Moulding Seat Foam-

Some of you may have heard I used to upholster 20+ years ago alot has changed since then there are alot more products available these days for custom work.


It's called Aqua cell foam it comes in a couple different colors (not important)
it comes in 1" thick by 24"wide by 60-80 inches long it is a closed cell foam that can be sanded
and formed with a knife, cheese grater, sand paper and other bodyshop supplies

I have been doing a little upholstery work lately and am amazed at all the products we didn't have when I was doing this stuff the hard way.

I am teaching the guy who owns the bodyshop some of the tricks of the trade so to speak as I am just getting their upholstery department up and running. the new patterned vinyls and foams available are really cool

the foam is 120.00 bucks a sheet but will do 3 seats (so the rep says)

I will be designing me a new seat this summer I am sure!

just wanted to give you guys forming seats a heads up

Thanks for the info! Where is the foam available?

Is it available in different thicnesses, or do you attach it to your old foam to get the desired thickness?


It looks like the bike in your avatar will be a lot more comfortable after you get your seat built!!

I got it from miami rubber products (Upholstery distributer) in Ohio not sure if they sell to the public but I am sure your local upholstery shop can order it (if they are a small shop they will be happy to order an expensive item helps with their shipping expense) you can look it up online goggle miami rubber auto trim products.

use a good glue (i use DAP landau top adhesive) 3M makes an adequate areosol available at walmart.
best bet is to have your local auto trim comapany sell you a quart of their glue. put it in an old siphon feed paint gun (find em between 20.00-50.00 bucks at Pivco-harbor freight.

I havent done one yet but in the old days I would've cut my existing foam down to keep the existing seat pan contour and glued layers over it and form the seating surface.

While building my seat the old foam doesnt seem to take to being glued to (old and dry) so if I am working on an old seat. I would build from scratch by layering

I'm in the stage of buying a new cover, and reshaping my KZ750L seat. I need to cut it down to install the ELR seat cover. I may be bugging you for advice real soon lol.

i like you sir am afflicted with the upholstery bug have been for twenty years .i hope you get better as well as myself .symptoms being broke, dirty tare downs ,being broke and the last of a dieing trade . :sick: but you know i still love it ! :woohoo: as far as forming foam elc. knife and high speed air tools messy yes but it works. good luck and may the upholstery gods favor you

M357.5 wrote: I'm in the stage of buying a new cover, and reshaping my KZ750L seat. I need to cut it down to install the ELR seat cover. I may be bugging you for advice real soon lol.

anything I can do to help.

nobody wrote: i like you sir am afflicted with the upholstery bug have been for twenty years .i hope you get better as well as myself .symptoms being broke, dirty tare downs ,being broke and the last of a dieing trade . :sick: but you know i still love it ! :woohoo: as far as forming foam elc. knife and high speed air tools messy yes but it works. good luck and may the upholstery gods favor you

For sure a dying trade

the owner of the bodyshop was in Daytona during bike week and watched a guy make a harley seat so when he got back I got on the phone got some samples sent. we ordered a sheet of the closed cell and then 5 gal of glue about 15 sheets of varying foam 10 yards of headliner, couple yards of vinyl and couple yds of different faux leather patterns (he wants to learn the trade lol)

but as far as my projects go broke is the norm at the present

All u have to do now is come up with a nice custom shaped kz design. and we can all order from u. there is a guy on ZRXOA.com that has made a couple hunderd seats for those guys.
Check this out.
www.zrxoa.org/forums/showthread.php?174709-Mr.-Wog-s-seat-mod

the $ is $240 now.