Thought you'd find interesting that:

1. Standard leather trim seat 4 way elect....52lbs

2. Standard cloth RSA sport seat 4way elect.....50lbs

3. Leather Recaro 964 Speedster seat.....30lbs

All seats weighed w/sliders.

Be interested to know:

1. Weight of Recaro pole position cloth w/sliders
2. Weight of Recaro pole position leather w/sliders

Thought the RSA seats would weigh less!

 

Well, that just underlines that the RSA was a cheaper not lighter version of the standard C2!

 

Here you go:

964 Front seat (comfort, normal) each 52.5
964 RS Bucket seat including mounts, each 30.5
Recaro Pole Position including BK mounts, each 31.3
Cobra Misano R, incl mounts, each 37.5
996 carbon buckets, incl mounts, each 25.0
997 GT3 RS euro buckets, each, mounts? 22.9
997 Adaptive Sports seats, each 64.0
997 Non Adaptive sports seats, each 48.6

 

FWIW, a cloth Sparco Evo without sliders weighs 16 lbs.

 

HEY!

In response to Anato:

The RSA was LIGHTER, CHEEPER, AND FASTER than the C2. Given the choice, in 1993, there was NO REASON to buy a C2 in my opinion. Unless you needed power steering, mirrors, rear seats, etc. I figure this should start an argument

In todays market I feel lucky to still have my RSA..............I believe what several people on this board say. That you could buy a C2 and have tons of money left for upgrades...........

But back then - it was the way to go - and I have loved mine since day one.......

Flagg

 

Flagg, especially when you consider in 1993 the RSA was $10,000 less money than the C 2 and has held its value much better than the standard C 2. Nowadays the C 2 is a better buy and the difference between the C 2 and the RSA could be used to make many desirable mods.

 

Any idea what SPG's weigh?

Marc

 

I was doing a bit of weighing today and the 964RS leather seat without runners weighs 8.35kgs which is 18.4 lbs.

 

i have the cloth version in my car i will weigh one of them with out the rails. just as a comparison
sean

 

Jet, could you weigh it w/the rails? I wanted to do the comparo w/rails as the stock seats don't take kindly to trying to remove them. Plust gives a more comprehensive figure on what's actually going in the car. That why I posted my 964 Speedster w/rails. Many thanks.

 

There is no need to weigh it with rails as we know the weight of my seats with rails - 30.5 lbs. As the rails etc are the same, we just take the difference between our seats off that figure to give the answer.

I guess the real point of my post is to point out that the weight of the runners etc is 12 lbs.

 

all rails/mounts weigh the same? aftermarket and stock? be interested to know if any are lighter for the recaros.

 

Recaro sliders only (complete) (2 sliders and "bar" 5lbs
i can weigh the side brackets when i get home and an SPG (medium)

 

I was refering to stock. The rails and mounts are the same for the 964RS cloth and leather seats.

It does raise an interesting question about mounts. I have always taken as fact the weight of the 964RS seat plus runners/mounts being 30.5 lbs. I have seen this from a few sources. However, this implies, based on the weight of my seat, that the stock runners and mounts weigh 12 lbs. This seems high.

I think what would be most useful would be to weigh each seperately. This could be relevent as I know, for example, that the metal Recaro mounts weight 1.1kgs (2.42 lbs) and the carbon fibre ones weigh 0.34kgs (0.75 lbs).

 

The sliders are v.heavy. If I take my Speedster seat apart, i'll weigh the sliders and side mounts.