Ed Hughes

I ordered a new Recaro Profi SPG XL and some B-K sidemounts for my driver's seat. I've outgrown the Recaro Speed's I've got-tired of wedging my left leg on the dead pedal to hold me in place on the track-guess that's a good sign.

At any rate, I do like having the seat further back when driving on the street and a bit closer at the track, so I want a sliding mechanism. Since I want to keep it all as low as possible, does anyone know whether the Recaro of Sparco sliders have a height advantage over the other?

Mike Buck

I have Recaro double locking flat sliders. Bought through CDOC. Mark said they were the thinnest. About 3/4 inch at most.

Ed Hughes

Thanks Mike. I can't see how one could possibly improve on 3/4" by much. Plus, with the Sparcos, I'd have to get a B-K handle to set the sliders at the proper width.

RedlineMan

Hey;

Same difference with either slider as far as I remember, and I've employed them both.

Ed Hughes

Thanks.

One more quick question: The Recaro sliders come with or without height adjustment. Is the height adjustment worthwhile, and does it do anything to flat height?

Bill Verburg

The flat Recaros are a tad thinner than the Sparcos, stock manual 944/964/928are a bit thinner than the Recaros.

There is no height adjustment on the flat Recaro re 0.70.9NT sliders.

Ed Hughes

Hmmm, Speedware's site gives an option for height adjustment on that model.

Bill Verburg

There's a separate tabbed slider but that isn't used for the shell seats.

You need to get these as low as you can. Read thru the other thread at Pelican.

pmason

I have pretty much the same setup, 1984 Targa, Recaro SPG XL, BK, and Recaro sliders.
Right now the car is in the shop having a custom rollbar installed with door bars to stiffen the car.
But the passenger seat/parts are here if you want to see some pictures.
Phil

007DT

Speedware has their own mounts that have height options. I have those. They work great for my application.

Ed Hughes

No, these are the Recaro sliders. Polepositionusa.com has the same choice-height or no height.

C4 Pazzo

Ed,
I think you need the non-height adjustable sliders (0.70.9NT) for your car. Later cars have 16" spacing so you can bolt the sliders directly to the floor and to the seat brackets. The height adjustable sliders (0.70.9) have tabs on the ends that would not allow you to bolt the slider directly to the floor (the "NT" stands for "No Tab"). Early cars (pre-73) have 18" seat mount spacing so they require an adapter to move the mounting point inwards to match the spacing of the racing shell. Wedge Engineering makes an adapter for early cars that has tubes welded in parallel to the mounting base to which the height tabs bolt.

You aren't missing out on anything, since the height adjustment tab only allows the base setting and two higher settings and it sounds like you want to be as low as possible.