wow... *drool*

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How much does a seat like that cost. That thing is beautiful

That is the Gias Sport which retails for $1450 a piece, but I can get you some for $1305 a piece.

1450 dollars to drop ~20 lbs (per seat)?

47lbs doesn't sound that heavy for a stock seat considering the motors and air bag. I think my seats will stay in for a while.

Yeah but that seat would look sexy in a red or a black Z. admit it!!!!LOL

WOW. For that $$$, you'd expect a seat to lick your balls and shaft...

Yea seriously.

Think about all the other things you could buy with $3,000 (assuming you buy both seats)

a new audio system, new intake/exhaust system, new tires n rims....

cmon IMO that **** just ain't worth it. i think they look ugly too. for 1500 i'd expect some gucci leather or some ****. But a riced-out looking ugly excuse for a seat? I'll pass!

haha, riced out? umm..right. Those seats are used in different motorsports like time attack, drifting and circuits. There's nothing rice about them they serve a purpose. They save weight because the structure is made of carbon/kevlar some of the lightest material on earth. They're all about performance not just looks. Definitely not riced-out, I think the term rice is used to loosely these days.

bride is far from riced out.. but to each is his own..

oh man...if bride GIAS are rice, then EVERYTHING is rice. I don't think you understand the term rice...

Also...seats are very important for someone who takes driving seriously....

riced out ugly excuse for a seat? I lolled.. these are some of the best reclinable seats money can buy.

Bride IS a great brand. I bought some seats for my old race car around $1100 for the PAIR. Still. I'd expect more from a seat if they cost that much EACH. LoL

Oh and by no means are they "rice."

Those Bride seats look pretty cool. I am coming over to the Z world from having bimmers and agree with the earlier posters that a lot more performance can be had on other mods than seats. If you are after something unique for people entering your car to see, than those would be a great statement. For performance I would do a lot of other things first. Doing things under the hood and body and doing the seats would be killer. :tup:

Man, those seats do look good.

Surely you guys know that BRIDE makes a wide range of seats at a wide range of prices. Their Low Max reclineable series (like the one pictured) are among the more expensive of the BRIDE fleet.

Like i said earlier and i'll say it again that is one sexy seat and i will...mark my word own them...SOME DAY..I'll be eating pop tarts and ramen but i'll get 'em. LOL

I think they are extremely sexy. Never sat in a Bride before, do they have good lumbar support? Any adjustable mechanisms for lumbar?

Doesn't look like it from the pics.

not that I remember, I've sat in those before, they were waaay too tight on my legs for daily driving. I couldn't really separate my legs. Thats my biggest gripe.

I think the Bride looks awesome. But I'm not giving up the side airbags, so my stock leather seats will stay. Seems to me most of you don't care about the side airbags. To each his own I guess. (I'm a little paranoid after what happened to my 350.) But I wonder if there are insurance implications if you get into a wreck, get injured, and your injuries would have been mitigated/prevented by the side airbag. I could see the insurance company pulling some d!ck move about how you changed the crashworthiness of the vehicle, blah blah blah.

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These are the ones for me.

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With this shift boot.

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And this E-brake lever boot.

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And this shift knob.

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And finally this E-brake handle. All in the Base Sport Red 370z.

Has anyone actually installed seats yet? I autocrossed my car a few weekends ago and I had to hunch over, because with a helmet on my head hits the roof. All I would need is an extra 2-3 inchs of clearance. I am assuming that because aftermarket seats wont have all the motors and crap under them that the stockers do they will sit lower to the floor. Can anyone confirm this? I would probably opt for a cheaper seat and just swap it in before events rather than have an expensive one that would remove the airbag and be a little too restrictive.

There's not much under the base seats but they are mounted at the same height as the touring seats that do have motors. Racing seats will definitely sit a little lower and potentially a lot lower depending on whether you use a rail kit or just bolt them directly to the floor. They're not that easy to swap out quickly unless you fab up some custom mounting solution.

I'm sure there is a way to get the swap down to four bolts. Four bolts isn't that bad even if they are a biotch to get at.

I really want those low max seats, but i just can't find the right rails for the 370z..Does anyone know where they are??

Talk to Mike at DDM or the guys at 370ztune.com

The target demographic for Bride is not rationing their money and trying to decide between seats or "a new audio system, new intake/exhaust system, new tires n rims...." It's a high-end product, and its priced accordingly. Want cheaper seats? Try eBay.

That said...I personally would not go with fixed racing-seats for a street-car/daily-driver unless it was the lower bolster style, ala Sparco Roadster. Dropping yourself in or propping yourself up and out of a fixed seat day in and day out will get old pretty quick, not to mention a limited range of motion once you are in. I have a Recaro SPG in a car that sees mainly track-duty, and I would not want to get in/out of that for a 2-minute run to the grocery-store to pick up milk.

