- When it comes down to aftermarket
modifications for your car,
the first thing you're probably gonna tackle
and the first things you're probably gonna think about
is you gotta get some new suspension,
you gonna get some new wheels and tires
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You're gonna do, like, an exhaust.
You're gonna do couple other things.
Maybe add some aero here and there,
get some window tint,
but the one thing that probably gets overlooked the most
and probably gets put off until, like, the last thing
are interior modifications,
and I'm here today for this episode
of The Build Sheet to talk
about aftermarket seats
and why you should maybe just pick up a pair
of aftermarket seats or
just run a set of aftermarket
seats in your car.
But before we go ahead and get into it,
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So, when you think about it,
what are like the most, like common parts
that you come into contact with your car,
it'd be your steering wheel,
probably your shift knob,
your pedals, and then of course you have your seats.
And when it comes down to it,
no matter if you have good suspension in your car,
if you have good tires,
if you have everything else to keep
the car planted on the road,
the seat is what keeps you planted in the car.
And it keeps you from sliding about and rolling
around the whole inside of your car,
so if you have some older seats,
maybe it's an older car,
or maybe they didn't offer
that much support from the beginning,
aftermarket seats might be
something that you might wanna be looking into.
And let's face it, you're a car enthusiast,
I'm a car enthusiast.
If you're watching this, you're probably a car enthusiast.
And we like to, you know, drive our cars,
whether that be taking it to the track
for the first time or
maybe trying out autocross,
or maybe just sending it a little more aggressively
through the empty roundabout.
The last thing you want to have happen
is when you're out cruising in your 98 eclipse
through some back roads and then
you're being tossed all around the inside of your car
because your seats have no support to them.
So, adding a seat or a pair of seats
if you actually care about
the passenger in the vehicle with you,
can be really beneficial in keeping yourself
and your passengers planted inside
the car while you're driving, you know, aggressively
or more aggressive than normal.
Today there are tons of brands out there
that make aftermarket sport seats or
racing seats or sport racing application seats
for everyday vehicles.
You can find just about a seat or a bracket
to make a seat work for any vehicle out there.
You have companies such as Recaro, Sparko, Bride,
Corbeau, NRG, all these other companies out there
that are making these seats for a bunch
of different vehicles,
and they make 'em for
a bunch of different purposes.
Not only is it just like race-oriented,
you can also get seats that are
more like comfort-oriented or
maybe like just sport daily driver base
if that's something that you want to go with.
So we actually have a pair of Corbeau seats
in house that we're gonna go ahead
and take a look at
and kind of compare
to our old E30 seats,
so we got a pair of Corbeau seats
for our E30.
Shout out to Corbeau for hooking us up with those.
We're gonna go ahead, pull those up, take a look at 'em
and just kind of compare the differences
and like the advantages of having
an aftermarket seat.
So, lets go take a look.
So here we have our original E30 seats
right out of the car
and right next to it
we have our brand new Corbeau RRS
in the black carbon vinyl.
Now the RRS is straight from their sport line
meaning that they have different lines of seats
that they offer.
Their sport line being the line that is like
offered for like more of like a daily driver
who wants a little bit of like, you know,
a sport look and get a little bit of performance
out of it, but isn't gonna be like
super uncomfortable.
It's gonna be more of an entry level price.
You know, it's gonna be something that
you can run in an every day car.
So what that means is that also gives the
option that if you want something
very race oriented,
if you want like the straight bucket seat
with like the carbon backing and
everything like that, that doesn't
have any adjustability,
you can get that as well,
it's just offered in a higher tier line.
So, if you're building a car that's
gonna see nothing but track time,
that might be the seat that
you want to go with.
So, this becomes important because
race seats are designed for performance
and safety first more than anything else.
So if you get into those higher tier seats,
the ones that are specifically designed
to be on the track,
designed to be in race cars,
you're not gonna get a whole lot of comfort
or adjustability out of them.
So in turn, that's why you get seats like
the RRS here that has the reclinable back
on it that has the lumbar support and
a couple other just amenities so
just to make sure that you can stand
driving in the car for more than a couple of hours
is all wanting to do like, you know,
hop out of the (bleep) thing.
So, these here offer the same performance
that you get out of a racing seat
but still feature things
such as the reclinability.
You can actually get them with the
heated option, if you'd like,
if you want heated seats.
And you can actually stand driving
in them for more than a few hours
without wanting to hop out of the car.
So, like I mentioned before,
Corbeau was really nice and hooked us up
with the 70's RRS's for our E30 build.
Now we decided to go with the RRS in
the sport line, because it really suited
what we need for the car
and I would imagine a lot of you guys out
there watching this video would wanna go
with something like this, too.
So, basically, we just wanted something
to tie in better with the interior
that we are going with.
So we have like the aftermarket steering wheel.
We have like the short shifter.
We got you know the black door panels coming
and all that kind of stuff,
so we wanted the seats to tie in there as well.
Because these look a lot better than these do.
So, we wanted more of that race look,
more of that sport look,
but at the same time, we do drive
the car quite a bit,
so we do take it to shows.
