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So I got a set of premium seats to put in the 9-2x and followed the instructions from antho!: http://forums.nasioc.com/forums/showthr … ?t=1971647
Seat w/ original rails:
One minor change is you have to cut off the bolstering from the older seat frame as the newer seats don't have this. Here's the frame that's halfway done (notice the blue part is missing on one side).
Here's the cushion and cover being transferred from the new seats to the old seat frame/rails. And yes, my bedroom is usually an assortment of guitars, keyboards, and cowboy boots.
Most of the white plastic hooks to keep the cover on will work on the old frame. Zip ties will take care of the rest 
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Done. Seat w/ new rails:
I'm also working on the backs right now. They're a much bigger pain.
Updated:
Put some more pics up and learned how to grammar.
Last edited by thejameshimself (2014-05-02 14:50:44)
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That looks awesome. 
Please keep us informed and post moer pictures! Exactly, how big a pain? Was much altered to make room for the rears?
I got to sit in a site member's STi swapped seats recently: Wow, what a difference. Bucket seats ftw.
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Nice looking seats! Post up lots of pics like eurocoffee said. I've been considering this myself for a little while. Thanks!
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Those look awesome!
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Interested on how the rears will come out! Subscribed
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What he said
Do the fronts sit up a little higher than the stock ones?
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eurocoffee wrote:
That looks awesome.
I got to sit in a site member's STi swapped seats recently: Wow, what a difference. Bucket seats ftw.
Thanks! I added some more pics per everyone request. A lot has been altered: the passenger and driver side rails, the center hinge that the seats bolt to, the latch points on the new seat-backs are a couple of inches higher so you have to tear apart the trunk to get to them and move them up, and the bottoms take a lot of modifying to the frame and cushion (I'm still working on this step). If I had it to do over again i'd go with a set from our generation, but I'm too committed now.
The front seats are a big improvement though. I like the extra bolstering, the cushion, and the looks. The rears don't feel all that great in comparison.
trunkm0nk3y wrote:
Do the fronts sit up a little higher than the stock ones?
Not that I've noticed. They have the same controls so you can move the seat up and down like the original seats.
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Will you be able to keep the side airbags?
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maverickPixel wrote:
Will you be able to keep the side airbags?
I should be. Right now I just have a dummy resistor on there so the SRS doesn't trip. I'm going to make a pass-through cable so I don't have to cut off the ends of the new seats in case I ever want to resell them.
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Hate to bring this from the dead, but did you ever have any luck ever getting the rear seat to fit/work?
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Bumping from the dead because I finally got around to uploading pictures for the rears...
Write-up for installing 2013 STI (GR) Rear Seats in a 2005 9-2x Linear (GG):
Part 1: https://forums.nasioc.com/forums/showpo … stcount=72
Part 2: https://forums.nasioc.com/forums/showpo … stcount=73
Part 3: https://forums.nasioc.com/forums/showpo … stcount=74
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Back seats are gheto as fuck. Not worth all that trouble.
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itsnotmeitsyou wrote:
Back seats are gheto as fuck. Not worth all that trouble.
Ghetto as in... not comfortable? Agreed.
I was surprised by how much more work the rears were, considering the fronts were not too terrible to swap.
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To each their own but I hated my GR seats, flat and wide, built for much wider people. I bought replacement lower foam for my 92x seat (~$90), made a big difference.
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