My bank account typically won the argument whether I should purchase Mr Mike's seats for my 88 Formula. Well, fiscal responsibility be damned!
Here are the old seats. This picture actually makes them look much nicer than they are. The previous owner was a big fan of the cigarette burn. I am not.
Nice formula man, auto or manual? I can understand why you would want to switch the seat's, especially if you've got black holes burnt through the cloth .
I love the way Mr.Mike's seats look but im just not a fan of leather. It get's boiling hot in the summer and then absolutely freezing in the winter here in Colorado. I have a 91 Cadillac FWD with nothing but leather on the interior and it hasn't been taken care of, so naturally it looks like the leather is very dry. I have the same center console from TLG that you have, and once a month I take some leather care and clean it up and then shine it up to keep it from drying out.
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Very nice. I want leather seats, too, but have many things other than my bank account to consider: 1. My current cloth seats are in perfect condition 2. My headliner is just starting to sag 3. My center console isn't ready yet 4. My rear panel isn't ready yet 5. I have other things to do first, like new tires, low-profile headlights, removing the old alarm, rebuilding headlight motors, etc. 6. When I do replace the seat covers, I will replace the carpet, headliner, the rusty pieces behind and under the center console, and the rear panel as well.
Manual. Nothing too extreme done to it other than the 3.4PR swap.
My main focus was making it reliable enough to be a daily driver. Lots of junk yard trips, parts from Rodney Dickman, etc. I'd drive it anywhere now.
Mr. Mike's makes cloth seats now. Might be something you'd be interested in...
Very nice! I want to do a 3.4PR swap but I heard it's not worth the money if my 2.8 is in perfect working order. Does the 3.4 get the same gas mileage as the 2.8? Is it possible to get around 200HP out of the engine?
It's funny, right after I wrote my last post I checked on the website and saw the new cloth seats. Mr.Mike's is able to read my mind
Not originally, but I'm adding them now. The Clearwater units that are discussed elsewhere in this forum. They no longer make the Fiero specific variation, but I didn't have the wiring anyway. The Clearwater speakers come with a harness from a Miata that I will be adapting.
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Originally posted by Csjag:
They look great, were they very hard to install?
I wouldn't call it hard...I would call it time consuming. I've never done this sort of work and I'm very detailed oriented once I start tearing something apart. The first seat took about 6 hours with some repairs. The second was less than half of that. Based on what I've read, others are substantially faster than me.
Very nice! I want to do a 3.4PR swap but I heard it's not worth the money if my 2.8 is in perfect working order. Does the 3.4 get the same gas mileage as the 2.8? Is it possible to get around 200HP out of the engine?
It's funny, right after I wrote my last post I checked on the website and saw the new cloth seats. Mr.Mike's is able to read my mind
The 3.4 in my 88 GT gets good mpg, but I have a 4 speed auto. Good mpg is dependent on your right foot. When I had mine on the dyno (the engine was a new crate engine) it only pulled 120 HP at the wheels, but was running 142 mpg in 3rd gear at 5000 rpm. The "fastest" I ever had the car up to was 120+ 3rd gear at 4200rpm and then figured touring tires, old guy driving and stock brakes, it probably wasn't the smartest thing to do.
I have a set of Mr. Mikes leather in my 88 GT and Mr. Mikes cloth in my 87 GT. I installed the leather, but had Mr. Mike do the cloth ones.
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