944 seats

[Peter Burrowes]

Has anyone replaced thier front seats with aftermarket ones? I see them on Ebay for around $150.00 ea and my seats are shot on the 944 I just bought. Any thoughts/help wpould be appreciated and an idea of how difficult it might be

[kwikt 911]

I'm in the same boat with the 968.

[Harrock]

You'd probably just need brackets to fit them into the car. Wedge Engineering makes custom brackets, you just measure the holes on the seat and tell them what car it's for.

[FrenchToast]

JDM Sport Seats

Take care!

[klaus]

Fitting the seats may or may not be a big pain, and the quality of the seats will not be as good as the originals, but to me the most important aspect of cheap seats would be safety. If you happend to get in an accident those cheap seats would fold up like lawn chairs.

Best bet, get the factory seats recovered by someone local to you (most towns have shops that can do the work), or do it yourself with one of the online kits, or perhaps look for a used pair in the FS secion.

[962porsche]

being the owner of a race fabrication shop i have replaced god knows how many seat over the years . if your a porsche purest you would want ot try and keep the stock porsche seats if it's a street car . the biggest reason is it will help hold the cars value . but on the other hand the cost of good set of porsche seats is some time more than some of the 944's are worth .
recovering a porsche seat is not that hard to do .
you could replace them with some aftermarket ones . i had a set of cheap ones in stalled in one of my daily drivers that i got from jegs for about 200 each . i was hit from behind when i was at a total stop from a mini van that was going about 55 miles an hour and the seat held up . the rear end crash put me the icu for 3 days . the hit was so hard it put the rear wheels under were the back seats are . and push my car 93 ' 8" into a building so the cops could only make a guess as to how fast the girl was going that hit me . but to push a car at a total stop that far they said she had to be doing at the least 55 in a 45 zone .



when your installing the after market seats you can in most cases use the porsche sliders . they unbolt from the bottoms of the seats with two 6MM alen head bolts . you can in most cases just get some 3/16 X2" flat stock and make some cross brackets from one slider to the other and bolt the new seat to them .
i use porsche sliders alot when i'm installing racing seats in cars for many reasons . one is that they are a low profile slider the other is they are of good quality so to pass tach the seat can not rock at all .
you do have options just pick the one that is going to work for you and not take away any of the value of your car .

[flash968]

i have a custom set of recaro sportlines in the blue 968