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Originally Posted by Oliveiraej
I will be doing the same thing with my seats however I couldn't find seats with the lumbar and heat already in them, so I got a 2006 Z06 drivers seat and will use that on the passenger side and add the lumbar and heat elements like the other gentleman did, to both seats. (Where did you find the C6 seat with the lumbar and heat element in it, (how much)?) It is a little more work but it should be just as good. I will also be taking the seats, (my driver seat and the new driver seat to a upholsterer to add some height to the bottom and side bolsters, cut the holes for the harness in the back and the seat bottom and then re-skin the seats with black leather and red sticking like you did.
Allot of work but it's the only solution if you’re not a skinny guy. If I had a 34-36 waist, the Caravaggio’s would have been on the car already. But I have a 39-40 inch waist so that killed the Caravaggio’s. And all the other seats require a non-power mounting system.
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I got my pair of C6 seats for just less than $1,000 and I've seen a couple pair advertised recently on another forum for about $1,000. I think I can recoup some of that by selling the left over parts. I've seen the seat covers being sold for about $350. I haven't put the C6 covers on the Z06 seats, but I could do that and offer the entire seats for sale.
I did the work myself, but if I had wanted some more foam added to the cushions I would have taken it to an upholtery shop like you mention. I used the C6 seat cover as a template and sketched out the area I needed to cut out on my Z06 seat cover for the switches, then just used a pair of scissors to cut it out.
Good luck upgrading your seats - it sure is nice having the full power and lumbar and bolster adjustability on both sides.
Bob
