Feb 12, 2011 12:11 pm

Pure win.. love em..
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Re: Wanted: Recaro adaptor rails

Postby Myfeckin FTO » Sat Feb 12, 2011 7:54 pm

Very tasty indeed - great mod - I'm not really a fan of the OE FTO seats - those Recaros are a fantasic improvement.
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