Best seats for the FC? hint-it's not RX8 seats

[TitaniumTT]

So I just finished installing the awesome set of RX8 seats that I got from Todd and I gotta say, I LOVE the seats, they look great in the car, comfy as all hell and it's honestly like driving a totally different car, it really is. So thanks again Todd for the awesome deal. And yes, I'll get some pics up soon.

Here's why I don't think the RX8 seats are the best for the average person.

1) You really need a MIG and a plasma cutter in order to build all the brakets. Not ONE bracket will fit in place. The rails are about 4" wider in the RX8 than the FC on the drivers side. All the brackets need to be cut off, all 10 of them, and all the locating pins need to go as well. Then you need to measure everything twice, level them, square them, make sure they're not tweaked and will slide, don't interfere etc etc etc. All in all it's about 8 hours of work and it's not over yet. See below

2) The worst part of it all is that, and this is just my opinion but I feel VERY strongly about it, the only way to PROPERLY install these seats is to take the carpet out and build a support box with a welded nut on the inside so that the rear inboard mount (on both seats) can be bolted down. From the top through the rail not almost horizontally off a bracket. I say this needs to be done becuase the inboard track on both seats sits directly over that bolt. That bolt is on an angle and it's impossible to get a socket in there to tighten it down unless you jack the seat vertically, alot.

3) Both the seats are more padded and sit higher than the FC seats. Now, I'm 5'10 and with the passenger seat as low as it can go, my head was ALMOST touching the roof. Now that the seats recline, you can move it forward slightly and recline it a little so that it's liveable. I had a 5'6" 110 woman in the car tonight and she fit just fine soooooo it's a judgement call for you but I don't like the idea of raising the thing up anymore than needed. The tranny tunnel really messes things up on the passenger side


The Corbeaus that I had in there I loved, I really did for totally different reasons and I plan on keeping them for the track because there is really nothing like them for that. The Corbeau brakets are USELESS and you should really build your own, but build them out of 3/16" not 1/8. The 1/8 will bend, I know for a fact. The drivers seat sits a wee to vertical and it's the angle of the platform. It's liveable but I find myself slouching to be comfy which I just can't do becuase of my back and knees. The passenger seat is even worse as it actually feels like you're leaning forward and sitting WAY too high. Both are getting redone this winter when I build that mounting box for the rear inboard mount on the Renni seats. But for long road trips or just tooling around town, the Renni seats are just so much nicer. It's really like driving a totally different car. Everything is much more subdued, softer, more relaxced, less harsh, but the only bad thing is you can't feel the speed nearly as much which got me in trouble a few times tonight. I LOVE the seats and they look awesome in my interior too.

So, with all that said, I believe that the best seat for the FC is the stock FC seat. If you've got a nice set of adjustable TII seats I would spend the money to have them recovered with a nicer pattern, more modern etc, as opposed to getting a set of racing seats unless you're racing. Then they really are needed becuase you just get tossed around WAY too much.

Now I ask, what seats have you seen in the FC that you have sat in, matching passenger and driver, and sat in both and actually really liked and didn't require welding to the body to mount?

[TitaniumTT]

So I just finished installing the awesome set of RX8 seats that I got from Todd and I gotta say, I LOVE the seats, they look great in the car, comfy as all hell and it's honestly like driving a totally different car, it really is. So thanks again Todd for the awesome deal. And yes, I'll get some pics up soon.

Here's why I don't think the RX8 seats are the best for the average person.

1) You really need a MIG and a plasma cutter in order to build all the brakets. Not ONE bracket will fit in place. The rails are about 4" wider in the RX8 than the FC on the drivers side. All the brackets need to be cut off, all 10 of them, and all the locating pins need to go as well. Then you need to measure everything twice, level them, square them, make sure they're not tweaked and will slide, don't interfere etc etc etc. All in all it's about 8 hours of work and it's not over yet. See below

2) The worst part of it all is that, and this is just my opinion but I feel VERY strongly about it, the only way to PROPERLY install these seats is to take the carpet out and build a support box with a welded nut on the inside so that the rear inboard mount (on both seats) can be bolted down. From the top through the rail not almost horizontally off a bracket. I say this needs to be done becuase the inboard track on both seats sits directly over that bolt. That bolt is on an angle and it's impossible to get a socket in there to tighten it down unless you jack the seat vertically, alot.

3) Both the seats are more padded and sit higher than the FC seats. Now, I'm 5'10 and with the passenger seat as low as it can go, my head was ALMOST touching the roof. Now that the seats recline, you can move it forward slightly and recline it a little so that it's liveable. I had a 5'6" 110 woman in the car tonight and she fit just fine soooooo it's a judgement call for you but I don't like the idea of raising the thing up anymore than needed. The tranny tunnel really messes things up on the passenger side


The Corbeaus that I had in there I loved, I really did for totally different reasons and I plan on keeping them for the track because there is really nothing like them for that. The Corbeau brakets are USELESS and you should really build your own, but build them out of 3/16" not 1/8. The 1/8 will bend, I know for a fact. The drivers seat sits a wee to vertical and it's the angle of the platform. It's liveable but I find myself slouching to be comfy which I just can't do becuase of my back and knees. The passenger seat is even worse as it actually feels like you're leaning forward and sitting WAY too high. Both are getting redone this winter when I build that mounting box for the rear inboard mount on the Renni seats. But for long road trips or just tooling around town, the Renni seats are just so much nicer. It's really like driving a totally different car. Everything is much more subdued, softer, more relaxced, less harsh, but the only bad thing is you can't feel the speed nearly as much which got me in trouble a few times tonight. I LOVE the seats and they look awesome in my interior too.

So, with all that said, I believe that the best seat for the FC is the stock FC seat. If you've got a nice set of adjustable TII seats I would spend the money to have them recovered with a nicer pattern, more modern etc, as opposed to getting a set of racing seats unless you're racing. Then they really are needed becuase you just get tossed around WAY too much.

Now I ask, what seats have you seen in the FC that you have sat in, matching passenger and driver, and sat in both and actually really liked and didn't require welding to the body to mount?