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12-14-2011, 02:38 PM | #81 |
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Re: Stock seat clarification please
If they hadn't allowed all the other improvements we wouldn't have 1967 cars running 9's at over 135 MPH and the "safer" seats would be less of an issue. The top of this slippery slope started a long time ago.
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Re: Stock seat clarification please
How can this be a weight issue? Hell i have 400 pds in the trunk to make weight??
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12-15-2011, 12:28 PM | #83 |
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Re: Stock seat clarification please
What he said
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12-15-2011, 01:22 PM | #84 |
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Re: Stock seat clarification please
Overheard somewhere deep in the Stock pits.....
" I sure wish they would let us replace our old seats with lightweight ones. Why? I need to get rid of some more weight. The lightweight brakes helped but my car is still 75 lbs heavy." |
12-15-2011, 03:45 PM | #85 |
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There ARE those of us who don't have hundreds of pounds in the trunk !
My car, with no ballast at all, and 10 gallons of fuel, is 8 pounds over minimum weight. a 30 pound lighter seat would allow me to put that 30 pounds where it would help with weight transfer. However, as a restorer at heart, I like my newly re-upholstered factory bench seat.
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12-15-2011, 04:24 PM | #87 |
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Re: Stock seat clarification please
Seats; Stock appearing and weighing equal or greater than original seat.
Sounds like pistons, pushrods, etc doesn't it? Kirkey seats? No. Stock appearing safer seats? Yes. |
12-15-2011, 05:03 PM | #88 |
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And will these seats need to be replaced every 2 years or re-cert. Sorry, I couldn't help myself. In no way am I against the interest of safety but is this not another gate being opened! Careful what you ask for. Re-engineering what we have may be best. If tech has the manpower and time to remove upholstery and create a blueprint of every seat so be it. Doug
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Re: Stock seat clarification please
If most of us ( including me) were close to the 170 pounds for NHRA driver weight,I really don"t think the lighter seats would be an issue.
http://usgovinfo.about.com/od/health...tallbutfat.htm I could go either way on this.I would love a lighter seat,but feel perfectly safe in my HEAVY factory bucket seat. |
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