get out your haterade!@!!
You would really spend $1200 on one seat? I barely spend over $2000 for my cars!! My only RX7 was only $1800. (actually, $500 cash and my old POS 96 Galant that I destroyed and bought for $500 as well) so.......technically, I spent $1000 on my first RX7, but he was asking $1800. lol, Well that was a short story turned long.
yeah, I ended up having about $3000 into mine when I flipped it, but I had gotten a lot of free parts from ISC Racing where I worked. All we did was turn street RX7s and Miatas into SCCA race cars. So we had a lot of RX7 shells and others that we stripped to nothing and built into race cars and I got any parts that we wouldn't use. For instance, I got 2 free full exhausts. Of course they were used, but so what? A little rust and some oil to smoke out and I had a free exhaust. I miss that job......
Originally Posted by drftwerks
i cant understand the appeal to these ugly heavy seats
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I think the seats weigh SLIGHLY less than the stock Turbo II seats - I'll weigh them in the next few days.
I think it's made for smaller Japanese drivers, so if you're around 5'6", it should be perfect.
The bolsters are nice, and the suede-like materials doesn't allow you to slide around.
I don't fit really well in the left-side seat, and I actually sit higher in them versus the US-spec turbo and GXL seats. :P
Yes, the pic is from my seats sitting in my driveway.
And I actually paid for them to be shipped to Cali and then UPS'd to Hawaii.
On YJA, they are amazingly "cheap"...
I paid around US$120 for BOTH of my seats.
Of course, shipping adds a LOT for me in Hawaii, since it was reshipped from Cali. :P
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I just weighed the right-side (J-spec driver / US-spec passenger) seat, and it came out to 30.58 lbs. with no brackets.
I have my old '87 Turbo II passenger seat listed at 32.20 lbs. with brackets, so the seats are very similar in weight.
Just for kicks, I weighed my Sparco EVO2 seat, and that came out to 15.44 lbs. for just the seat no brackets.
The Sparco universal side-mount brackets weigh a ton, but they only came in at 5.04 lbs.
So, the Sparco EVO2 mounted would weigh in a little over 20 lbs. mounted.
I'd lose just about 10 lbs. just by going with the race seat!
The Infini left-side seat is a little too high for me, so it's most likely coming back out.
I sit taller in it versus a stock Turbo II or GXL seat I had in before.
I hit the headliner on bumps, so it's not comfortable.
It's really made for a smaller frame person.
So to all the losers who were bitching about weight, the Infini seats don't weigh more than the stock FC seats as it is...
-Ted
I have my old '87 Turbo II passenger seat listed at 32.20 lbs. with brackets, so the seats are very similar in weight.
Just for kicks, I weighed my Sparco EVO2 seat, and that came out to 15.44 lbs. for just the seat no brackets.
The Sparco universal side-mount brackets weigh a ton, but they only came in at 5.04 lbs.
So, the Sparco EVO2 mounted would weigh in a little over 20 lbs. mounted.
I'd lose just about 10 lbs. just by going with the race seat!
The Infini left-side seat is a little too high for me, so it's most likely coming back out.
I sit taller in it versus a stock Turbo II or GXL seat I had in before.
I hit the headliner on bumps, so it's not comfortable.
It's really made for a smaller frame person.
So to all the losers who were bitching about weight, the Infini seats don't weigh more than the stock FC seats as it is...
-Ted
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ehh i dont have the wheels...if i want them ill probably just buy the center caps and put them on a set of vert wheels. i have a FEED cluster already