Installing C6 seats into my C5 Corvette! (The RIGHT Way)

I'm just a guy in Kansas playing around in his garage. Come along in my adventures riding, racing, modifying and repairing my small fleet of unusual misfits.

[CarWizard]

Came for the C5 footage, stayed for the satisfying Yeeting. Lots on unneeded parts and harnesses being tastefully yeeted. ASMR.

[nei]

If you remove the seat bottom and remove the cover and expose the foam, use a hot steamer for clothes and pump it into the foam. Itll bring back the foam bolster. I did it on my acura seat a few years ago and its still holding up.

[michaeltutty]

That is a great upgrade. The new seats look like they belong in there. Oddly, they look more like they belong than the original C5 seats. I need to do something similar to the old Volvo. 400, 000 miles have taken a toll. Thanks for the inspiration.

[organiccold]

Great job and amazing mod Jake..and as always nice wiring and explanation.
Still can't understand how this channel doesn't habe at least 250k subs already

[RazoE]

Toyota did something similar. The MKII Supra had manually pumped bolsters. The MKIII had power bolsters with 20 way adjustable seats. The MKIV just had seats. Yeah...

[JerryCecco]

FYI I had a 2012 Cent Z06 which I tracked alot. My C6Z drivers seat felt loose and I thought the plastic interior frame was broken...I too it apart, the plastic frame was fine. I had an upholstery shop replace some of the old form (sides) AND I had them add in a metal reinforcement to plastic frame. WOW what a difference, ZERO give. best seat ever after that.

[jonstapleton]

I asked why the C5 seats were so bad when I first went to the Corvette factory, and the engineer told me that the C4 seats were too narrow for a lot of people, so they design the seats so bigger wider people could buy it. Sales went up, but so did complaints. I asked why not offer a GT seat option. They said "we never thought about it." The C6 did offer something like that, though, lol.
The C6 shifter is a much better and cheaper upgrade to the C5. So is the linkage, but hard to install.

[ZazuYou]

Excellent upgrade with those C6 seats!! Nice DIY project, for sure. Cheers!! 🤓

[bozodog]

Real nice job. When I replace the seat foam on my New Edge, I also used zip ties instead of the hog rings. Shout out to Tyler Potter on that.

[grahamfrost]

Yup, I will have to upgrade mine at some point but they're not too bad at the moment. 👍🇬🇧

[lirr]

Great job on the seats. Love the 98 Corvette. Looking forward to your next video.

[diedus]

As a person with a jacked up back, comfortable seats is a high one on my list, because a bad seat can make your drive a very painfull one. I like how you try to do thing's right, because it's pretty annoying to get a used car where someone does a hack job, leaves out nuts and bolts, wire thing's up that could burn the car down, or replace the plastic retainer clips with a million zip ties. I like you, your fiend tyler, john ross, the ninja, and m 539 restorations because you do thing's right, and don't just use the cheapest crap to do repairs. That guy sreten from m 539 restorations may go a bit far with his ocd, but his stuff looks new, wish i had pockets that deep. Those seats look like they were meant to go in that car, nice job. G-d bless y'all.

[WildDigger]

I am surprised that you seeming to be a big BMW guy didn't go with a Z4 or I love both Corvettes and Z4s. 😊

[kevincraven]

Changed the seats from manual, beige cloth on my 2000 Mk1 Rover 75, to heated, electrically adjusted black leather with grey piping from a Mk2, much more support, better looking and easier to live with!😊

[benjaminkamben]

As usual solid quality video Jake. To echo the thoughts of people down below me I don't know how you don't have more subscribers. You just solved a problem that I guarantee hundreds of people have dealt with. For your next video on this car I think that you should focus on one fixing anything that is blatantly wrong and two focus on updating creature comforts and mechanical things that make the car easier to live with on a daily basis. I know that hundreds of youtubers have done this already but I've never seen one for the C5 Corvette and I really want to get your unique take on it. Anyone reading this comment if you agree with me please give me a thumbs up. Not only will it help push the comment to the top but it'll also make my day.

[billpar]

I had a brand new C5 2000 with the custom buckets and they were everything you wanted, without going to C6, I loved my seats, loved my car Had it to 2012 never an issue

[pugs]

I remember watching an old episode of wheeler dealers. They have a rebuild kits for the seat rails for the c5. I like your solution tho.

[darrelhandgraaf]

There were two different seats offered in the C5. Your car with few options has the basic seat. You could also get a C5 with the optional Sport Seat.

[bryan]

You can add seat heaters to that super easy.

[vice]

Jack, A great upgrade for C5. What I like about C5 is because of those pop up headlights. But I'm not too crazy about the bumper. I wonder if you would try to move C6 nose bumper on C5? I'll bet it would look great. I'm always for bumpers with opening in the middle, not at ends.