Car appreciation... the aesthetics, the engineering, etc

Nice but no V12 or V16

They are at least better than the GT3 those are hideous. Cant be those.

I did that mistake with the merc, took me a while to figure out the ticking noise it made when one of the bolts hit the handbrake adjustment wheel.

That image doesn't work for me on LFGSS, but does pasted into a browser - can anyone else see it?

No can't see it

Trying again, this is (I believe) a Recaro Pole Position that has been "993'd"

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Here are a pair of the GT3 seats in a Boxster:

Hmm, I'm having zero joy linking to images recently - has there been a change that I'm (clearly!) unaware of?

Trying again.

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No idea but the picture association game thread has suffered lately as well so maybe. @Velocio ?

https://www.lfgss.com/conversations/283602/#14166166

Images from non-http domains are broken right now, but page load times are faster and privacy is better.

It's an experiment I'm running, I'm trying to assess whether the privacy and speed benefits are worth it, and later today whether I can fix the http image breakage.

This is an https link though?

https://cdn4.pelicanparts.com/techarticles/Boxster_Tech/73-BODY-Seats/images_large/Pic1.jpg

Neither seat looks great.

Have you looked at the rails on the bottom, I'd think you might be able to get some lowering of the seat by modifying them. That combined with limited lowering by re-covering might be enough?

I had Recaro pole positions in my car previously, you might want to try some out before stumping up for them as they are very slim fitting.

I once drove that car from Lancashire to Brands Hatch though, i always found them pretty good in comfort terms

I had Recaro pole positions in my car previously, you might want to try some out before stumping up for them as they are very slim fitting and you are probably extremely fat

I once drove that car from Lancashire to Brands Hatch though, i always found them pretty good in comfort terms

You may have a point, I'm currently ~84kg at 187cm.

Originals are not cheap: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/RARE-GENUINE-PORSCHE-1994-964-SPEEDSTER-RACING-SEATS-OEM-BY-RECARO-RS-RSR-RUF/112853141684?epid=2221203928&hash=item1a469248b4:g:n9wAAOSwKM9Zq08P

Porsche standard seats aren't exactly huge and amply padded though. Is there realistically going to be any meaningful improvement?

The seats I have contain the motors in the base, the buckets don't have any of that so the base of the seat goes where the motors etc are. How significant is the drop? That I don't know.

Well, you're unlikely to get taller? Fatter though...

Just keep the roof open.

Doesn't change the relation of dials to eyes, sadly.

You only need to see the digital speed readout and the computer bit.

I'd like to be able to see the temp gauge as well, call me fussy.

Fussy.