As a few of you know i recently bought some R32 GTR seats for the old mera, and progress has now started with the first seat actually going into the car (at last), unfortunately no pictures as of yet as i'm not taking any till the second is in the car which should be tomorrow if all goes well
As a little update R32 seats have been done into the N15 in the past and apparently the upgrade into that is just changing the mount slightly and they bolt straight in, Well.... being the N16 and it being a pain in the ass to buy any other part out of a car and actually get it to fit this is the same case with these seats, because the mounts on the skyline are sooooo different to the N16 mounting points this is where the first problem hit, N16 seat rails are both the same height on the seat, where the skyline is not, one is higher than the other, and also the N16 rails are slightly wider than the skyline as well coming to the second problem, had a good few days of testing and brain racking to be able to figure out a way to do this we couldn't work out a way to weld the rails on and then just bang them in as the width of the rails was less than a inch in it, so what we have had to do is create a new mounting point using stupidly strong steel and also play around with the mounts, also the seats sit slightly lower as well than the standard seats but isn't stupidly low where you just can't see at all.
But all this has finally come to a success the first seat is now in the car and is solid and moves backwards and forwards as well so MOT time will be fine, unfortunately i've had to have a bit of carpet cut away, but i'm going to grab some off a scrapyard mera in a few days time and attempt to make a peice of carpet to cover the gaps and also a bit of the new mounting plate, but this isn't really a massive rush at the moment as it's still a long time before the shows start again
Will post up the photo's tomorrow as long as the second one is done but can defiantly confirm that GTR seats WILL fit into the N16 with enough will power to not give up during the process or throw them out the window
As a little update R32 seats have been done into the N15 in the past and apparently the upgrade into that is just changing the mount slightly and they bolt straight in, Well.... being the N16 and it being a pain in the ass to buy any other part out of a car and actually get it to fit this is the same case with these seats, because the mounts on the skyline are sooooo different to the N16 mounting points this is where the first problem hit, N16 seat rails are both the same height on the seat, where the skyline is not, one is higher than the other, and also the N16 rails are slightly wider than the skyline as well coming to the second problem, had a good few days of testing and brain racking to be able to figure out a way to do this we couldn't work out a way to weld the rails on and then just bang them in as the width of the rails was less than a inch in it, so what we have had to do is create a new mounting point using stupidly strong steel and also play around with the mounts, also the seats sit slightly lower as well than the standard seats but isn't stupidly low where you just can't see at all.
But all this has finally come to a success the first seat is now in the car and is solid and moves backwards and forwards as well so MOT time will be fine, unfortunately i've had to have a bit of carpet cut away, but i'm going to grab some off a scrapyard mera in a few days time and attempt to make a peice of carpet to cover the gaps and also a bit of the new mounting plate, but this isn't really a massive rush at the moment as it's still a long time before the shows start again
Will post up the photo's tomorrow as long as the second one is done but can defiantly confirm that GTR seats WILL fit into the N16 with enough will power to not give up during the process or throw them out the window
