for those using an old car seat...

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I pulled the car seat from an old prelude. How do you guys mount it to a board and keep the sliders. My mounts are not flat so I'm not sure how to bolt it down to a board. Sorry if this is really noob :/
 
Place the seat up on a table or platform, and using a piece of cardboard, trace the shape of the seat sliders from the side. I had to make one for each side since they were not both the same. Then you can cut a piece of wood to match that shape and place the seat over the wood and bolt it right to that.

If the seat sliders have any metal that protrudes where the mounting areas are that will impede the seat matching up with the wood, it might need to be cut off. The seat I used was from an 09' Accord and it had to be trimmed slightly with an angle grinder, but a hacksaw would have worked if need be.
 
This really isn't a noob question, and for anyone who mounted a stock car seat who's pan isn't completely flat, I think they've all dealt with this problem.

The way I did it, is I measured the distance from each hole, then took a piece of cardboard and punched holes as a template. I put bolts through the cardboard and into the seat, being careful not to tear anything to make sure the template was correct. Once I got a good idea of where the holes were on the X and Y, I did modifications to the real frame. I used washers to pad any vertical differences between each mounting hole on the stock sliders. By the time I was done, it wasn't pretty, but the seat sat level, and I got to keep the functionality of the stock seat.

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The top right of the photo is where my seat mounts. The big plate with the 4 holes was the original mounting points of my seats. The tube steel with the smaller holes is where the new seat mounted. Notice the front bar is angled. That was to save on time/welds and materials, as the distance between each hole was different.

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In this photo, you can see I used washers to "level" the seat, as each mounting point was slightly different in height from the other.

Definitely the hardest part of building my rig. There was a lot of time involved, mostly "measure twice, cut once". Good luck!
 
^That's exactly what I did when installing my Peugeot 205 GTI seat. That advice is as good as it gets, however, I recommend making sure that the sliding function of the seat remains intact, I never knew how many small children would want a go on the cockpit!
 
The way I did mine was to weld bolts to the top of the seat tracks where I wanted them. This is risky as you can melt any plastic sliders or warp the seat tracks and they will not work. The idea of slicing any vertical differences with a grinder is probably the easiest as far as measuring and getting the holes to line up, but care is again needed to insure that you do not lose too much structure when you trim it down.
 
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