Need seat suggestions - Extra large driver (Page 1 of 2)

We've enjoyed our Corbeau seat.  I'm not quite that large, but our sizes range from 5'5 to 6'2 and 130 to 260 pounds.  They're comfy, have a wide variety of sizes, and are reasonably priced.

http://www.corbeau.com/

Spud, are you running a seat on the stock VW sliders still?

If yes, I don't have to tell you that it takes 5 seconds to yank the seat all the way forward off the track, and about 45 seconds to put another (bigger) seat in& thread the belts back into their slots.

Might be better than trying to find a magic seat that can accommodate such differing sizes.

When you find a seat that's big enough, you might want to look into making inserts for your smaller drivers. I reckon you could make some up by taking some of that expanding foam crap, filling and sealing a bag of it, and then sitting your driver in it before it starts to set up (and then feeding and watering the driver while it hardens around him, cocooning him into the seat). When it's set up, pull the driver and trim the foam as necessary.

It was Arse-Sweat-a-Palooza in August.

I watched the first driver change, mouth agape. The big guy crawls out the passenger side door (faster) and three guys descend on the car with wrenches. Big seat out, average seat installed.

A better solution would be to get seat that fits the big guy with minimal padding, and then make inserts for each driver. Go rent Le Mans (the movie with Steve McQueen) and watch them change seat pads at the driver changes. That's what you want to build. Cotton sheeting for the front and back and some fire resistant expanding foam in between. Line the seat and the driver with plastic so they don't stick when  molding

The guys pitting next to us did the insert for their car and it worked pretty well for them.  Our drivers range for 5'10" to 6'4" but fortunately width wise we were able to use the non wide corbeau.  It was also really comfy.

I know Corbeau has a good selection of rails.  They had them for our Cutlass Ciera, athough since we waited until after we were accepted to buy the seat we really didn't want to wait the 6-8 weeks for them to build the rails, also not sure what height they would have been since we had to lower the seat quite a bit from stock so the tall guy would be safely below the cage.  We just found a spot where I  (5'10" guy) could reach the pedals and see fine and to tall guy could fit and not be uncomfortable. 

Cage clearance is the thing you also have to think about we assumed it would be fine originally until we mounted the seat since the race seat is much closer to straight up than the seats that came with the car.

We have 5'7 and 6'3 drivers and the only seat we've found that works for the tall guy is the Sparco Evo 2.  It's the seat you see in the Reasonably Priced Car.

Fixed.

Here's a link to how the big teams accomplish seat inserts:

http://www.pegasusautoracing.com/docume … =TECH00005

we have an 18" Kirkey Intermediate RR Seat. im 5'11 and over 300lbs. fits me like a glove. someone taller than that is only an issue where it's placed in the car. Mine's down really low to the point that I've had some drivers complain it's too low. for the most part though i find it quite comfy.

I am 6 2 300+. We are running a Corbeau seat, had to spread the bottom out a little. I run it with the cushion out of the buttom.

Saferacer appears to list the specs. For example:
http://www.saferacer.com/g-force-pro-6p … ductid=953

I'm running a Kirkey intermediate road rae seat 18"  i'm 6'3 300 barrel chested no  Ass and my shortest driver is 5'7 180  and other drivers range from up to 6'8  . we got a munch of memory foam .