New fox seats and cover from Ford

2000xp8 said:

There was an autoblog post about these seats the day they came out.
Personally, i love them. But they are surely going to be expensive and you are most likely going to have a rear matching seat problem.

It is what it is, recaros came in a bunch of high end cars, so even when on the used, ruined, refinished market, they are costly.

I've had mine for i'd guess 6-8 years (except i personally had to have netted headrests). Used with Wedge brackets.
Later i had the rears redone to match. When i bought them, they were a serious mess. $250 for the seats, $900 to have them redone, $400 worth of brackets and sliders and $600 to have the rears done to match.
Oddly enough, if you take the seats apart, 2 (that's right two) of these seats fit in a 30x30 box.




There aren't a lot of other seats to actually compare recaros to.
Flofits work, the corbeau GTS II is ok (but i still wouldn't run those) and most others lack the styling to look right a foxbody or any other 80's car.
For me seats have to be period correct.
Personally i'm not fond of any the audi r8 style seats in a fox. Many of which are probably better support for racing, but i don't drive a race car, so...

Edit: Also my sliders are tabbed, which have a few little holes on the front and back, the wedge brackets accepted tabbed sliders and it allows you to pitch the seats forward or back. Which was helpful.
I originally bought a set of 79 pace car brackets. I even sectioned them to change the position (they are tall enough for it) and they still didn't work, not matter how i sliced it, they pitched my knees up into the steering wheel.
I'm 6'1 and i can put my seat so far back that i can barely touch the pedals.

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