Schnell 911

I removed my seats prior to roll bar install and I was shocked how heavy the stock seats were. Damn near strained my back. Just thought I would share. GT3 seat upgrade???




2006 997.1 Seats removed.





Drivers Seat weight





Passengers Seat weight

Bruce In Philly

It just shows what Porsche values these days... not good for those who want to own and drive a "sports car".

The seats in my 2000 Boxster S, the same seats Porsche made for years and years, were way more comfortable and all manual than these crazy adjustable seats in my 2000 C2S that I can never get right.

Peace
Bruce in Philly

DC911S

Are those the 12 way power seats?

Schnell 911

yes

mike cap

The seats weight a ton. Two person job in and out to save your back and door jambs.

Hella-Buggin'

I have a 996 GT3 seat that I swap in for DE season. It's crazy the difference in weight. Getting the power seat out by myself is doable and I've done it enough to have a syste down at this point but lifting the GT3 seat in is breeze.

kisik

Hey guys, anybody has a resistor hack document for disabling airbag warning when swapping for non-airbag GT3 seats? It did work on a driver seat but not on passenger for some reason.
Trying to help a friend to avoid paying for PIWIS service.

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997.1 C2S

Hella-Buggin'

I think if you have Durametric Pro you can disable it.

white rock

Is it just those 4 bolts and electrical to remove? How long does it take and is there any anomalies you have to share from the process?

mickfluff

what he said above also...

I am doing a roll bar as well, just came in from Germany and having dealer install in a few weeks. Was quoted 3hrs. Which one did you go with and please post updated pics..

I did the tequipment with NO diagonal bar to mount to seat belt mounts... also adding the rennline fire extinguisher kit as that is also a seat out install .....so mine as well when the seats are out add it.

nwGTS

Driver side:
Remove front plastic seat rail covers. Remove front two and rear two bolts. Disconnect yellow airbag connector. (Optional: disconnect heated and powered seat connector) Remove seat.

Passenger side:
Remove front plastic seat rail covers. Remove front two and rear two bolts. Disconnect yellow airbag connector. Disconnect weight sensor connector (Optional: disconnect heated and powered seat connector) Remove seat.

So, really the only difference is the passenger side has the weight sensor connector.

Put pads EVERYWHERE. Dash, doors, sills, steering wheel, center console.
Those seat rails just love to stick out and scrape or scratch things. Also keep your hands clear of the slide release handle for obvious reasons.

It's take 30-45 minutes to remove both seats alone.

Sneaky Pete

And in keeping in RL fashion for a sidetrack.....I'm looking at a set of sport seats. My seats are heated. How do I know that the sport seats are heated? Is there a special plug that identifies heated seats?

captainbaker

I use a heavy moving blanket to protect the door sill and tilt-roll the seat out onto another thick moving blanket. One man job and back in tact.

nwGTS

I'd assume so, my fellow cheesehead friend, but I went from heated sport seats to GT2 buckets. So, that wasn't a concern for me. I'm sure someone else here will know.

Petza914

I put 997 manual sport seats into my 928 Spyder and added the Rennline mount, but wanted it on the Passenger Seat to not impact my leg room, since I'm always in the car driving, and a Passenger isn't. Details and photos are below the line for anyone interested.

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• I created three new holes in the steel under-seat metal that lined up with the holes in the Rennline bracket (4th would've been on an odd raised circle so I skipped that one and used a square of foam trim tape to anchor that one).
• I drilled out some aluminum spacers one size so I could use larger 6mm stainless bolts I have on-hand and then fished 3 flange nuts up beneath the black seat metal and lined them up with my holes - the seat foam holds them in place nicely. The spacers optimize the angle of the mount to keep it away from the passenger's legs, close to the floor, but still allow for full seat travel fore & aft.
• I had to remove one of the 3 mounting arms for the seat control box since the extinguisher bracket now resides where it went, then just gently started all 3 bolts until they engaged with the flange nuts, and all three are tight, and the mount rock solid.
• Anywhere there was risk of contact that could result in a noise or vibration, I stuck a piece of fuzzy velcro as an isolator.

It turned out really good - the curved edge is on the side of the manual fore/aft release handle and the small HalGuard extinguisher is well located relative to the seat and partially tucked under to not interfere with the passenger's legs. I also wrapped the back of the seat in CF vinyl to protect it from the kids feet and make it go with the rest of the interior.