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[Foxy]

I'm sure there'll be a guide or thread somewhere but I couldn't find it...sorry Will the Motorsport seat fit to a standard rail/subframe? Any pointers gratefully received as it doesn't seem to be a straight swap.

[JG]

Eliot is your man on this one Poke Firthy

[PaulCP]

Stop faffing about and start driving it!

[siztenboots]

I've got the Lotus motorsport rails on mine , and they bolt to the side of the seat. Obviously you lose the adjustment

[fiveoclock]

I'm sure there'll be a guide or thread somewhere but I couldn't find it...sorry Will the Motorsport seat fit to a standard rail/subframe? Any pointers gratefully received as it doesn't seem to be a straight swap.

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Edited by fiveoclock, 03 February 2014 - 11:07 AM.

[Kieran McC]

www.billswebspace.com/Lotus6Pointharness.pdf

 

Try this it has the motorsport kit on the pdf

Edited by kieranmcc, 03 February 2014 - 03:09 PM.

[Foxy]

I've got the Lotus motorsport rails on mine , and they bolt to the side of the seat. Obviously you lose the adjustment

Thx. I need to retain the adjustment.

[Foxy]

Stop faffing about and start driving it!

Getting there! I removed half of Essex from the interior this weekend!

[Foxy]

 

I'm sure there'll be a guide or thread somewhere but I couldn't find it...sorry Will the Motorsport seat fit to a standard rail/subframe? Any pointers gratefully received as it doesn't seem to be a straight swap.

.

 

Mark?! 

[Foxy]

Eliot is your man on this one Poke Firthy

 

Have dropped him a PM

[Foxy]

www.billswebspace.com/Lotus6Pointharness.pdf

 

Try this it has the motorsport kit on the pdf

Thx ...but I need to retain the std rails.

[techieboy]

I think you'll need the relevant Lotus subframe for that seat. For seats that are all meant to bolt into the same holes on both cars, there's a shed load of grief trying to get any given seat, fit any given subframe and then fit any given car when not all of the matched parts are supplied.

[Foxy]

Ah, bollocks    It doesn't seem far away at all.

 

Lotus are bashtards...why can't they make these things easy!! 

[techieboy]

Lotus subframe is better anyway as the lap belt bolts are mounted in double shear and not single, as with the VX subframes. What seat have you actually got? One of their Exige Probax seats?

[Firthy]

Hi Foxy,

 

If you have a Recaro Apex (Lotus Motorsport) or Profi SPG (same seat dimension just different fabric)

 

You need the following......

 

FIA Approved Lotus Sport Recaro Seat kit with seat runners*

Part No. - ALS3V6043F

BLS3V6043F - RECARO seat - FIA approved
CLS3V0047F - seat bracket - left
CLS3V0048F - seat bracket - right
A079W4019F - spacers
AO75W1039Z - M8 bolts
AO75W3010Z - M8 nyloc nuts
AO75W4020Z - washer, M8x17x1.6, zinc, seat bracket to seat runner
A082B6057F - grommet 

 

Contact details below.....

 

[color=#000080;]Adrian Kent[/color][color=#000080;] – Motorsport Stores Controller
LOTUS RACING, Potash Lane, Hethel, Norwich, Norfolk, NR14 8EZ, England
T +44 (0) 1953 608980              akent@lotuscars.com[/color]
[color=#000000;]F +44 (0) 1953 608685[/color][color=#000080;]              www.lotuscars.com[/color]

[Foxy]

It's 5OCs old one. It's probax but from an Elise. 

 

What's all the double shear stuff?    From what I've gleaned the inner one is double shear and the outer one can be locked in position. I'm confuddled! 

 

What's to say a lotus subframe will fit in my vauxhall anyway!!

[Firthy]

Ahh okay different Seat

[Foxy]

Hi Foxy,

 

If you have a Recaro Apex (Lotus Motorsport) or Profi SPG (same seat dimension just different fabric)

 

You need the following......

 

FIA Approved Lotus Sport Recaro Seat kit with seat runners*

Part No. - ALS3V6043F

BLS3V6043F - RECARO seat - FIA approved
CLS3V0047F - seat bracket - left
CLS3V0048F - seat bracket - right
A079W4019F - spacers
AO75W1039Z - M8 bolts
AO75W3010Z - M8 nyloc nuts
AO75W4020Z - washer, M8x17x1.6, zinc, seat bracket to seat runner
A082B6057F - grommet 

 

Contact details below.....

 

[color=#000080;]Adrian Kent[/color][color=#000080;] – Motorsport Stores Controller
LOTUS RACING, Potash Lane, Hethel, Norwich, Norfolk, NR14 8EZ, England
T +44 (0) 1953 608980              akent@lotuscars.com[/color]
[color=#000000;]F +44 (0) 1953 608685[/color][color=#000080;]              www.lotuscars.com[/color]

Thanks Firthy!!

 

That looks expensive!! I'll drop Adrian a line  

[Foxy]

Ahh okay different Seat

LOL

 

The sticker on the bottom says - Express Plastics Ltd (same as VX I think) and Lotus Motorsport.

[Graeme Lambert]

AFAIK for a probax/Motorsport seat you'll want exige subframe