Installing a kirkey seat

[mob]

Hey guys, so some of you may think I am crazy but I want to put a Kirkey seat in my car. My question is, is there anyway to make it work with the stock bracket? Or will I need to purchase anything else? The seat and cover is already expensive enough and I dont want to have to by anymore brackets to make it work. Also can I keep and use my stock seat belts for now since I dont have a rollcage and harness?

 

[mob]

Well I found the racecraft bracket to make it work, but does anyone know if i can just mount these seats to the stock rails?

 

[Noobz347]

Installing a kirkey seat

 

[CarMichael Angelo]

Well I found the racecraft bracket to make it work, but does anyone know if i can just mount these seats to the stock rails?

I would think that it is probably dangerous to use a kirkey seat w/o appropriate "stops" placed behind the seat. You might be able to download a installation guide from them that illustrates my point. Most of the time my experience w/ kirkey seats have been that they are about .060-.085 tig welded aluminum. Bracing the seat from behind is typically built in to the rollbar, so as to limit the stress on the bolts running through the floor of the seat into your mounts. It would suck if you were banging gears, and you find yourself rattling around in your car.

And you cannot use the stock 3 pt belt, as the sides of the seat are probably higher than your seat belt buckle. You will in effect be strapping the seat down and not your self.

 

[Boosted92LX]

I was going to chime in there, but Mike beat me to it. Kirkey seats look cool, but even with the supporting cast of race equipment needed for them, using them on the street is going to be a PITA. Smart money would be money spent making the car go mo bettah.

 

[Sharad]

Hey guys, so some of you may think I am crazy but I want to put a Kirkey seat in my car. My question is, is there anyway to make it work with the stock bracket? Or will I need to purchase anything else? The seat and cover is already expensive enough and I dont want to have to by anymore brackets to make it work. Also can I keep and use my stock seat belts for now since I dont have a rollcage and harness?

I like the Kirkeys, and I think they're pretty comfortable. They can't be too bad... Grandpa Seward just drove his car 4,000 miles round trip in them.

However, I have to go along with the others that said they should be installed & used properly. We have a pair of them in our True Street car, but they were installed with Kirkey seat mounts & back braces which were attached to custom fabbed brackets on the floorboard and the rollcage. And the 5-point harnesses are run through the seats as they should be.

The seats are nice, and super light, but I wouldn't use them if you're not planning to install them properly.

 

[hoopty5.0]

I like the Kirkeys, and I think they're pretty comfortable. They can't be too bad... Grandpa Seward just drove his car 4,000 miles round trip in them.

However, I have to go along with the others that said they should be installed & used properly. We have a pair of them in our True Street car, but they were installed with Kirkey seat mounts & back braces which were attached to custom fabbed brackets on the floorboard and the rollcage. And the 5-point harnesses are run through the seats as they should be.

The seats are nice, and super light, but I wouldn't use them if you're not planning to install them properly.

Grandpa Seward also complained of having a square shaped ass after the trip too! hahaha

 

[mob]

Yea I think you guys are right, which sucks cause theyre soooo nice. Time to keep lookin I guess.

 

[90lxcoupe]

I just put kirkeys in my car. I used the race craft brackets and i have a harness on the drivers side. I dont use the harness on the street. I use the stock seatbelts and they work fine. They go over my lap and clear the sides just fine. I like them so far. Been on a couple 1.5 hour trips and i wasnt hurting anymore than when i had the stock seats in it.

While i agree that you should properly brace the seats, you could make the arguement that the stock seats can become questionable with age and there is a chance the hinges on the seatback could fail under hard driving

 

[mob]

haha I hate you man, everytime I see these seats installed I instantly fall in love and say I dont care what anyone says I want them in my car, and then you go and post something like that. My stock seat is leaning soooo hard its the only reason I want a new seat, I want to upgrade to something good, my car isnt daily driven either.

 

[fiveohwblow]

That seat looks like a ing retarded 5 year olds idea of an alien ran over by a steam roller holy chit.....

Yuck.

 

[90lxcoupe]

opinions are like a ssholes....

 

[bentley429isBAC]

I like my corbeau forza II's. Comfortable, light and pretty cheap. They are about the same weight as the kirkeys. At the time of me buying them a lot of people had kirkeys so I was trying to be different.

Also forgot to say, they have adapter brackets for the corbeaus that let them bolt up to the stock slider brackets.

 

[stykthyn]

Everyones got one but no one wants to admit it.

 

[Boosted92LX]

but it'll make the car faster, right?






right?

 

[hoopty5.0]

Less weight is less weight

What's the rule of thumb? Every 100 lb is good for a tenth?

 

[Boosted92LX]

Less weight is less weight

What's the rule of thumb? Every 100 lb is good for a tenth?

Yeah I know, but let's be serious for a minute. My car is not a race car much like most of the cars owned by members here. I'm 41 years old and I'm not going to sacrifice comfort in a street driven car to save 25 or even 50 pounds of weight. Why would I do that? so on the rare occasion I go to the track I can shave .025 seconds? I can see it if you are a serious racer with a dedicated track car, that's how you win and that makes sense. However to put those seats in a 300-400hp(or less) street car when that could be money spent on actual performance parts seems like a not real swooft idea.

 

[hoopty5.0]

Yeah I know, but let's be serious for a minute. My car is not a race car much like most of the cars owned by members here. I'm 41 years old and I'm not going to sacrifice comfort in a street driven car to save 25 or even 50 pounds of weight. Why would I do that? so on the rare occasion I go to the track I can shave .025 seconds? I can see it if you are a serious racer with a dedicated track car, that's how you win and that makes sense. However to put those seats in a 300-400hp(or less) street car when that could be money spent on actual performance parts seems like a not real swooft idea.

Oh, definitely. Without a doubt pointless in a street car. I just remember Mob saying that this was supposed to be a track car.

 

[Boosted92LX]

Oh, definitely. Without a doubt pointless in a street car. I just remember Mob saying that this was supposed to be a track car.

Yeah, someone else mentioned a 1.5 hour road trip in them though...makes me scratch my head.

 

[90lxcoupe]

Yeah, someone else mentioned a 1.5 hour road trip in them though...makes me scratch my head.

Yep. That would be me, personally i like them, stock fox seats are not the most ergonomic things on the planet. I drive my car alot, so by the end of the summer i will know if i hate them or not. Like sharad said, Randy Seward drove from new mexico to florida in one. He said his but was pretty sore, but 1800 miles in a cadillac and id be sore.

In my case, the reason i went with the kirkeys was because in my car, there is really nowhere else to remove weight. The heats not coming out, and im not gonna go at it with a hole saw, so the seats were an easy way to drop weight.