RA seat rails and Evo X seats

**joedr** · Sep 24, 2009, 06:34 PM

Do the RA rails fit the Recaro seats?

I just bought some Evo X seats and the former owner installed them on another car. He pulled the 4 flanges that hold the seat to the chasis off the seat rails to adapt some for the other car that had them. At the end, the seats are pretty much flat on the ground without the flanges.

What will be the easiest?

1. Swap the seat rails off from the RA to the Recaros and viceversa.

2. Remove the flanges off the RA and weld or bolt them to the Evo X rails.

I guess that the easiest way to do it is to visually check the rails themselves, but I did not have a chance yet.

RallyGoneEvo · Sep 24, 2009, 06:48 PM

Just use your stock RA rails.

**joedr** · Sep 24, 2009, 07:09 PM

I knew they looked very similar!

Any idea about the torx size for the rails bolt?

Thanks a lot for the prompt response!

**joedr** · Sep 27, 2009, 11:19 AM

Not straight forward swap!

The passenger side needed to remove a bracket that are held by some rivets. After removing that bracket, the RA rail bolt right away.

The driver side rail can not be swapped. Or at least not w/o major changes. I ended up using the Evo X rail and bolt the flanges that go to the chasis into the rails.

I got no SES or airbag code on the car after the swap.

So, for a true plug-n-play... Get the Evo X seats with all brackets and rails. Everything should bolt right in.

LancerGTS · Sep 27, 2009, 12:13 PM

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Originally Posted by joedr

So, for a true plug-n-play... Get the Evo X seats with all brackets and rails. Everything should bolt right in.

Thanks for mentioning this part, I just bought an Evo X Sparco bracket without knowing if it would match the same

**joedr** · Sep 27, 2009, 01:55 PM

Hope that I posted this before you order something 4 hrs away on mods to get it fit. Good luck!