hey everybody its Justin and it's about
to get a little bit uncomfortable in my
Subaru BRZ because today is a race seat
installation day that's right we've got
two sparco evo seats going into the car
today passenger side along with the
driver's side in addition to that we
also have my Schroth rally 3 three point racing
harness going in as well we're going to
save a lot of weight with these upgrades
lower the center of gravity in the car
while also providing a much more secure
driving position with the harness and the
seat keeping us in place during
high-performance driving so enough
talking let's get after it will show you
how to install and go through the process
so before we start ripping
anything out of the car safety first I'm
going to unplug the battery because we
are going to be messing with airbag and
electrical clips underneath the seat so
we're going to get that done get after this first seat
so now that we have the
battery unhooked in the front of the car
we can go ahead and get started taking
out the seat the good thing with the
2017 cars as they actually got rid of
the e 10 star style socket that was holding
in the seats they now have a standard 12
millimeter socket that you can use to
take the seat bolts out makes it a lot
easier don't have to have a specialized
tool so we basically have two bolts in
the front of the car slide the seat
forward and you've got two in the back
down here as well so we'll get the bolts
unbolted that'll loosen up the seat
there's about three Clips underneath the
seat for the airbag the c-clip sensor
and one other thing I kind of forget
hood will show you when we get under
there we got to unhook those as well and
then the seat just pops right out okay
the seat bolts are up the seat is tilted
up the lighting kind of stinks
underneath the seat here but i'll try to
show you the clips i was talking about
all right added a little bit of light so
these are the three clips for me to get
off of the car there's a clip right up
here that if you loosen that it releases
the wiring loom here so you can get off
the clips a little bit easier but we
need to get that undone the clips on
done and then we can pull the seat out
of here these clips are all pretty much
standard press and pull Clips that
unhook pretty straightforward we'll get
that done and get the seat out alright
so the driver's seat is out pretty
simple the clips can be a little bit
tricky especially the airbag one i'll show
you a close-up here in a second and also
the other thing that we have to do to
the seat is get the seat belt buckle off
of that one and put it on the race seat
before we can get the race seat
installed so here's our close up of the
underside of the seats so the clips on
the underside they stay in place in the
little jig they've got made here like I
said what we'll have to do is pull off
the seat belt you can pop this plastic
shroud off right here real easy the
carpet loosens up under there and can
be pulled back and then what you can do
is release all of the little clips in
here there's a couple more on the
underside and basically route the cable
out for the seatbelt and then you can
attach that to the race seat over there
and it pretty much just bolts right up
now move it inside the car to the clips
in here these are the three seat clips
this big yellow one is the air bag clip
this is the one that's kind of tricky to
get off at first and really all you need
to do is make sure you're pressing down
on the white release lever there as long
as you keep depressing that and giving
it wiggles and pulls it will eventually
come out so I'm going to work out and
pull it out seat belt wiring real quick here
seat belt buckle is off we retained the
stock clip all of the wiring is intact
now we can just bolt this up to the race
seat now before we get to installing the
new seat in the car I'm actually going
to put in the schroth three-point harness
there's a back section that actually
bolts up to the rear seat belt mount in
the back of the car we've got to take
some plastic off back there and bolt
that thing in so we'll show you that
real quick and then we can get to the seat
so inside the car in order to get
this started we got to pull off this
plastic piece back here what you're
going to need is some kind of plastic
puller like this one here or a
screwdriver will work just be really
careful because obviously this is kind
of fragile plastic back here you got to
be real careful getting it off but once
you get it off is going to hang there by
some plastic clips it doesn't come out
completely which makes this whole
process even more tricky but it is
doable just going to take your time and
be patient so I'll start by getting this
thing off here and then I'll show you
the inside where the rear seat buckle
belt mounts to
so I now have the plastic pieces off of
the pillar back here I'm not going to
lie it's a real pain in the ass
especially this little triangle piece
right here there's a clip in there that
goes in the back here there's a real
pain to get off and I actually lost it
down in the car here it slid down into
the underside of the plastics there but
not a big deal it still goes back
together give you an idea of what it
looks like so that's the whole I'm
talking about where the clip goes right
in there and then this piece kind of
fits up in there like that and there is
one little bolt that goes up in there as
well and behind this guy and this thing
this plastic piece doesn't come off it's
retained by some clips up in there so
you kind of have to maneuver around that
thing just makes it a little bit awkward
working back in there but eventually it
comes apart and that all we have to do
is undo the bolt for the seatbelt mount
back here once we get the seat belt
mount bolts taken out grab the harness
mount which is this guy right here it
just slides behind the bolt on the seat
belt mounts and that pretty much
finishes up the back part of the job
just got to put the plastics back in the
way they came out and then tidy
everything back up
so I actually found the clip that I just lost yanking that part off
it fell down through the car
through the pillar up here all the way
down under here see if you can see it
right up under there so I'm going to yank
that out I can actually put that piece
back together the way it belongs when I get to i
okay the rear harness section is now in
place I just need to torque down the
seat belt mounting bolts to 22 foot
pounds I'll show you what it looks like
here when it is finally put together so
as you can see the harness piece is
right back in here and it's attached
didn't work too well it's attached back
in there behind the bolt hard to see
tight in there be patience and
eventually you'll get things tied up and
hooked together and then this is our harness
strap which will connect to the front of
the harness alright so everything is now
buttoned up back in place I did leave
out one of the little white clips I'm a
little triangle piece in the back here
just to make it easier to go back
together and it will make it easier to
take apart if and when I take out the
harness strap so all the plastics just
snap back in place not terribly
difficult after getting this piece back
in that is and then we have our hardest
strap ready to go and hook up to the
front of the harness all right back to
the fun stuff I got the sparco seat
sitting here I'm going to bolt up the
seat belt buckle to both of the seats
both of the stock seats are out car is
empty we're going to get the new seats
in there and we should be just about done
all right everybody we got the sparco
evo race seats installed let's go ahead
and take a closer look at the finished product
so that does it for this video everybody
sparco evo races in my 2017 subaru brz
along with my rally 3 schroth harness
thanks so much for watching I hope you
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