Worth removing?

[clg82]

I was just wondering if anyone would suggest removing the rear seats. No one ever sits in them and just wanted to know if it would be worth the time to remove them?

[1TA LS1]

I was planning on doing the same thing. When I first bought my car, I removed the rear and passenger seats to shampoo the carpet. (I know, I am crazy). They are very easy to remove. Took me about a 30 minutes to remove the rear seats with simple hand tools.
But anyway, I took it out for a drive and felt the car was way quicker and I think you would get better mpgs..... Now I am defiantly doing it...haha

[clg82]

I was planning on doing the same thing. When I first bought my car, I removed the rear and passenger seats to shampoo the carpet. (I know, I am crazy). They are very easy to remove. Took me about a 30 minutes to remove the rear seats with simple hand tools.
But anyway, I took it out for a drive and felt the car was way quicker and I think you would get better mpgs..... Now I am defiantly doing it...haha

did you remove just the seat buckets or the actual back rest also?

[1TA LS1]

back rest and all

[secondgearscratch]

35 pounds in five minutes...yeah id say its worth it.

[clg82]

back rest and all

Was the backrest hard to remove cause i know the seat buckets are easy. and do you still have them removed? and does it look tacky? where you from in so-cal?

[SStriker]

I had mine removed along with the belt assemblies. made delete boxs that weighted less the ten pounds together. Put seats back in though beucase i didnt have matching carpet on them and they looked like crap. One day i will convert to black carpet and put black carpet to match on deleted then all will be well.

[secondgearscratch]

me too, i have the whole back half of the car stripped to bare metal. looks bad and gets hot, but anything for weight reduction.

[1TA LS1]

Was the backrest hard to remove cause i know the seat buckets are easy. and do you still have them removed? and does it look tacky? where you from in so-cal?

Looks pretty clean if you remove the seat belts too. I am not sure about removing the seat belts, but the backrest was pretty easy. Just two bolts on either side of the hinges. I'm in North Irvine.

[secondgearscratch]

seatbelts are just two bolts, very painless.

[ATCharming]

i wanna see pics of this

[secondgearscratch]

i wanna see pics of this

of what? its just the bare floor. nothing too special alex....

really its kind of aesthetically displeasing.

[ATCharming]

of what? its just the bare floor. nothing too special alex....

really its kind of aesthetically displeasing.

i want to see HOW displeasing it is lol. ive never seen a car with missing rear seats before, i just wanna see what it looks like with a big empty space behind the front seats

[clg82]

i want to see HOW displeasing it is lol. ive never seen a car with missing rear seats before, i just wanna see what it looks like with a big empty space behind the front seats

BIG EMPTY SPACE?!?!? there is only like three inches between the back of the front seat and the back anyways!!!

[ATCharming]

BIG EMPTY SPACE?!?!? there is only like three inches between the back of the front seat and the back anyways!!!

lol. someone just post a pic already!

[Madcity T/A]

best I got of missing rear. really cleans it up. the seat belts are easy to take out you just pull back the plastic covering and start unscrewing.

[Heartbreak1]

best I got of missing rear. really cleans it up. the seat belts are easy to take out you just pull back the plastic covering and start unscrewing.

How difficult was the aftermarket seat install? Looks really good. Is that how the rear should look with the seats removed or did you add carpet and boxes?

[Madcity T/A]

no boxes but it has carpet and I had someone else do the seats.

[ATCharming]

its sooo wierd lol.

[JwMonE99]

That looks real nice tho the racing sears was a good touch.