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Old 09-24-2019, 07:02 AM   #9380 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by jchammond View Post
Haven’t searched the forum; but can anyone point me in the right direction for a low/wide comfortable seat for the Z ?
Hard to spend money without actually sitting in something.
Height/weight/waist 6’6”,275#,40’ish
I'm ab your size minus 2 inches and a few lbs. Here's what I did:

Buy Sparco Chrono.

Shave the butt portion of the seat bottom by an inch.

Remove the thigh bolsters and re-weld the metal thigh framework so it's on the far outside of the seat framework - this gives you ab another 2 inches of hip room.

Fab a seat mount that's as low as it can go.

You save 3/4 of an inch by not using seat rails so you need to figure out exactly where you want the seat to sit before drilling the seat mount to fit the seat.

I like to drive upright. Didnt care ab reclining. So my seat was against the rear of the compartment. This means the rear right seat mount/floor bolt is not accessible from above. I ended up cutting a stubby 14mm ratchet wrench that had a reverse switch and welding it to that bolt's head.


Frankly, it all was a massive pain in the *** and I ended up adding rails after a year. But with your height idk if you could...

Feel free to hit me up if you have further Qs or ideas. I'm looking to improve the situation too

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