Which ones? The fixed back ones (DTM) should fit fine. They are narrower than my V-Racing Rush (Cobra Monaco).
No clue on the others...
No clue on the others...
Tenzo R racing buckets
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From the website. Emphasis by me.
Do whacha-like, it's your money.
I've personally never seen a documented problem with them, but that would be saying that I've never seen a set randomly disintegrate. I've never knowingly seen the seats go through anything bad either.
My personal opinion is that they're unproven, that's the only thing I have against 'em. Tenzo's not exclusively a eBay brand, but they've always been kinda at that pep-boys/ebay level in my mind.
I say give 'em a try. My safety is worth more to me, but as long as it's not my ass in the seat. ...
I don't have to sit in it to know that its crap. In fact, just sitting in it won't tell me anything cause we're not talking about comfort, we're talking about safety. I've personally seen a collapsed "race look" ebay-seat at a local speed shop and it's "carbon-fiber" shell snapped in half like a Chinese take-out chopstick. Hey, shoes from Payless are pretty cheap and look like the real deal, but they fall apart, I'll pay extra for some Bostonians, thank you. Bottom line, we have no clue to what standards those shells are made by because the only standard they go by is "cheap, highest profit-margin". Sorry, I don't trust products from a company that also sells faux-carbon fiber cell-phone holders. Companies pay a lot of money to have seats certified by an independant source, ever price an OEM seat before? On OEM seats, the recliner mechanism is built to a standard thats says "mechanism must be able to withstand yada,yada,ya forces". Real bucket seats (and recliners) are certified by the FIA. What are the cheap ebay-seats held to? Who does the testing on them? And guess what, when they fail to meet FIA standards, they are no longer certified. Remember the debacle a few years ago when Recaro got one their seats pulled? http://www.cams.com.au/content.asp?PageID=Article&ObjectID=141
Name brand "JDM" seats like Bride or Buddy Club gets a free-pass on me (for now) because at least they are being used in competition and are in the process of getting certified, are there any ebay-seats currently being used in any professional competitions?
Using the comparison of "we all dont have millions of dollars in the banks...THATS WHY WE HAVE MIATAS" makes no sense to me and is totally irrelevant to the topic. It would be a dis-service if we didn't put forth the perspective of safety. If the safety factor means less to you then price, then hey, it's a free country. Let me help you out with another cheap seat maker that also makes faux-carbon fiber wiper blades:
http://www.slickcar.com/productdetails.asp?ProductID=2918 Happy shopping!
And for the record, if I had a million dollars in the bank, I'd still keep my miata and buy another one
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