Ideally for me, it would either be a pair of leather/Alcantara Bride Gias or Recaro Sportster CSs (OEM RS4 seats in Europe). You get the best of both worlds...all the comfort you need for the street, and sufficient support for the track...

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Or OEM Ferrari seats. Now if I can only buy the shells... :)

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I wonder if evo X seats fit...

I have what I think is the only set of Z34 BRIDE rails in the US, unless BRIDE USA just got some more in from Japan. :)

so...is anyone getting rid of their Touring leather seats? I'm interested in picking them up just for lumbar support purpose...anyone know how hard it would be to run power to the Touring seats if you put them into the Base?

Bride's seat are very good choice but expensive! the downside is the safety factor that the Original seats have are bolster airbags for side impact protection. Bride's have none.

They are considered "rice" if you put them in a daily driver, or even a "weekend warrior" car - and I'm referring to the ones posted as aftermarket installations. The OEM ones posted above look good as they match the look of the car and aren't "overdone". Overdone = rice, IMO.



At least, that's my view.

I don't like your view at all.
Fail. :tup:
btw. how the **** can you call bride seats rice? :gtfo2:

If you're tracking the car on a semi-professional level (as in, you get paid to, not the other way around) then sure.

If you're not, epic fail w/ triple-facepalm.

Hate to break it to you but aftermarket seats are not just designed for racing in mind. I will pick them up for support and better fitment of myself. I am 6'4" and fit nicely in the Z but with a nice bride/recarao seat I would fit better and enjoy my ride just that much more. Do I plan to track my car? Not currently, it is my daily driver, but is it rice, no.

Rice is the attempt at doing something but either buying a cheaper alternative which has no purpose or buying something that hurts the car (i.e. body panels you add but do not paint or do not exactly fit your car).

The only "epic fail w/ triple-facepalm" is the use of the word rice itself. It's purely subjective with no clear definition, and it's gotten to a point where the [over]use of it is just laughably immature. What's even more laughable is arguing over what's rice and what's not...

I will agree, though...there are some tastelessly done Bride setups around. There is a local kid with a modified, beige-colored, mid-1990s, automatic Honda Accord with tan leather interior and one red fixed-back Bride. It looks absolutely ridiculous. However, it would be no different if it was a top-of-the-line Recaro.

I guess I can't see any advantage to replacing the stock seats with "racing seats", when you don't race.

It'd be like wearing a tuxedo to McDonalds...to work.

This past week, I took a long trip in the 370Z and decided afterwards that the touring seats are fairly good, at least for my back. So the only reasons I can see for aftermarket seats are if you are seriously tracking the car.

I have an extra set of Recaro Trend seats sitting around. My wife bought a Mercedes SLK320 and it *killed* my back whenever we drove it any distance. So in 2002, I swapped out the stock seats and replaced them with the Recaros. It turned out to be fairly complex b/c Mercedes has various seat sensors (baby-smart seat, SRS deployment, occupancy by light people weight sensors) that need to be in place for their airbags to work. Getting the right Recaro rail kit was a challenge too. Overall it took over $3,000 for the parts and installation, and a lot of head-scratching to get the SRS computer to accept the substitutes.

Fortunately, the Recaros were a HUGE improvement over the stock Mercedes seats, especially for lateral support and lumbar support -- and the Trend seats are not very aggressive compared to other Recaros. But they did a much better job of connecting me to the car, and that showed up in my autocross times as well.

Now that we're selling the SLK, the stock seats are back in (with near-zero wear ;) ), and I've briefly considered putting the Recaros into the Z. But now I'll save them for some future draft pick to be named.

This does raise the issue of installation for anyone who is considering putting aftermarket seats in the Z. It won't matter if you are doing full race prepare like DDM, but for everyone else, there are important issues to consider. I wonder, for instance, what steps one will need to take to use any of the aftermarket seats in a daily driver to retain supplemental restraint functionality. Thinking about having an accident and getting sued by a passenger, or for resale purposes, having things like functioning airbags may be an absolute requirement to limit your legal liability!

Putting Bride seats in your Z could be great fun! Imagine taking your sweet young thing out to a restaurant. You should definitely be a gentleman and hold the door for her, especially if she is wearing a mini-skirt!! ;)

But seriously, if you are married and you add seats with high side bolsters, you are putting up a huge barrier to the acceptability of your car to the women in your life!

On the flipside, you could have had your OEM seats redone for less than $3K ;)

That same argument can be applied to nearly any modification to the car. It's moot.

Yeah...Good seats are good seats. Period. I've done painless 800 mile days in these and I'm no youngster.

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