New seats!!

Here's some I shot today. I spent a few hours pulling the upper intake off to I can send it to Jet-Hot, then pulled my valve covers off so I can send them for chroming, now I'm working on my lower intake to send to Tmoss for porting. Here's your shots.
 

Attachments

  • Cobra interior.webp
    Cobra interior.webp
    17.6 KB · Views: 168
  • Cobra.webp
    Cobra.webp
    47.7 KB · Views: 127
stprorolla49 said:
holy **** thats huge!!! can you post that side view pic of your car CarNut?? im trying to gauge ride height with different springs and i remember you had a side view pic a while back...

Will do tomorrow. Had to take them off a while back for a project, but now that it's over I need to swap it back. I'll post it here when done AND all my old links should be restored for anyone doing a search.
 
Well I drove the car a bit today. These seats are deeper (front to back) than stock and I need to have the seat at the full forward position to achieve the same legroom as I did with the stockers. This is where the extra leg room comes from.

I measured the distance from the brake pedal to the base of the seat back on both seats.

Stock = 41"
Cr1 = 43 1/4"

InMyPrimeSVT - CRAZY! You're car is the cousin to mine.

Pics are on the way!!
 
stprorolla49 said:
holy **** thats huge!!! can you post that side view pic of your car CarNut?? im trying to gauge ride height with different springs and i remember you had a side view pic a while back...

Here is a couple pics of the side and the interior:

suspension%20passenger.gif


shifter%20new.gif


headlight%20new%20large.gif



I need to improve the quality of my pics, but I think this will do for now. The first pic doesn't even have my newer headlight kit.

I really like the drop I have, because it is not a lot yet still gets rid of the 4x4 look. The seats are great and look/feel way better than the cloth stockers.
 
InMyPrimeSVT said:
Here's some I shot today. I spent a few hours pulling the upper intake off to I can send it to Jet-Hot, then pulled my valve covers off so I can send them for chroming, now I'm working on my lower intake to send to Tmoss for porting. Here's your shots.


Blue seats do look great with a black interior. Nice wheels, too. Thanks for the pics Prime.
 
I3oostedCubes said:
Iam really interested in the weight difference. did you get a chance to get a wieght comparison?

I had already gotten the seats in when I remembered about weighing them. :bang: I might have to remove the seats to get them re-covered. I will weigh the Corbeaus when I do that.

Honestly, just moving the seats in and out, I didn't feel like I was saving a lot of weigh over the stock cloth seats in my Cobra. I read somewhere that the Cobras had magnesium frames, maybe so. The Corbeau is lighter until you put the slider on. I think my net weight savings was really only in the motor for the power driver's seat.
 
If you have an interest in selling your seats, pop them on Ebay. I sold mine to some kid in California for MORE than I bought my Corbeaus. Then he bought my back seat, and that's when I put a rear seat delete in. Not a bad deal.
 
Car Nut said:
Here is a couple pics of the side and the interior:

suspension%20passenger.gif


shifter%20new.gif


headlight%20new%20large.gif



I need to improve the quality of my pics, but I think this will do for now. The first pic doesn't even have my newer headlight kit.

I really like the drop I have, because it is not a lot yet still gets rid of the 4x4 look. The seats are great and look/feel way better than the cloth stockers.
thanks man....not lowe enuff for me tho...idk what it is, but its gotta be low....i think i may get coilovers cause they lower it a lot, but are also good for the track, which i will be going to...well all kno how bad weight transfer is with lowering springs:nonono:
 
stprorolla49 said:
thanks man....not lowe enuff for me tho...idk what it is, but its gotta be low....i think i may get coilovers cause they lower it a lot, but are also good for the track, which i will be going to...well all kno how bad weight transfer is with lowering springs:nonono:

I'm about 1/4 inch or less away from scraping my driveway right now due to the X-pipe. No clearance issues anywhere else I've been. The handling is incredible, but I'm sure it would not do as well at a dragstrip like you said. What about H&R Supersport springs? They provide good handling and almost a 2" drop. I think there are a few people on here with them who have posted pics in the past.

Back to the main topic:

When I took out my stock cloth front seats, the driver's seat and motorized slider was a whole lot heavier than the Corbeau seat and Corbeau slider. The stock passenger seat combo weighed more, too. I've still got everything, so I could probably weigh the stock stuff pretty easily.
 
Car Nut said:
I'm about 1/4 inch or less away from scraping my driveway right now due to the X-pipe. No clearance issues anywhere else I've been. The handling is incredible, but I'm sure it would not do as well at a dragstrip like you said. What about H&R Supersport springs? They provide good handling and almost a 2" drop. I think there are a few people on here with them who have posted pics in the past.

Back to the main topic:

When I took out my stock cloth front seats, the driver's seat and motorized slider was a whole lot heavier than the Corbeau seat and Corbeau slider. The stock passenger seat combo weighed more, too. I've still got everything, so I could probably weigh the stock stuff pretty easily.
yea i love the way the H&R supersports lower the car, and how well they handle evidently, so its either gonna be those, or 4 cyl springs in back, and coilovers up front...
 
Got some weights for you all!!

Okay here it goes:

Stock cloth Cobra Passenger seat: 40.5lbs
Stock cloth Cobra Driver's seat: 47.5lbs

Corbeau CR1 with Mustang Specific slider: 33lbs each seat

So you save 22lbs in the seat swap :banana:
 
Yeah, for some reason I was thinking 27lbs saved. So I'm glad you have better data. I swapped mine out about 4 years ago, so I couldnt remember. I suggest throwing a towel on the seats if you want to get more life out of them.
 
InMyPrimeSVT said:
Yeah, for some reason I was thinking 27lbs saved. So I'm glad you have better data. I swapped mine out about 4 years ago, so I couldnt remember. I suggest throwing a towel on the seats if you want to get more life out of them.

Did you have leather seats? Maybe that's the difference? :)

Are you saying that the seats wear out pretty quickly? The seats that I bought are at least two years old - I am the third owner. Is your car a DD?