Recaro Sportster CS vs Stock - worth it?

[EAGLE5]

Originally Posted by BoyCrazy

Copy, thanks!

That would reduce it to 100 miles! Lol

Worth it.

[FNCrazy]

Originally Posted by jsimon7777

Worth it.

Of course, looking through ALL of them, I liked what is probably the most expensive ones they have. Heated AND vented seats?? Yes please!

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[EAGLE5]

You can also have your stock seats modified. I looked at doing that, getting ventilated stock seats. However, I don't drive the car enough to justify. I'm in a phase for cars where price>luxury.

[FNCrazy]

I'm going backwards. Lotus, Aston, AMG, BMW, so I'm missing creature comforts. Leather, heated seats, only the Merc AMG had a/c seats, but I actually plan on keeping this one forever,so I want to add in what I can.

Just can't afford it!

I make up 112% of what I say.

[EAGLE5]

I never had the ventilated seats. I came from BMW too. I much prefer the FR-S. Luxury is overrated.

[FNCrazy]

But, you don't miss the lights that turn to the same degree you turn your steering wheel to illuminate where you are actually going?

I make up 112% of what I say.

[EAGLE5]

Yes, I do, actually, because I drive a country road 7 nights a week!

[FNCrazy]

Originally Posted by jsimon7777

Luxury is overrated.

I came up from my first car being a manual choke with rust so bad in the floor pans we had a special floor mat so the rooster tail when raining didn't shoot into the passenger's face. It was a 78 Corolla in 93, and that was my definition of luxury for very many years. It was freedom.



I make up 112% of what I say.

[FNCrazy]

Originally Posted by jsimon7777

Yes, I do, actually, because I drive a country road 7 nights a week!

See, we need to figure out how to make a retrofit kit! We'd be rich!

I make up 112% of what I say.

[JDM4E]

Originally Posted by Vracer111

I have the regular, non SRS Recaro Sportster CS installed for the driver seat. I'm 6'2" about 185lbs, with 34" inseam. I custom mounted the seat to try and get it lower than stock, but at most the seating position is less than 1/2" lower than stock. Maximum comfort of the Sportster CS ultimately depends on how much rake angle you can get with the seat bottom - the more the better. But even with hardly any rake they are noticeably more comfortable than stock seats. 30 minutes is all I could comfortably take with the stock seats, long drives with them were torture.

Most Japanese car seats are like this for me, the seat bottoms just are totally wrong in contour and put pressure on the thighs and butt. The Sportster CS is an entirely different story, one of the most comfortable seats ever (even without optimal rake angle currently) - a drive all day in comfort seat. It also is a change in feel in driving the car...with the Sportster CS it's like you are one with the chassis (similar to a hard mounted race seat) and have so much more feedback of what the car is doing. They also hold you in place much more securely than the stock seats. The stock seats are ones you sit ON, the Sportster CS are seats you sit IN.

did you use Recaro rails?

[Vracer111]

Yes, I used the low profile RECARO slider/rails I had from my previous Recaro seat (Ergo Trend)

[JDM4E]

Today I have tried Sportster CS and while I love the shape, the seat is too wide on back/shoulders for me. I can slide in them, while have a snug fit in OEM seats. Problem is, that OEM has zero lumbar support any my back is hurting me. Doomed?

[Sh944]

Unless you are 100% track junkie, I think the point (and what Recaro does *very* well) is to keep your hips from sliding. If it's not wide enough at the shoulders, you'll be unable to get a comfortable spinal position, which is part of the problem that I have with the factory seats.

I have Recaro Sportster CS's in my FR-S, and they totally transformed the car as far as I am concerned. I still tell people that the name "FR-S" is an acronym for "fvcking rotten seats". Lol

[asraam]

Originally Posted by Sh944

Unless you are 100% track junkie, I think the point (and what Recaro does *very* well) is to keep your hips from sliding. If it's not wide enough at the shoulders, you'll be unable to get a comfortable spinal position, which is part of the problem that I have with the factory seats.

I have Recaro Sportster CS's in my FR-S, and they totally transformed the car as far as I am concerned. I still tell people that the name "FR-S" is an acronym for "fvcking rotten seats". Lol

I just recieved my Sportster CS this week and deciding if use sliders or not and just bolt them down... How do you have it?