subaru impreza gc8 seats into a twingo

[oscar]

so as the name suggests, today i got started with chopping and fabricating the far wider subaru rails which measured 22.2 inches from bolt to bolt horizontally, wheras the renault from side to side bolt was 20.8inches . after a little thought, i decided to use some high grade mild steel to weld on some strong straight brackets to the subaru's rails. grinded the paint of and then spot welded on to line up and then followed it with the mig. went on solidly, then hacked the runners and rail off the twingo's oem seats which took some grinding to get it off the seat base but i got there eventually after alot of hammering and cutting. the rest was simple as anything. sat the twingo rails in the car bolted them on and spot welded two narrow bars across the axis of the floor to hold the shape of the newly created ''diy frame''. took them straight out and mig welded them onto the subaru seats. apologies for no pictures as i was tongue over my lip in full attack / confused zone to stop for snaps lol, and i have only got one done. The first one always takes much much longer, as you have a lot of problem solving to get out the way. now that i know exactly what to do, it will only take me half an hour to botch the drivers side seat up wheras this one took me 3 hours.


although the seats will be upholstered soon, here is the result

edit, these cost me 98 pence on ebay for the full interior

 

[Ash331]

I like a lot but I couldn't rip ma standered seats apart what are you going to do about the air bags ??

 

[oscar]

I like a lot but I couldn't rip ma standered seats apart what are you going to do about the air bags ??

i have to admit my heart sank when i began to grind and cut the bottom of the renault seats apart all i could think about is i better not mess this up or i will have no seats at all!!!! all i need to do is make a resistor plug for the airbags in the seats and then attach it, and use a mates snapon obd2 compter to turn the airbag light off. will need to work out what resistance it will need to be but not looked into it yet, its just R = I over V where I ( where I is current in amps, and V is voltage). at worst it may need a special plug made up by an auto sparky as there are around 7-12 wires going into the plug or something of the sorts

 

[Ash331]

Yea I couldn't do it cos I always think what if I want to sell :/ everything Iv done can go back standered one way or another lol and yea that's the right equation but there's only like 4 or 6 wires pal if that there might only even be two :/

 

[oscar]

only briefly looked ash when i took the seat out, so it was a rough guess from one quick glance and there were a good few wires in the plug. deffinately more than 4, 6-8 seems plausable. either way your usual steering wheel resistor plug doesn't cut the mustard for the seats, will ask a sparky though to be safe

 

[singlespeed]

Davie. In my progress thread, theres a pic of my seat connectors with a couple of resistors in the terminals to mimic the airbag and pretensioner circuits. Thats 4 resistors to sort two seats. Ive heard (but not tried) you can reprogram the ecu to tell it theres no seat airbag/tensioners, so the resistors wouldn't be needed.

 

[oscar]

i feel so silly, i didn't consider attempting to try and see if the renault belts would fit into the subaru units until today when a friend said they're not fitting in. should it be easy enough to just track down some aftermarket subaru fitment belts and replace the renault ones with them? im thinking this way as i dislike the floppy renault belt buckle units, wheras the subaru ones are solid if that makes sense

 

[madmatt]

Seeing as you butchered your OTHER seats, why don't you unbolt the seatbelt socket/pretentioner from your Ren Seats and bolt them onto the Scooby seats?

 

[oscar]

Seeing as you butchered your OTHER seats, why don't you unbolt the seatbelt socket/pretentioner from your Ren Seats and bolt them onto the Scooby seats?

was going to do this but like i said above, i prefer how the subaru ones sit solid and perched where as the renault ones are much longer and flop around. hardly left any room for my hand brake lol

 

[singlespeed]

There's a few companies that do seat belt repairs. Maybe one of them could swap buckles over to a Subaru one.

 

[alex12fowler]

By any chance would you sell the Renault seatbelt pretensioners?

 

[oscar]

alex i'm doing the drivers seat tomorrow, i know that they bolt on and off so it's going to be a case of how far out they sit from the seat as they're really long compared to the little subaru ones which sit perched down low and don't flop around. if they don't sit nicely alex, i'll be more than happy to sell you them. if i don't like how they sit i will pm you tomorrow late afternoon to work something out cheers man

 

[alex12fowler]

Cheers mate

 

[alex12fowler]

Did you decide if you wanted to sell the pretensioners mate?

 

[oscar]

Did you decide if you wanted to sell the pretensioners mate?

hi mate i'm actually so sorry i genuinely forgot to message you! i managed to get them fitted onto the subaru seats and they sit just nicely now and it means i don't have to swap belts so i've settled for that setup, sorry again man. browsed ebay for any twingos being broke?

 

[Callum-stirling]

Did you decide if you wanted to sell the pretensioners mate?

How much would you give ??

 

[alex12fowler]

Hard finding them on ebay. The pretensioners trigger really easily so most breaking cars have them alread deployed.

 

[alex12fowler]

Did you decide if you wanted to sell the pretensioners mate?

How much would you give ??

How much would you want haha

 

[Callum-stirling]

Did you decide if you wanted to sell the pretensioners mate?

How much would you give ??

How much would you want haha

I'm undecided if it's something I want to get rid of

 

[alex12fowler]

Did you decide if you wanted to sell the pretensioners mate?

How much would you give ??

How much would you want haha

I'm undecided if it's something I want to get rid of

I ordered some new ones from Renault for 100 so dont need any now mate