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Old 10-03-2006, 09:25 PM
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Can anyone tell me if the seats from a 2001 Civic Si will fit into my '90 Civic Si?

I have some bum recliner levers on my seats, otherwise they're in good shape.
 
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Old 10-03-2006, 11:14 PM
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Sure...you can make them fit. I know you are going to have to swap the seat rails around and probably bend a mounting tab or two to get it all to line up, but it should work out in the end. I got some 92? prelude seats to fit into my 95 hatch.
 
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Old 10-04-2006, 12:31 PM
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yeha it can be done, you need to swap the bottom seat rails from your current seat, with the top rails from the new seats. there may be more to the process then just that, but that is the general idea of it...
 
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Old 10-04-2006, 06:12 PM
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yeha it can be done, you need to swap the bottom seat rails from your current seat, with the top rails from the new seats. there may be more to the process then just that, but that is the general idea of it...
Thats actually a lot of work to do it that way. You may be better off trying what dogmeat said.

Trust me....I just went through this with the seats in my 95 hatch. I was looking for more movement backwards (I'm 6'5") and I just ended up fabbing some brackets to "extend/re-locate" the seat track mounting points on the one side of the seat, this side had those dreaded rivets in it. The other side was easy...3 bolts held the track to the frame

But seperating the top half of the track from the bottom half?.....better get that air chisel handy for those rivets in the track's frame [sm=headbang.gif]
 
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Old 10-05-2006, 08:12 AM
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^ Good to know, i personally havent done it myself. i was reading a post on another forum that someone put about them swapping the seats. and that is how they explained that they did it, but they didn't get real indepth with it though
 
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Old 10-05-2006, 09:08 AM
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i have a 92 hatch and i put 97 lx seats in mine had to change everything including the recline brackets [:'(]
 
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Old 10-05-2006, 12:17 PM
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I had WRX seats in my 94 coupe....nothing a torch or sawzall couldn't fix
 
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