914 Seats not the Best, Neoprene Seat will soon be installed Options

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I have never been a fan of the comfort afforded me when I drive my car. I have found that Rabbit or Jetta seats to offer better latteral support and just being made of fabric you don't tend to slide around.
So the winter project started with an old 914 seat I had lying around.
First I built up the side bolsters 2" in the middle, 1" 1/2 way up and forward tapering to 1/4" at each end. Picture # 1

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Here's the fun part.
I only did the one seat cause I only had one spare seat to experiment with.
When you change the shape of the seat, (side bolsters) the ratio of the fabric changes too, and it isn't as easy as you might think to custom design it from scratch.
Trying this with a home sewing machine is hard but not impossible.
Trying to get the tight corners of the seat bottom was impossible for me, so I ended up cheating a bit.
It took 5 times as many hours to do it than I thought it would.
For every 4 seams I sewed, I unsewed 1.
Trying to do a reinforced seam (the one that tears at the side bolster) is very hard to do but not impossible. It is however impossible to make it look like a factory seam that they use a special sewing machine to do it with. Mine looks like it but the seams are not perfectly parallel.

Last, I don't know if I would do another one. It wasn't easy and the $95 I gave an upolstery guy to redo my original side bolsters now seams like a steal. No pun intended.
The whole thing cost me about $65CAN.
It feels pretty good to sit in but my car is still in winter storage untill next week so until then I just get to look at it.