What seats are these?

Not sure what they are but I like them! Are those 360 CS seats?

 

They look like the optional 355 CF seats (the CF seats can be ordered with any Ferrari from the 355 onwards), but they don't seem to have the CF backs on them.

So, I reckon they are a cheaper alternative to the factory CF seats. They look great too.

 

They look like retrimmed Recaro Sportster CS seats, similar to the seats in Audi R8s and RS4s etc

Lovely interior.

 

+1

 

Neil, you are one smart guy.

I looked at the features and configuration of the Sportster CS seat and they are identical to those pictured. They look to be around $1300.00 (in non-leather) if you plan to recover them.

Here's the Recaro link.

http://www.recaro-automotive.com/us/product-areas-us/aftermarket-seats/product/sportster-cs.html

 

Well thank you Scott, if I can help half as much as you do I would be very happy

 

How do you mount a Recaro seat into a 355? They don't make a mounting kit for it.

 

Looks similar to these seats in the for sale section:

http://ferrarichat.com/forum/vbclassified.php?do=ad&id=1782


I'd love to have a set of these, but wonder about the install modifications...

 

You modify the seat rails to suit.

 

Yep Yep...that's what I was thinking. This really isn't that hard.

 

These seats were recently offered for sale here by Brhill355 and the photo is of his car (which was also for sale). The ad stated that they were bolt-on using the OEM mounting hardware, but you can see from the picture that the handbrake cover had to be cut to create enough lateral room. As already stated, the seats are custom upholstered Recaro Sportster CS.

The following thread gives a good idea of what fitting such seats involves (Sparco in this case, with the center console modified instead of the handbrake cover).

http://www.ferrarichat.com/forum/showthread.php?t=96725

 

Yep, I modified the seat rails to fit Recaro seats into my Ford Fairlane 10+ yrs ago.

They never sold a bolt in "kit" for my model, so I had a boiler maker friend cut and shut my original seat rails to suit the new Recaro seats.