Thread: Seat from Wise Guys.....

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Hello Everyone, Anyone on the board ever use a seat from
Wise Guys??? Thanks a bunch & hope everyone's having a great week-end..... Bill

oh, '32 3 window......

No, but I have sat in them. They are pretty nice. Just as good as Glide IMO. I like the looks of Glide and Wise Guys. I do not like the look of TEA's. Just my opinion though. No real reason other than looks.

I am using the Wise Guys seats in a couple or roadsters that are in the shop right now, obviously haven't driven them yet, but they really seem to sit nice.

....Thanks guys, I'm going to go with a Wise Guy's seat. I played phone tag with them today cuz my phone wasn't on all day. But tomorrow I'll get through and order my seat. They must be a small operation cuz I just got an answering maching the three times that I called. Thanks again, Bill

Not meaning to hi-jack your thread Bill, but along the same lines has anyone used the seats that Summit sells??? ( Not the plastic racing seats) The ones I looked at are made by APC and called sport seats.....

Originally posted by Dave Severson
Not meaning to hi-jack your thread Bill, but along the same lines has anyone used the seats that Summit sells??? ( Not the plastic racing seats) The ones I looked at are made by APC and called sport seats.....

Dave, Don't for a minute think that your ever 'hi-jacking' any of my threads. If I ask a question on something I want ALL the info on it. In the case of seats from Summitt I already knew about them BUT if I didn't know about them, bought my Wiseguy seat and THEN saw the Summitt seat & liked them better? Id be BUMMED! Bill......

Hard to tell anything about a sear from a small ad picture, hopefully someone has a bit of info on the APC seats.

What is the price on the seats you're ordering Bill??? Curious how the two brands match up in price and quality.....

Dave, I'm going with a bench seat which is $623 for the frame & with foam. I'll have it appolstered later. Oh, and the seat slider is something like $70. They have a new thing out, a 3 pt. frame & seat belt, shoulder belt option but it's $620! {unless the web site price is a misprint!}. Lap belts sound good to me .... Oh, the RCI buckets are cheaper, although I don't remember the exact price of the Wise Guy buckets. Bill

I'm a little late in joining the discussion, but thought I'd throw out a couple thoughts. One is, if you plan to do any driving time I think it's best to spend some "butt" time in the seat. Each of us has back issues (anywhere from none to oh-my-God), and no two people will feel the seat the same. As an example though I agree with Rod on the Tea's seat appearance, some folks like it. That's a matter of taste. What really killed it for me though was I spent about a 1/2 hour sitting in one and my back didn't like that bolster configuration.

One suggestion on the foam thing which ties in with the above. First the advantage to the WG or Glide seats is your upholsterer can tailor the foam shape to work with you. Second, for similar reasons, most upholsterers don't like the factory supplied foam from Glide, mainly because they end up having to modifiy it so much to fit the owners final desires. They feel they could have gotten the job done quicker/better starting from scratch. Since WG seems to be cloning their business after Glide, it could be the same for them. If you know who you're going to have do your upholstery you might ask them first how they like to do that part of the job before assuming and spending money on foam that won't get the job done.

There are some excellent - and priced reasonably - seats in the wrecking yards.

I'll post some pics of a couple of them.

First up, a stripped and sectioned seat base from a mid 90's ChryCo Van installed in an A coupe.
Sectioning is easy with these because the springs run longitudinally.

This particular coupe belongs to a HAMB'r and it's turning out quite nice.

Here's the same seat after sectioning the foam and gluing it back together.

The seat is reported to be quite comfortable.

Note that the above seat is the three passenger back seat found in the ChryCo vans.

The seat in the next pic is the two passenger seat from the same van.

There is some confusion sometimes due to van owners in many cases would remove the two passenger seat, store it away and move the three passenger seat to the middle making a six passenger van with lots of luggage space.

The two passenger seat - and the three pass for that matter - are easily removed without tools.

You'll have to build a new seat base because the seat will be too high for use in a coupe or roadster.
1" square tubing works well and it doesn't take long.

I made my seat base so that four bolts can be removed to pull the seat from the base as well as there is about 8" adjustment available to move the seat fore and aft.*

You'll have to adapt an aftermarket seat to your car anyway so doing the seat base bit is no big deal.

The seat shown is in a 31 A roadster on 32 rails.
Note that the armrests fit and fold.

The seat is a good size for roadsters and coupes and the one in my car is extremely comfortable.
Note as well that it has a little more leanback than does the seat in the coupe pictured above.

Fwiw - the 32's and the 30-31 A's have pretty much the same size cockpits with the major difference being the A cockpits are 2" shallower than is the Deuce cockpit.

*I also run a Deuce roadster and my 5'2" wife as well as my 6' tall self use the same seat.
Only difference is, when she drives she uses a 4" thick square foam pillow made by the shop that did the upholstery.
The pillow matches the upholstery fwiw and is stored in the trunk.

The seat belts in the pic are the stock ChryCo seat belts and fasten to the seat framework.
In the original van install the outer seat belts fastened to the seat base.

In my case, the seat belts in the roadster will be fastened to a frame crossmember similar to what NHRA requires.

You'll note in this pic that if the seat was in a coupe it would be all the way back.
This location works for me and there's still 3" or so it could go back.

A coupe would have the seat further back because it has a little more cockpit room to the rear - true in the A's anyway.

The upholstery on this seat is usable as is and I doubt if the upholsterer will have to do anything other than knock out a cover for it.


Price wasn't bad . . . $40. at a local junkyard.

Removed in less than a minute....

A friend of mine just installed the new "bomber" seats in his '32 roadster and they look great. I didn't get a chance for seat time, but you can put as much or as little padding as you need. They also are small enough to add a little space inside of the cockpit.
Jim

http://www.speedwaymotors.com/xq/asp...splayGroup.htm

Thanks a BUNCH for all the seat info! ... I went ahead and ordered the Wise Guys seat. Someone else is building this part of my car and I didn't want to spend the time cutting down a seat nor pay him the labor for doing it. But for my '29 roadster project, that I'm trying to get going at my house, I'll do a junk yard cut down one. Thanks again, Bill