GT3 seats...

[Topless]

Most racing seats will get you more headroom and hold you in position better during performance driving if you bolt them to the floor instead of using sliders. I use Cobra seats in my car and love them on the track or for canyon carving. They are more confining and a lot less interesting for a daily driver. I can usually go 2-3 hrs in the seat on long drives but then have to get out to stretch my legs and re-energize my butt.

[seningen]

Originally Posted by Topless

Most racing seats will get you more headroom and hold you in position better during performance driving if you bolt them to the floor instead of using sliders. I use Cobra seats in my car and love them on the track or for canyon carving. They are more confining and a lot less interesting for a daily driver. I can usually go 2-3 hrs in the seat on long drives but then have to get out to stretch my legs and re-energize my butt.

I'd sure like to find something that held me in better
But wasn't such a pita on the streets.

Love to have a 4 scroth, 5 or 6 pt that I coukd
Also use the stock 3 pt on streets.

I'll need sliders as my wife drives/tracks it too.

I find myself yanking my self back in the seat during straights
Just so I can be in the right position to heal toe
And hit the curves.

Mike

[thstone]

As with most things in life, performance seating is a often an exercise in tradeoff's and finding what you can live with and what you can't. Each driver and person is somewhat unique in this way and no size fits all.

Racing seats can be installed and adjusted to get the perfect fit but they can also be a PITA for everyday driving (pulling your hind end up and over the edge of the seat can get old along with fiddling with the three point belt buckle next to the tall side of a racing seat).

But on the good side, they look great and work great.

Here is my old BSX with Sparco Pro2000 Plus seats (the "Plus" seat fits us "wider" folks better!) along with 6-pt Schroth harnesses. The stock seat belts and receptacles were retained so I didn't have to use the 6-pt harness on the street.

Ingress/egress is a bit more difficult in a seat like this (note where the black fabric is worn off of the drivers left side bolster from rubbing each time I get in/out) but this setup is PERFECT for track days.

I also found the race seats to be the most comfortable seat ever. I like them 10x more than the stock Porsche seats. I can drive for 4-5 hours on the freeway without complaint.

The lower pic shows the mounting system: Racing seat to Brey-Krause side mounts which attach to the stock slider which attaches to a custom floor mount.

At that time I was adjusting my head height via stacks of towels under my bum - more towels (taller) for street driving with no helmet and better visibility and no towels (lower) for track days with the helmet. A more sophisticated approach would be to have an upholstery shop make a removable pad that could be swapped in/out and look nicer than a stack of towels (will anyone be mad if I say that the towel setup looks a bit ghetto? I hope not. )

I happily lived with this setup for more than two years which included driving it every day to work and taking clients and co-workers out in the car. The tradeoff was acceptable to me but my wife would have never found this acceptable in a daily driver.

Your mileage may vary.

[itsnotanova]

Tom, How hard is it to get to the front engine cover with those fixed seats?

[steved0x]

Originally Posted by itsnotanova

Tom, How hard is it to get to the front engine cover with those fixed seats?

With sliders about the same as with the stock seats, maybe a touch less room but doable.

With seats bolted to the floor (like my driver seat) the seat has to come out, unless it is way forward and even then probably. Mine is all the way back.

My passenger seat is Recaro Profi (not xl version like driver side) on sliders. Last time I needed to get to the panel behind the seats (oil temp and pressure gauge wiring) I took out the driver side (4 bolts and unclip the seat belt wire), and was able to just slide the pax seat forward.

Even when I had my stock seats (when I did UDP and WP) I took out the pax seat so I could kneel and have more to work.

Steve