tbh im not sure. a lot of people strongly advise against running a 3 point with a fixed back bucket.
I think you need to go back and do some research of your own before you get on here looking for suggestions. For starters you just said you are fine with reclineable or fixed back but want FIA. Only fixed back seats are FIA compliant. Then you said you are worried about fixed back with a stock seat belt (it works fine). So what do you actually want. Secondly autox doesn't care if your seat is FIA compliant, seeing as you can show up in any shitbox daily driver and run with your stock seats. If you are heavily tracking in a series then this comes into play.
It's hard for me to justify the recaro cs when they're 10-15% the price of the car but it's sounding more and more like those are the ones..
They are about the best "sports" seat there is out there and certainly the most comfortable. There's a reason that manufacturers use them in stock cars. Something to consider though, these sit as high if not higher then factory seats. The reason I went Pole Position over these was for head clearance.
Gotcha. I was under the impression that the bracket/slider was what determined height and you could always just buy a lower bracket? Also under seat vs side mounting.
Partially correct. The style of Seat determines how it's mounted. The CS and other reclinable seats are bottom mount so you are limited to what you can do and how low you can get it, where the Pole position or other fixed back are side mount and can adjust lower. But if you're the only one driving it, could always just go fixed mount for the lowest possible position.
Gotcha. So the pole position ABEis specifically designed to work with a stock seatbelt? I was looking at the Sparco QRT Evo but that is very much NOT designed for a stock seat belt.
Also do these work with the stock seatbelt?
This is how mine sits with the stock seatbelt, I don't have any issues. If you want, you could get a different seatbelt that was more flexible and make it fit through the hole.
Wow, I'm 6'3 and they definitely would not have worked for me, my head was tilted and on the roof with the oem and I know from others who measured they are the same height. With my Pole Position I gained a 2 inches in all areas and now my helmet clears with tons of space.
Measuring seems like a reliable way to determine if it would fit or help. However, actually buying it, installing, and living with it is a better way. Measuring doesn't take into account compression of the seat base, how one might prefer to sit in seats differently, and break-in of materials. IIRC, the Sportster got me about an inch of extra headroom. But I think it took a couple months to get to that point. Either way, it is certainly lower than OEM.
Seems like one he'll of an expensive gamble to determine if it "might" fix my issue. Where my measurements I knew immediately it would work. But to each their own.
Agreed. My point was just that measuring isn't necessarily the best way to determine if a seat will fit or provide enough headroom. If I were to have used that approach I may have thought the Sportster would not work for me when in fact it has been an excellent choice.
The username is magically ironic.
Super helpful, thanks!
Nah wuz mate.
