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Old 10-13-2013, 11:46 PM
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Looking to move up from my stock C6 seats + Angelwings. Any obvious places in Norcal to go try some out?
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Looking to move up from my stock C6 seats + Angelwings. Any obvious places in Norcal to go try some out?
Wine Country Motorsports at Sonoma Raceway has a pretty good selection to look at
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HPDE track days are sometimes useful; when you see a car equipped with a seat you are considering, you can ask the owner if you can sit and try it out. I find that much more useful than trying it in a store since you get to see/feel in the actual environment. BTW, that's how I decided on my current Kirkey seat.
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I have a Sparco seat that I don't use anymore. It's expired for racing, but fine for hpde. Come and get it if you want it. It's a comfortable seat and I just kept it in the car even for street driving. You would have to find a bottom mount seat bracket. It's fairly large and easily fit me at 5'11" and 175. Otherwise, I would go to Wine Country at Sonoma. They tend to have sales in November.
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Great thanks for the suggestions! I'll be up at Sonoma w/ Trackmasters next month, so I'll drop by Wine Country Motorsports.

Bill thanks for the offer. What model Sparco is it? I'm 5'7" and 160. My guess was that I would have to go with one of their smaller offerings.
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Originally Posted by DarkMastyr
Great thanks for the suggestions! I'll be up at Sonoma w/ Trackmasters next month, so I'll drop by Wine Country Motorsports.

Bill thanks for the offer. What model Sparco is it? I'm 5'7" and 160. My guess was that I would have to go with one of their smaller offerings.
Wine Country will have the most selection in one place. I was too tall in the body and too big for any they had. So I went with a RaceTech and never went back....love them!

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