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Old 03-08-10 | 06:46 PM
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so all you had to do was flip the front two brackets around and thats it! man I'm getting mazda seats like tomorrow.
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first time I seen mazda seats... great job on making them fit!
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those head lights are fowl
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how comfortable are the mazda3 seats compared to oem?
Old 03-09-10 | 06:48 AM
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Originally Posted by tpham86
how comfortable are the mazda3 seats compared to oem?
Driver side is today i had work yesterday so i'll let you know after i put a few miles on them. Just sitting in the passenger seat they feel soft yet firm and have side bolsters for support. My stock seats where uncomfortable as **** since they where all ripped to hell and a lot of foam was missing.

What all lips are available for 92-96 SC's? All i can find is the Wise front lip. Im not going full kit for a while and when I do it will be auto couture or something along those lines.
Old 03-09-10 | 07:58 AM
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Damn dude, I gotta see these Mazda seats in person.... or at least more pics for now.

MOARRR!!!
Old 03-09-10 | 03:45 PM
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Originally Posted by fleishelja
so all you had to do was flip the front two brackets around and thats it! man I'm getting mazda seats like tomorrow.
This ended up making the seat too far forward. Still an easy fix since i took the brackets off the rails from the SC and put them on the mazda seats and then the fronts lined up and I made little plates for the rears.















Hard to tell in the pics but the Mazda's are perforated in the middle inserts.
Making a cover for around the rear sub (Kicker CVR ftw!) at the moment and ordering a new center console lid tonight or tomorrow.

Problem: The seat belts wont go into the mazda seats and the seat belts are like molded in. The reason the steering wheel wasnt painted or anything was because i was going with an aftermarket one but with no seat belts im not taking out my airbag! Im going to see if i can grind off and weld on the SC seat belts.

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^mad props on the restoration..
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Thanks for the comments!

Last night i ordered another shift **** and the armrest leather. I might install the lowering springs friday. I get paid next tuesday ill be going for tint and wheels
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you were able to fit a Kicker CVR in the back sub area without problems?
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Originally Posted by tpham86
you were able to fit a Kicker CVR in the back sub area without problems?
No i had to use 1/2" mdf to raise it and i attached it to the oem bracket as well. The base of the Kicker is much fatter and longer so it needed to come up to fit. Depth wise it was fine though, I clear the gas tank easily.



What all front lips are available for a 92-96 sc? Not really diggin the Wise.
Old 03-10-10 | 01:31 PM
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Originally Posted by BostonSC4
i feel like the only way an interior can look like that is if you stole Mike Tyson's tiger and had to bring it back to him in the car.....

and the previous owner had to have used that car on African Safari's for the headlights to look like that.

best of luck man! bring that thing back from the dead.
haha this made me laugh because of the condition my front seats were in... I always explained to people that a tiger got in there
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Looks good give us some updated pics
Old 03-10-10 | 07:21 PM
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Didnt check the seat belt to see if the stock ones would go into the mazda's and they dont. Good thing i couldnt make it to the dump yesterday to throw away the old seats! New ones are swapped in now and everything is good good good.

Cant wait for next week. Wheels, lowering, and tint!!!

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Old 03-12-10 | 04:10 PM
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So went to install my springs and like most people said they didnt lower the car any in the rear!

Wasnt surprised since i was figuring its only a few brand of supra springs that will work on oem shocks and my Falkens are made by Eibach so I assumed they wouldnt.

I found BNIB KYBs for the rear

When doing this I got another lovely surprise. My rotors are gouged to hell!

LS400 upgrade time? So its only beneficial to do this in the front right? The rears look small? Any word of installing the front calipers to the rear?

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