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Old 09-15-2004, 04:50 PM
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has anyone replaced the stock front/rear seats? How much do they weigh?
I was wondering if anyone has pulled the stock front and/or rear seats and replaced the front with lighter racing seats. Any idea how heavy the front stock seats are? those airbags can't be light.
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No use replacing the back ones. They weight about 5 pounds and are sitting on top of metal. They are just pads.

The front ones I've seen replaced, but didn't ask any questions about them...
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Old 09-17-2004, 03:13 AM
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Originally Posted by robertdot
No use replacing the back ones. They weigh about 5 pounds...
Let's not overexaggerate here... I think they're more like 4lbs. 5oz. I did see a photo of an RX-8 from Japan that replaced the rears with buckets on this forum somewhere... pretty sure that added weight to it. Sorry, didn't have a chance to weigh the stock fronts when I replaced them with the Sparcos.
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Just took out my drivers seat to fit a "racing" seat and a stock leather power drivers seat is 55 LBS. The one I replaced it with was 41 LBS. That however is not why I did this.
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Old 09-22-2004, 12:39 AM
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wow, 55lb? I'm guesing the non power ones would be about 10lb lighter, so we'll say 45lb. Thanks for the info
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