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Old 01-16-2006, 11:27 PM
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Just weighed my seats and thought I'd share so I can help when someone searches this topic in 5 years (if search works then).

Power leather Z28 seat: 40lbs
Manual leather Z28 seat: 32lbs

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I have heard the transam seats are even heavier. Hopefully the difference in the stock power leather T/A seat to a kirkey alum racing seat is enough to offset the increase in weight from a 8 pt chromoly cage.... would make my life easier.
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Originally Posted by JL ws-6
I have heard the transam seats are even heavier. Hopefully the difference in the stock power leather T/A seat to a kirkey alum racing seat is enough to offset the increase in weight from a 8 pt chromoly cage.... would make my life easier.
Why are you going to be running an 8 pt? If you only plan on running tens run a 6 or 5 pt and save some weight.

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Which seats? driver ,both front, all ??

clarify to me plzz
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Originally Posted by prostock_bigblock
Which seats? driver ,both front, all ??

clarify to me plzz
Passenger seats don't come in manual or power
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^ Haha. Thanks for the info. I havnt been to the track yet, but when I do I plan on going almost completely gutted. Meaning most of the panels out, rear and passanger seats out. Thanks to your info , I'd almost be taking out 40 lbs from my car. Good stuff.
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Originally Posted by Nate_Taufer
Why are you going to be running an 8 pt? If you only plan on running tens run a 6 or 5 pt and save some weight.

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More for chassis rigidity... and should I ever need to upgrade it to a 10 pt, it will be less work.
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does anyone know the difference between power leather drivers to a manual cloth drivers seat
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Originally Posted by BADFNZ
Just weighed my seats and thought I'd share so I can help when someone searches this topic in 5 years (if search works then).

Power leather Z28 seat: 40lbs
Manual leather Z28 seat: 32lbs

As you were.

Did you weigh the individual parts of the seat? I took mine apart a month ago and weighed everything. Just the slider itself is 20lb. So if some one was to go out and get lightweight seats, and use the stock sliders they would only be droping about 5lb. Not worth it to me.

I took the seats completly apart swiss cheesed the seat pan, cut off the outer edge of the big bar that runs through the top part of the seat, and swiss cheesed the stock sliders. When I was done, the drivers side was 26lb, and the passenger side was 24lb.
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Originally Posted by 11SECSS
does anyone know the difference between power leather drivers to a manual cloth drivers seat

My manual cloth seat was 32lb.
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im almost positive that my passenger leather seat is around 54lbs i heard.

and the driver side is even heavier. just more reason for me to get racing seats

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My TA seats, power and leather, weighed in at 90 lbs. for both. The drivers side weighed 3-5 lbs more than the passenger.
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Originally Posted by foggedz
Did you weigh the individual parts of the seat? I took mine apart a month ago and weighed everything. Just the slider itself is 20lb. So if some one was to go out and get lightweight seats, and use the stock sliders they would only be droping about 5lb. Not worth it to me.

I took the seats completly apart swiss cheesed the seat pan, cut off the outer edge of the big bar that runs through the top part of the seat, and swiss cheesed the stock sliders. When I was done, the drivers side was 26lb, and the passenger side was 24lb.
back from the dead, im very interested in this. how do you take the seat apart?
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Originally Posted by JL ws-6
I have heard the transam seats are even heavier. Hopefully the difference in the stock power leather T/A seat to a kirkey alum racing seat is enough to offset the increase in weight from a 8 pt chromoly cage.... would make my life easier.
Hey, I am doing that exact same thing! I'm taking out both front seats though and replacing with 1 Kirkey and a 6-point. I did a little research and just from the seats it should (-) 80 pounds!
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Last time I took them out I put them on the bathroom scale:

Trans Am power leather seat with inflatable lumbar and bulsters [Drivers Side]: 46lbs
Trans Am power non power leather seat with inflatable lumbar and bulste [Passiger Side]: 42lbs

Thats the weights I got on the scale...
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Originally Posted by foggedz
Did you weigh the individual parts of the seat? I took mine apart a month ago and weighed everything. Just the slider itself is 20lb. So if some one was to go out and get lightweight seats, and use the stock sliders they would only be droping about 5lb. Not worth it to me.

I took the seats completly apart swiss cheesed the seat pan, cut off the outer edge of the big bar that runs through the top part of the seat, and swiss cheesed the stock sliders. When I was done, the drivers side was 26lb, and the passenger side was 24lb.
Got any pics?

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I dont have any pics of them during modification. When all done with the seat covers on they look completly stock.
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Originally Posted by WS6TransAm01
Last time I took them out I put them on the bathroom scale:

Trans Am power leather seat with inflatable lumbar and bulsters [Drivers Side]: 46lbs
Trans Am power non power leather seat with inflatable lumbar and bulste [Passiger Side]: 42lbs

Thats the weights I got on the scale...
I did the same thing Alex. I was within a pound of what you came up with.
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I thought they weighed a lot more too. But I did take my passenger leather seat out and was suprised how light it was. I did not weigh it, but it felt really light. maybe 20#.



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