New pair of GT3 replica seats for $600

[ChrisZang]

Originally Posted by CVstarBoxster

They look nice! Question: how light are they? How much weight did u lose compared to stock seats?

They are maybe 15 lb a piece plus 5 lb for the side mounts
The stock seats are incredibly heavy, so it's a major weight saving

[aclark133]

Originally Posted by jacabean

Good luck getting them in cocoa . Rotec quoted me 1800 plus 200 shipping for boxster red synthetic .

Still cheaper than $5k from suncoast

[ChrisZang]

update on my own post:

As much as I like the seats, in the current cold climate here I missed the comfort of my heated stock seats.
So I started looking and found on eBay an aftermarket kit for heated seats.
It's basically four thin fabric sheets with the heating elements inside, two switches and lots of wire.

So now how to install them?
I got lucky as the leather seat cushions of my GT3 seats all have a velcro flap on the side where they open and then you find some dense foam inside. So basically it was very easy:
Open flap, take foam out, put the heating elements on top of the foam pad, stuff it carefully back inside, close flap.

For the electric wiring:
Initially I wanted to use my OEM switches for the seat heaters for a complete OEM look, but soon figured out that this is not straight forward at all.
So I went with the supplied switches and decided to install them in the batwing.
I found a used batwing (I wanted to keep my original intact), drilled the holes for the switches, got the power from the phone connector in the center console. The switches in the batwing almost look stock.

Overall maybe 2 hours of work and it works great

[CVstarBoxster]

Wow! You're very creative dude! Great job! If you lived close by, I'd have request your services to do the same thing.

[thstone]

Originally Posted by ChrisZang

And guess what: The holes in the seats don't match the holes in the side mounts...

This seems more common than not. My shop also had to custom fit the holes for my Sparco Pro2000 race seats to the BK mounting brakets and sliders.
The only thing that I can conclude is that there is no "standard" hole pattern so everyone does it a bit differently.