Porsche 981 Seat Swap???

[moose09876]

I know I'm crazy, but if my 135 had ventilated seats, it'd be my forever car. Anybody have any practical knowledge about swapping in a seat from a Porsche? I can do any wiring / bracket changes / modifications but custom coding is beyond what I have time to learn. Ideas?

[ShocknAwe]

Originally Posted by moose09876

I know I'm crazy, but if my 135 had ventilated seats, it'd be my forever car. Anybody have any practical knowledge about swapping in a seat from a Porsche? I can do any wiring / bracket changes / modifications but custom coding is beyond what I have time to learn. Ideas?

I looked into this as I love Porsche seats. Wasn't worth the squeeze for me and went with custom recaros instead.

Custom bracket to floor mounts of your choice then need to power it and buttons to control your seat functions like heat/blower etc. you'd have to get an emulator for the seat occupancy sensor.

After all that it would be quite heavy.

[moose09876]

I'm not really concerned about the extra weight, I have this car for the experience, not the lap time. Ventilated seats would vastly improve it for me.

Finding a way to wire up the heat / vent on the seat shouldn't be difficult, but anybody have info on spoofing the CAN signal so it stays powered on? Some things I've found say for BMW seat modules it's 1khz. Still hesitant to drop $2k+ on these if they for sure won't work.

[ShocknAwe]

Originally Posted by moose09876

I'm not really concerned about the extra weight, I have this car for the experience, not the lap time. Ventilated seats would vastly improve it for me.

Finding a way to wire up the heat / vent on the seat shouldn't be difficult, but anybody have info on spoofing the CAN signal so it stays powered on? Some things I've found say for BMW seat modules it's 1khz. Still hesitant to drop $2k+ on these if they for sure won't work.

It can be done. Wire the switches up as an independent toggle on the side of the seat. Should just need power. Run full blast or off?

You can get a seat occupancy sensor emulator NBD.

I would recommend looking into Porsche sport seats. Comfort seats still rival BMWs sport seats but the P-car folding sport seats are on another level. Not sure how available vented sport seats are though.