Bleach

The seats are 1991 Honda CRX si. The car is a 1982 280ZX 2+2
This install will be the same on 2-seater Z-cars.

I used the ZX seat rails. The rails hold the seat belt so that solves the problem of custom mounting those should I have used other rails.

Remove the seats (14mm) and remove the rails from the bottom of the 280ZX seats. Remove and discard the wire going between the two locks on the sliders. The outside rails that do not have the seatbelt or slider adjuster are the first to work on. Drill out the two rivits holding the 'lock' plate down. Throw out the plate. This will make the outside rails slide with no locking position. The inside rails' lock will be plenty. Also, there are clearance problems with the seats should you try to maintain both locks.

Drill a new hole in the front (or rear) of the rail that has 12" centers. Pic two, #1 mark shows the new hole drilled in the other rail.

Pic 1: Passenger seat installed. Now that I knew what to do, I took pics

Pic 2: (1) new hole drilled 12 inches from the rear mounting hole. The Datsun spacing is 12.5 inches. (2) after removing the wire that connects here, cut off the tab that sticks up. This tab will cause clearance problems under the seat. (lower pic) 1" copper spacer cut in half. This goes under the mounting bolt on the front of both seats

Pic 3: 1/2 inch spacer under front bolts, installed. This spacer goes on both sides on the front of the rail. I put two washers under the rear bolt on all rails. That is about 1/8 inch spacing.

Pic 4: Lines point to areas that were pounded in with a hammer for some additional clearance for the adjuster arm to move.

Pic 5: Seats Installed

skittle

thats a great mod... now if i get some i'll just get the seats reapulstered first... quick question will this work for the S30's??

Skully

good work...i hope those are confy on your ride to Vancouver...

nismo619

right on bleach !!! i got a spare set of seats out of my 81 280zx and now i will just have to find some honda crx si seats... also great work on the pictures... that sure helps out alot of us who might be blond like me lol

Bleach

Take a seat out of your 280ZX and see if it bolts into your 240Z... question answered. I really dont' have time to do that right now.

hoov100

for the zx seat in a z, it wont fit, different mounting positions.

lww

I put the Scat Pro-Car seats from my 280ZX into my 240Z, but it required a custom adapter to mount them. They're quite a bit wider than the stock S30 seats.

veyenyl

It will fit. I put those seats in my old 240Z.

Steves1979280zx

But Z seats fit in a zx or atleast a 79zx.

Purty S130

Nicely done. The seats are awesome compared to the old buckets, I dont feel like im sittin in the front seat of my grandmas lincoln anymore.

Bleach

oh ya, these seats are really nice. They are just the style I wanted; I bought them on eBay and paid a premium price for them last summer. I lost the bid on a couple other sets like it but I eventually got what I wanted!

sometimes you don't get what you want right away but be persistant and keep trying. You will succeed.

Purty S130

I looked for mine on there for almost a year. Its always great when people list hard to find stuff for pickup only. They always go for half of the price, and you get your item in less than a week.

Also, I talked the guy that sells the leather covers for these seats on ebay. Right now he only sells the ones with the crx logo on them, but he told me that around July he should have them without the logo. They may not be real leather, but it would be interesting to see what they look like.

280gty

...i'm thinking about transplanting a CRX engine in my 280zx...

Carl's Z

iluvJDM

Hey I was wondering? If the CRX seats fit in our Zs, then does this mean we can buy bucket seats that were made for CRXs and swap those in too? Like Sparcos, Recaros?

jfairladyz

If they're meant to bolt onto the factory CRX seat rails then making them fit into the Z would be the same. But most aftermarket seats are wider then the OEM seats due to the side bolsters. The Z isn't known for having much room for a wide seat.

KTM200-280zxt

Well if your going to buy aftermarket seats like that you mine as well get ones that already fit.

iluvJDM

Hey bleach, once you cut the locks off the rails will you ever be able to put the Oringinal ZX seats back in or no? And I noticed my CRX seats dont have a roller bar do yours?

iluvJDM

Well, looks like im not going to have those shiny new honda seats in my Z. After 2hrs of work I finally go to mount the rails and they are totally diffrerent heights!!! Turns out they werent dam Si seats afterall!!! Just regular ones!!! Dam all that work for nothing!!! oh well now without a front seat my car is lighter I guess lol...

Bleach

I gave away the original seats so no, I won't be mounting them back in there. I could re-use these modified seat rails and they will bolt right to stock 280ZX seats... the slider lock is completely gone on one side but the ZX seat will still slide forward and back just like the CRX seat does now.

jaromgi

I command you thread, LIVE AGAIN!

Would the seats from a normal CRX work? I found one in the local junkyard, and they look substantially similar to the ones in your car, but I am not sure if it is a CRX si or just a regular CRX. I don't want to go through the trouble of pulling them and paying for them only to find out they don't work.

as people have stated, searching for CRX is pretty hard on this forum, and they weren't mentioned here:

https://www.zdriver.com/forums/240z-280zxt-s30-s130-tech-tips-275/where-what-seats-can-i-get-my-z-19918/

If the answer is really obvious feel free to laugh. I make no claims to knowing anything.

FricFrac

I think the si is just the package - the seat bolt patterns are more likely than not to be the same. You should be good to go.