Stock seat look, racing seat performance?
 

Disclaimer: I realize this is a rediculus question. Just bear with me.

My full intention was to get Bride Gaia seats with Lomax rails. This setup seems to be the best for the 8. Good seat height, "hugging" seats, not a bad price (gulp).

I was ready to hit the buy button the other day but ran into a snag online. I had to wait several days to call the company back and by that time my brain had time to work. (this is not a good thing.)

What I started thinking was that for the kind of cash that you would put down for brides, maybe I could find someone to "edit" my stock seats. If I could just have the driverside grip my butt and back alittle more, I would be happy. Certainly, this kind of work is in the same ballpark as a set of two brides? Again I realize this is way out there, but does anyone know anyone (short of Foose or someone of that ilk) that could professionally modify a stock seat? The way I see it, this is the best of both worlds; no rice, no loose butt, keep the airbags, keep the power seat.

This is done for motorcycles quite a bit (for obvious reasons)

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My bro-in-law works for a custom auto installer. One guy he works with actually re-upholsters stock and aftermarket seats with leather or what ever you want. He also said that it is pretty common to add padding to stock seats when they have some specific deficit that the customer wants fixed. While this sounds well and good, I would be concerned that the guy that does the stitching (doing it for thirty years) would do a good looking job, but maybe miss some of the "science" that goes into making a semi-race seat. Anyone know if there are companys or shops that do this as a speciality?

As far as the stock seat goes, I haven't seen a good way to install a 4+ point harness. The problem being the shoulder belts. If you are looking for this, the Bride would be the way to go if you were installing the harness.

whats the price your looking at for the seats i found some brand new shipped to the door sparco evo II for $1250.00 if thats something your looking for then i will see if they still there.but if thats to rich for ya then maybe you could say fuck it and try to custom it to you yourselve and then take it to get sewn the only big ( i stress big) difference between stock and racing for the sticthing is that most stock is single or double but a racing is quadruple or better. but thats about it for my knowledge on sets hope i helped

and for the harnesses with the stock seats before you have the guy sew it up find where you want to place you harness and cut them in and have place a plastic slevve in the hole big enough for you to pass the harnesses thru like bigg pvc pipe and have the guy sew those up to and vawla you have some pretty nice ass seats

Thanks for the comments and advice, particularly regarding the stitching. Regarding harnesses, this is not a priority. I am comfortable with the current three points. My main priority is limiting "butt-slip". Certainly, any well-fit aftermarket seat will perform; however, why spend +$4k on two seats that will label me a ricer when I could have a pro 'remanufacture' only my driver seat to my specification. This has the benifit of retaining airbags, retaining the conservative "look" and only modifing the seat that will be used.

The problem is "who?" As of yet, I haven't found anyone that might be able to do this.

i got two questions to help your search for what sounds like " the perfect sleeper seats"

1: where are you located i need a zip and a state
2: how much is too much be honest and not cheap i know some people here and there and i see what can happen.

Sure.

1:20902 in Maryland
2:Enough to get the job done. Not so much as to be stupid. Generally what someone would pay for one betterseat. (where better is between good and best and good is retail sparco, recaro, bride, and best are the seats in a ferrari. There is an exponential gradient there.)

cool i check it out for ya

bro i think the best thing to do is to add padding under the fabric and have it sewn up . hey i got a guy who will do it and i personally know he does great work and he do it for 700 bones for all and fit it with leather but he is in cleveland , tn

Bro i think there i will have something for you in your area tommorrow ish depending on when they hit me back and i will let you know i told you about the guy i know to give you some hope he charges 700 for all four with the custom work

:rock: Thanks! You rock.

so the my guy told me about this place he knows close to that area but it might be a bit aways remeber im going or state and zip. he said one of his buddys for waaaaaaaaaaaay back when use to work here and i looked them up they have a web site its http://www.raycoautoservice.com/ i don't know if i helped but man i couldn't seem to swing anything else. call them up contact info there and simply ask if the do "custon work on seats" they say yes you i read thru the website and thees a 10% discount off labor for mentioning the website and make sure you get a quote before mentioning so he don't bump it up 10% to break even one seat with extra sticth and padding should run you about 400 at the most the absolute most if he wants more roll out and i help you for square one again ok later and good luck bro.