Let’s face it, to some of us the stock seats suck! They are very bouncy, offer very little support and really aren't that comfortable. It’s pretty common for people to ditch the stock seats in favor of something sportier.

There’s several ways to go about mounting a new set of seats. First check to see if the stock rails on the seats you’re using line up with the frame rails in the car. If they do, lucky you- bolt ‘em in and you’re done! If not, see if there’s any way to mount your stock civic rails to your new seat. You may be able to get away with drilling a couple holes in the seat and bolting the civic rails on and away you go. If you still don’t have a winner and are determined to use those seats you can either fabricate custom brackets or build a sub frame for the seat and mount your stock civic rails to that.

Here’s some known swaps..

Front seats are easily found to swap but it is the rear that will be the problem because of the shape and there are few that have done them.

88 Dodge Daytona  seats

Remove the dodge seat rails, bolt on the Honda rails, (bolts right in) then when you sit the seats in, bolt the inner side in, you will have to drill a hole for the outer side, and I had to cut a small strip of the base plastic molding a little, just because the seats are a little wider, it is not hard, a few hours project and a big difference in the comfort zone.

Bruce

90-91 Honda Civic/CRX Si  seats

Very comfortable and sporty seat. There are several methods to mount these. You can weld an extension bracket on one side of the seat and then re-drill holes to match them to the original track location. Or you can cut the original frame mounts (in the car) and weld in new supports for the 91 tracks. Justin has done this both ways with good success.

86-87 Honda CRX Si  seats

Quikrick's seat swap

80-83 Honda Prelude  seats

Much sportier then the stock seats with fully adjustable side supports and lumbar. Mounting them is a snap- The front mounts line up with the stock holes almost exactly, they just require a little bending to fit. One rear mount requires a longer bolt and the other requires a hole drilled in the floor. Of course you can get away with having the seat bolted down at only three points but I’d recommend drilling to fourth hole and securing them properly. Kurt Bosnell

88-89 Honda Prelude  seats

88 Prelude Si buckets fit perfectly in the interior, though it is hard to adjust the bolster setting since there is only about 1/4 inch between the bolter knob and passenger seat. About two hours work to adapt the Civic seat tracks to the Prelude seats and you will be riding' in comfort. However, if you don't change the steering wheel from stock you may have trouble getting in and out. The bolsters are BIG!

91 Honda Prelude  seats

To mount, the new seats install the factory rails back onto the new seats, you can usually mount one of the rails in the stock location on the new seat usually the outside rail) and then measure in 16" on center and remount the original track, Justin uses metric nut inserts in the metal with washers or metal sleeves to give it the right height.       Justin.

92-95 Honda Civic  seats

Michael Short:

The back seat was a very tight fit. ½" holes needed to be drilled in each fender to accept the lower pins in each upper seat half. The seat bottom is just shoved in.

97 Pontiac Sunfire seats

Here’s a set of stock rear seats covered in braided corduroy cloth. Looks pretty nice!

Darrell DeChon

Corbeau seats

Corbeau seats Sweet eh?  I recon I'm going to go with the Civic rails and make my own setup. I think it'll be a simple enough matter when I've got the bits. The seat seems to hold onto its mountings by four screws so I might only need to add some flat or L-section steel to get it properly kushty.

This is the Corbeau D280T mounting frame if one desires to go this route, click on the image to link the manufacturers web page.

I’m hopefully going to be grabbing a set of stock seat rails. The Corbeau setup looks a little ‘hokey’ for my taste. I like the look/ feel of the stock Civic lever.

Keil Sheppard

98 Integra GS  seats

Drill new holes in the seat and use nut inserts to mount the original tracks.

Swift GT seats

Honda Ferio seats

01 Boxster S seats