[BMWCSRegistry] Seat compatibility question

[Michael Balaban]

E21 seats can be purchased through:

http://www.2002parts.com/html/recaro_front_seats.html

These are the only type of seats I know of which can be bolted in,  
with minor modification to the e9 rail system.


Michael Balaban
mbalaban2002 at earthlink.net



On Jul 14, 2007, at 5:42 PM, Bill Riblett wrote:

> That reply is pretty simplistic.
>
> I only know specific info for the E30 sport seats and I do not know  
> exactly
> how they compare to the E36 seats.  But both of these seats mount  
> to the
> floor and not on the seat 'towers' that E9s and other early cars  
> use.  These
> 'towers' are the part of the body that the seat tracks are bolted  
> to.  To
> fit the later bolt-to-the-floor seats, you have to remove the seat  
> towers
> and reinforce the floor where the new seats are bolted.  Obviously  
> this
> requires some fabrication.  A friend of mine did this to mount E30  
> sport
> seats in his coupe.  After all this, you also have to redo some of  
> the front
> floor carpet.
>
> I know someone else who made some adaptors which enabled him to  
> hang E30
> sport seats from the seat tracks, fitting in between the seat  
> towers on his
> 2002.  BUT, those seats sit quite high and only work for him  
> because he is
> only about 5' 6" tall.  The seat mounting design is similar between  
> E9s and
> 2002s that I'm pretty confident that this would work on an E9, but  
> besides
> sitting up so far, I feel like this design is kind of flimsy tho I  
> could be
> wrong about that.
>
> The E21 sport seats (Recaros) and the sport seats often found in early
> (78-81) gray market 635s are bolt-ins.  The E21 Recaros are getting  
> harder
> to find and the 635 seats have always been rare in the US.
>
> I'm copying this to the CS Registry as others may find it useful.
> Bill
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jonathan Blanc [mailto:blanc8 at gmail.com]
> Sent: Saturday, July 14, 2007 7:25 AM
> To: Bill Riblett
> Subject: Re: [BMWCSRegistry] Seat compatibility question
>
> Hi Bill,
>
> Thanks for your email!  One of the other CS members emailed me this:
>
> "Nothing is a bolt in.  However, a simple mount can be fabricated for
> minimal cost and effort.  Also, Recaro makes a mount that I believe  
> is still
> available."  Does this mean that I can buy the E36 seats and have  
> the mount
> fabricated?
>
> Please advise,
> Jonathan
>
> On 7/14/07, Bill Riblett <briblett at comcast.net> wrote:
>> The E36 seats won't fit the CS tracks.  The E36 seats normally mount
>> to the floor.
>> Other models that have bolt-in seats include E21s, E24 56 series
>> before 1982, 1600/2002s and E12 5 series.
>> Bill Riblett
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: bmwcsregistry-bounces at idb.ded.forest.net
>> [mailto:bmwcsregistry-bounces at idb.ded.forest.net] On Behalf Of
>> Jonathan Blanc
>> Sent: Friday, July 13, 2007 10:06 PM
>> To: bmwcsregistry at idb.ded.forest.net
>> Subject: [BMWCSRegistry] Seat compatibility question
>>
>> Hi All,
>>
>> I have a '73 CS and I want to put E36 manual front seats in (E36= 3
>> Series from the mid 90's).  Do any of you know if E36 manual seats
>> will fit the track of the E9?  If they don't, do any of you know  
>> which
>> early E models fit the E9 (E21??)
>>
>> Please help,
>>
>> Jonathan Blanc
>>
>> '73 CS  #2240511
>> '73 CS #2250336 "Rusty"
>> '97 528i (halfway to a new car if I hit 1M miles!)
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