Seat weight

[DaveK]

Anyone know how much the stock seats weigh?

Thanks

Dave

[bdw18_123]

I have the seats out of my '90, so I weighed the passenger seat with a digital bathroom scale. Full assembled seat including the electrics and tracks came to 44 pounds for 1 seat. Damn things are pretty heavy.



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[flyin ryan]

The Recaro seats in my Stingray weight 36.5 LBS. EA., cloth & no power/lumbar nothin' :cool:.

[DaveK]

Interesting, I thought that the stock seats would be much heavier compared with manual race seats with all the power and adjusters.

Thanks for the info :thumbsup:

[Pete]

I hear the 1994-95 seats are lighter,have not checked for myself but will soon.

I also checked my 1991 seats and they wiegh about 45lbs with bathroom scale.

If you take off all the electronics and go with sliders will minus about 20 lbs each seat.:)

I know the 1994-95 door panels are half the weight of the earlier door panels from 7-8lbs to 4lbs each.:)

Pete

[Paul Workman]

I just picked up a set of pristine (black) base mo. 95 seats from Vet 2 Vet. The seat alone weighs 21.8# on the bathroom scales. According to V2V they will bolt directly to the existing (sport seat) track. Gonna find out - prolly this w/e.

I loved the seats in my previous 95 coupe. It will be nice to shed some weight, but being able to ride for more than a couple hours before my legs fall asleep would be the reason for my changing over to the standards.

P.

[Jeffvette]

I just picked up a set of pristine (black) base mo. 95 seats from Vet 2 Vet. The seat alone weighs 21.8# on the bathroom scales. According to V2V they will bolt directly to the existing (sport seat) track. Gonna find out - prolly this w/e.

I loved the seats in my previous 95 coupe. It will be nice to shed some weight, but being able to ride for more than a couple hours before my legs fall asleep would be the reason for my changing over to the standards.

P.


V2V is incorrect. I'm running the later style seats on the 90 seat track. What will not work is the lumbar equipment. Unless you do some major rewiring.

[DaveK]

I was looking at some aftermarket ones, just toying with the idea -

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/REAL-Leather-Racing-Seats-C4-Corvette-93-94-95-96-ZR1_W0QQitemZ380177957950QQcmdZViewItemQQptZMotors _Car_Truck_Parts_Accessories?hash=item58845f443e

Seems that it would probably be easier (and cheaper) to just get some manual seat tracks though.

I didn't realise that the door panels were lighter on the later ones. I actually have a set of later panels kicking around but the mounting method looked different so I never proceeded with the idea. What's the actual saving?

[-=Jeff=-]

V2V is incorrect. I'm running the later style seats on the 90 seat track. What will not work is the lumbar equipment. Unless you do some major rewiring.


Jeff,

Paul bought the BASE seats.. so there is no Lumbar or anything

so they will just Bolt up.. I have a set of 94-96 Frames for when I get tired of the 92 seats I have currently

[LGAFF]

My issue is not the weight of the seat but the fatazz that sits in them:mrgreen: