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.
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
That seat looks like a
Yuck.
Yuck.
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.
Also forgot to say, they have adapter brackets for the corbeaus that let them bolt up to the stock slider brackets.
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.
Yeah, someone else mentioned a 1.5 hour road trip in them though...makes me scratch my head.