seat upgrade needed-options?

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Hi all, like most of you, I love my liftback, hate the seats. Thigh support sucks, seat bottom tilt is too flat (knees too low), and the general feel of the seat is a somewhat softened park bench. I'm only 5'8", so I'd like to stay somewhere near the oem height off the floor.

I want to replace the driver's seat (maybe passenger) with a nice sport feeling reclining seat, not a FIA race seat.

I've read the following:

1. installation of vw rabbit seat with minimal hole elongation necessary. any more info on this? are there non-electric ones?

2. tilting stock seat with washers - didn't work for me, any more than one washer and there is no way to start the bolts. I sat in it with 3/4" rise on the front mounts, and the thigh support is still too short. the angle was a little nicer

3. race seat, or "race" seat installation. In a single post, I've heard people say "weapon r was way too short" "weapon r was too tall". I'm sure this is a combination of bracket, seat, and bottom mount vs side mount. It looks like brackets can be had from planted, weapon r, corbeau, and wedge (sparco).

If you guys have experience with a good supportive mechanical recline seat (or seat/bracket combo) that I can set up similar to oem seat height, I would really appreciate it.

I don't necessarily mind a reclining racer style seat, but just a good sporty seat would be fine. For example, the seats in a bottom of the line 2006 honda civic are great!

cheers