Question about seats in a Stocker

herbjr · 05-11-2009, 06:25 PM

Ok here is what happened.

We ran our coronet wagon at 3 races with 2 different sets of seats. The car came with a low back seat with a head rest. We put a High back Duster/Dart seat in it with a high back. Below are the weights.

High Back 42 lbs each 84 lbs total
Low back 34 lbs each 68 lbs total

Bench 59 lbs total

We figured the high back was a little safer and since you have a head rest if you did crash well that was our thinking. You could order a Coronet with a Bench or Buckets with a factory center console with a floor shifter. But the bucket was a lower seat.

After a racer told the tech people at Rockingham I had the wrong seats in the car i got approached this weekend at Piedmont and was told to find the right seats. My dad can fabricate anything so a head rest is no problem, I'm running a seat that is heavier than anything else I could run. It would take a die hard mopar guy to know the difference in these seats. I dont care what we run, we have purchased 4 sets of Mopar buckets in the past 3 months anyway, but at 200.00 per seat to get covered this isnt cheap. So know what do you think about your fellow racer that is going to nick pick my stocker. He better bring his gaskets to Jackson and Darlington, Ill double the 500 I wasted having seats redone and see his piston and rod just for the HELL of it.

05-11-2009, 06:25 PM	#12
herbjr VIP Member Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Greensboro NC Posts: 1,027 Likes: 1 Liked 83 Times in 32 Posts	Re: Question about seats in a Stocker Ok here is what happened. We ran our coronet wagon at 3 races with 2 different sets of seats. The car came with a low back seat with a head rest. We put a High back Duster/Dart seat in it with a high back. Below are the weights. High Back 42 lbs each 84 lbs total Low back 34 lbs each 68 lbs total Bench 59 lbs total We figured the high back was a little safer and since you have a head rest if you did crash well that was our thinking. You could order a Coronet with a Bench or Buckets with a factory center console with a floor shifter. But the bucket was a lower seat. After a racer told the tech people at Rockingham I had the wrong seats in the car i got approached this weekend at Piedmont and was told to find the right seats. My dad can fabricate anything so a head rest is no problem, I'm running a seat that is heavier than anything else I could run. It would take a die hard mopar guy to know the difference in these seats. I dont care what we run, we have purchased 4 sets of Mopar buckets in the past 3 months anyway, but at 200.00 per seat to get covered this isnt cheap. So know what do you think about your fellow racer that is going to nick pick my stocker. He better bring his gaskets to Jackson and Darlington, Ill double the 500 I wasted having seats redone and see his piston and rod just for the HELL of it.