Anyone here install bucket seats directly to the seat base? If so, was it hard to get to the rear mounting bolts? I plan on mounting my sparco bucket directly to the seat base, but i can imagine that it'll be hard to screw in the inside rear bolt due to the inability of the seat to slide forward or bend forward. Any tips or tricks?

PS. anyone know of any slider/seat base combo like buddy club/bride etc that work w/ sparco side mounted seats? When i try to mount my sparco side mounts to the sparco sliders, the seat has a lot of play....one of my contacts at sparco explained that the sliders weren't meant to work w/ the side mounts, only bottom mount seats.

 

Yes, my seats are bolted to non-sliding rails.

The guy who was fabbing them up managed to get them in there so that the mounting locations are still accessible. However, we also discussed what to do if that didn't happen. Our plan was to ream out the inside rear mount location (the only difficult one) and then to just use a stud attached to the seat rail. We would then just go under the car and attach a locknut.

As I say, it worked out that we could get the seats in such that this was not necessary. But I'm using Recaro SPG XLs, rather than Sparco.

 

Thanks for your input, i think i'll just figure it out when i get to that point. I'm thinking that maybe i can access the bolt from above w/ a bunch of extensions and a wobble head socket. But if that doesn't work, i'm not sure what else to do. But i'll probably think of something when it comes down to that point.