CF race seats-anyone taken one apart??

FYI: Sparco, OMP, etc sell air bladders that are made for use as additional support. This way you need not take the seat apart... unless your seats are leather, then i guess you would need to somehow attach the air units and not tuck them under the leather.

 

I recently had mine reupholstered at Prestige. I don't know what's involved, but here's Fernando's number: 818.753.9606.

 

Too much torque...?

Years ago, when I lived in NY, my aunt had purchased a brand new Lincoln Navigator... I drove it almost as much as she did and enjoyed the generous, torquey V-8 from light to light... There was only one problem... At 240+ pounds, sitting in a seat wholly composed of crappy GM parts, when I nailed the gas, the car's thrust forward would push my fat ass back as hard as possible, ignoring the electronic setting and forcing the seat to move back as far as possible...

The electronic seat adjustment gizmo thingie had to be repaired...

That little story probably gives you zero help with your question, but it just seemed like a good place to tell it...

 

Agree the stock seats, at least with the lowly 308 here, were horrible for 'proper' driving of these cars. i guess if we just posed with the car and polished it, then the stock seats would not matter. But since you drive the car as G-d and Enzo intended, i would suggest doing what i did.

If i may be so bold as to suggest.... Dump the stock seats for proper race seats and Schroth profi-IIasm DOT-approved 4-point belts. That will keep you IN the seat and you'd be surprised how much better you can drive when you are not sliding all over the place in the car's seat. Your lumbar idea may just make it worse as your body sides could more easily slip out of the seat.

Get race seats and harness and don't look back. Save the stock seats in some dark corner of the garage if you plan to sell the car to someone else in the future.

 

Alas, i think you'll need $$$ to have the seats redone unless you go for the stick on OMP/Sparco air bladder outside the seat. Would LOVE to see pics of your current seat setup

 

Whatever...!


John, you're just jealous...!

 

Thanks - check out my profile picture - both pictures fit me perfectly...

It'll be so much sweeter if I earn the Enzo - it would, of course, be a huge honor to receive a gift like that... But you never fully appreciate something unless you've earned it... I even stopped playing the lottery, because, at this point in my life, it would be hollow and almost unfair if I won...

 

I was going to do mine. I was told by Fernando (see M-fan's post) that an inflatable bladder could be easily fitted under the leather.