No, the floor mounts are different. The 9-3 seats also have airbags in them. I'm not sure what's a safe way of making sure they never go off.

 

Hmm... can the cushions and/or covers be swapped?

 

No they mount to the frames differently, I suspect you could make the cushions fit since they are just foam.

EdT, if you take the seat cover off the airbag can easily be removed. There are chunks of foam to fill in the blanks on the opposite side (i.e. the inner bolster) you could take a passenger inner bolster and use that to fill the air bag hole on the driver's side, and vice-versa.

 

Wow! Us 900NG owners are out of luck then. We have to spend more that the car is worth to have our front seats re-upholstered...

I think that dood on the Velocity channel; "byiotchin Rides", can fix us up!:roll: All us 900NG owners should go to his shop on the same day and wait for him to show up. Hed love us!! I think his name is Kanig or something of that nature. Who knows, we might even get some airtime:suprised;

 

I have cloth seats and they're perfectly good. Lumbar and heat work too. Mind you, they were out of a parts 900, but they've held up for a few years since.

And everyone wants leather....rich Corinthian leathrrrrr.... :roll:

 

There are some posts around here on doing the swap. A few people have. You need to make up some modified rails as I recall.

A search on "rail" or "rails" would probably find some posts.

 

Most of the related threads I've found so far are missing the images,
so less help on specifics. But I know I can make mounts and wire
them in. I kept saying 'this is going to be some work' and she kept
saying 'these are really nice seats'... So I'll revisit the issue once I
get the car on the road.

 

Rails, indeed. The old seats have detachable ones, and the
new seats have a flat surface on which to bolt them. Wiring
shouldn't be an issue. This could happen.

 

So did these rails from old to new seats bolt on or were some mods needed? Just a few holes drilled?

 

Yes, some mods were needed...

The width between rails is different between car models,
(about 1.3" narrower in the car) and the front-to-back
spacing is slightly different. The rails also needed spacers
to clear motors that hang below the seat.

picture 1: two pieces of strap metal provide mounting for
the original rails. I mounted the inner rail on the new seat
location. The (this) outer rail is on the metal straps (this is
the passenger seat).

picture 2: new strap and spacer block; old rail mounted on
strap. Some notching to clear mounting bolt.

picture 3: inner rail and spacer

picture 4: outer rail (notched to clear the mounting bolt so
the rail can be moved side-to-side for exact fitting) and
spacer.

Wiring is more-or-less sorted. The only thing I haven't handled
is why the front-to-back switch on the driver's seat is
momentary (won't continuously move the seat). I'm not
attempting to wire in seat memory (at least not yet) or the
air bags.

[Is there only 1mb for pictures? I'm already up against that
limit if it's true.]

 

Nice photos and write up... and well done.

There is a low limit on uploaded photos. Put your pictures on an outside server like Photobucket.com. Use the little yellow tool that looks like a picture to insert by pasting the URL (http://....) that points to the photo at Photobucket.

 

Thanks!

It's no problem to host my own pictures.

 

One seat bolted in, both seats wired. Waiting to install the interior trim
panels before bolting in the second one.

The driver's seat needs a 12v+ signal on pin 4 of the underseat connector,
(H29-1) as well as the hookups to pins 1 & 2. Pin 29 also needs to be
grounded.

The passenger seat doesn't have a wire in pin 4 of the connector, so I just
pulled the relay and added a jumper between pins 30 and 87.