We have to drive it to shows.
Shows are sometimes a couple hours away.
You know, we like showing the car off,
so we bring it places,
we take it out and we wanna be like comfortable
while we do that.
We don't wanna just sit in like a bucket for three
hours while driving to the nearest show,
because no one really wants to do that.
So, we go ahead and take a look
at the each one of these seats here.
We go ahead and compare our stock seats
to our new Corbeau seats.
The differences are pretty, like,
you know, obvious right away.
The main thing being the addition of the side bolsters,
which if you look on the E30 seats,
they're kind of there a little bit but they're not
nearly as aggressive or they don't nearly like
hug you as much as the RRS seats do.
So, if you take a look at the side bolters
and down by like where your legs are,
you can really see how more aggressive they are,
how far out or how much further out they stick.
And that's what's gonna keep you planted.
That's what's gonna keep you from
sliding around left to right.
So, moving on from the side bolsters,
another thing that you'll see or tend to see
with aftermarket seats is that they tend to sit a lot
lower than your OEM seats.
Now, with the base on these Corbeaus being around
two-and-a-half inches,
those do sit a helluva lot lower than our
stock E30 seat which is
a good thing for a couple of reasons,
the main one being that if
you're a taller guy such as myself,
a lot of the times we need
that lower, like, height so we can fit
a helmet on when we're in the car.
If we wear a car or a helmet,
if we're doing like autocross or something like that.
The seat sitting lower gives us
just a little more headroom so that we're not,
you know, bouncing our head off the roof every five
seconds when we're going around the corner.
For the most part too, if you're
worried about like weight in the car
or anything like that,
aftermarket seats are usually just
a tad bit lighter than your OEM counterpart.
A lot of the times if you're getting rid
of something like the heated seats
or the power seats or something like that
and you're just opting out for a bracket style,
you're gonna tend to lose a lot of
weight by ditching the OEM seats.
Now if we go ahead and take a closer look
in here, too, we see a couple other features
such as the holes down here and
the holes in the back by the shoulder.
Now, what these are intended for is if
you're running a harness setup.
You have a harness bar or if you
have a harness in the car,
these are gonna be the spaces that
you're gonna want to put those harnesses through.
Now, what is really nice about those
not all aftermarket seats are gonna have these,
but these ones just so happen to.
Is that, when you put these through here,
it's gonna kind of keep everything in like one place,
so you're not throwing the harness
over the shoulder of the seat,
and then having it fall off.
And then you have to like dig underneath
the seat and the center console
to kind of pull it out.
It kind of just keeps it all together.
It keeps it organized and
it's kind of a nice feature to have.
And probably one of the most important things
to keep in mind when taking out a set of
aftermarket seats, if you choose to do so,
is if you are planning are taking it
to the drag strip or if you are planning
on running it a lot on the track
to make sure that you get a seat
that is certified to do those things.
Because, believe it or not, not every aftermarket
seat out there is certified to do those things.
So, it's one thing you wanna double check
to make sure that they're certified
so you don't show up to the track one day
and then you have to sit on the sideline
and you have to go home because
your seats won't let you.
Now, of course, some autocross events and stuff like that
are a little more lenient on the rules
and will maybe let you run,
but just something, you know, keep in mind
if you really wanna make sure that
you're going there.
You're following the rules.
You're not gonna have to be sent home.
Just something to double check.
So not only do you manage to
get performance benefits out of these seats,
but they can really amp up your interior as well.
So, like I mentioned before, the interiors of cars
seem to be almost like an afterthought when
people go in to modifying their cars.
However, when people do take the time
to really put together their interior,
they get like the matching stitching,
they get the matching colors.
Everything looks like it belongs together.
It really ties in the whole theme of the car.
If we look at a car like Dakota's ST,
he actually has Corbeau RRS's in his car as well.
Now they are a little bit different
and that is because a lot of seat companies out there,
specifically Corbeau as well,
will offer a lot of customization with their seats.
You can get like different stitching.
You can get like different colored stitching.
You can choose from different materials.
You can choose like Alcantara, leather, vinyl,
fabric, whatever you want.
Whatever color if you want yellow, blue, green,
red, black, carbon which we have on this one.
The options are really, really endless.
If you want stitching, you can get stitching.
You can get something stitched in the headrest.
You can really get a lot of cool things
to make your car unique,
to make your interior stand out.
So we are super excited to have the chance to
put these seats in our E30.
Thanks again to Corbeau for sending them out,
for hooking us up with these.
We're really excited to put 'em in.
You can check out the E30 builds
if you haven't already.
We'll link it down in the description below.
It's a fun series.
We're gonna enjoy doing it.
We're gonna adding some more pieces to the car.
So, if you're looking for the
next big modification to your car,
if you're looking for something else
to add to your car to really
kind of tie everything together,
make it a little bit unique,
aftermarket seats are probably the
way that you're gonna wanna go.
Or I would highly recommend that you
take a look to see what you can get for your car.
But before I head outta here for the day,
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But I'm Joe with Fitment Industries.
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Peace.