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what are some of the heaviest crap on our cars that we could remove? look at my sig i have already removed the A/C, Cruise control, and all emissions crap. i need to know what else i could remove to lose some more pounds.
I head of cutting the spare tire thing in the trunk out but how much weight would that lose?
thanx
tossing everything in the interior minus the drivers seat and the dash board is gooid for about 150lbs.
Well how much do you weigh? I usually tell people if they still want weight reduction after the usual a/c and power steering removal to go on a diet and lose some weight that way (everyone wins that way, b/c it reduces weight and is very healthy) But if you're not over weight at all don't diet b/c we don't need ya turning into one of those bulimic people that hurls after every m&m. Do you have all your seats removed? (except for drivers seat)
im not fat at all i only weigh like 116,
i dont wanna strip my interior because its my only car, i may consider removing the rear seats but they dont weight that much anyways.
See I'm waiting to strip my car until I have a new car and then my 3g will be my race car.
hey do u have any pics of your car? do u have AIM instant messenger?
full custom carbon fiber replica bodywork
daaaamn 116!!!!!!
man what are you, like 4 feet tall.....thats underweight
lol no... :smokin:
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Originally posted by Mantis88LX
im not fat at all i only weigh like 116,
i dont wanna strip my interior because its my only car, i may consider removing the rear seats but they dont weight that much anyways.
I have poped poop that weighed more than you ha ha ha ha ha ha
I'm 150 and I'm 6' tall... thank you Jerred. :lol
Anyways if you don't plan on over heating you can remove the resivoir for the radiator fluid. Just make sure you have a good radiator cap. This is more to free up space and dump the extra fluid.
i better watch out for the flying poop that is bigger than me. :eek: :lol
i guess i am small for my age, ohh well most of my friends are the same height, weight, so it doesnt bother me much :super:
Carbon Fiber Body! LOL that will reduce alot of weight.
WAHHHHHH
IM IN NEED A WEIGHT REDUCTION :(
Stop picking on fat people, jerks! :)
remove your window squiter assembly.I did that and its good for about 6 pounds.I dont use mine much anyways
find a manual steering rack from canada so you can dump the manual rack and lines/pump and all that shit. Not turning that stupid pump anyways frees up some power. I was thinking about torching my trunk too... bye bye tire well... Oh you know what i almost forgot, our mirrors weigh like 10 lbs a pair (pick them up their not exactly featherweight) and if you were to put on some aftermarket ones somehow, i saw it done on a civic once, the guy made a plate to fit where the old mirrors were and he put some kind of universal mirror on it. Also did you remove the a/c compressor and bracket? Its a pain but it weighs like 25
lbs or so. Also there is a receiver/dryer bottle near your ps fluid reservoir for your ac (under it, closer to the headlight) and that weighs not much but you dont need it... Also if you dont have ac you dont need the condensor fan, just pull the relay and fan fuse as well as the fan itself on the back of your radiator (its on the side nearest to the belts) oh ya ditch all the stuff in ur car you dont need.
get rid of the entire stock air box assembly....replace it with light aluminum short ram..which is even lighter then CAI...but less power...
the air box ain't that heavy...but you could trim the edges and expose a K&N filter... :)
ok i have already....
Removed AC compressor, condensor, all lines and bracket
removed Winshield washer tank lines and motor
removed all emissions crap
Stripped the trunk to bar metal
i know i removed some more small stuff but i cant think of it right now.
looks like its time to take a torch to your trunk
Thats it... leave it at that, more small stuff are not going to make a noticable difference.
Heater core/ A/C blower / Dash / door pannels / Interior Trim / Stereo speakers / power window motors / headlight motors / Exterior trim / bumper foam rear-front /
heat shields under the car, all the foam and stuff under the carpet of the car.
the heat shield is low CG weight... it's good to have more weight near the floor that serves a function. but yeah get rid of the under carpet stuff.
you can cut out some of the excees metal in your door panels,just be careful not to cut anything important off.bty is that plexiglass on your hatch 88turbo?
the AC unit weighs 49lbs . how much weigh have i removed with all that stuff gone? hmm
and has anyone here did the spare tire thing were u cut that out?
hey maybe you could do wut justin did... replace your back windows with lexan or somthing... just a thought
yeah strip all your interior make your car look gay and ugly as hell to gain a hundredth of a second, sounds like a fuckin deal to me!
ummmm why the fuck would you take out the styrafoam* behind the bumpers?!? you know that is the most stupid thing I have ever heard, all the styrafoam in the whole car probably weighs less than one of your shoes you got on, except you gotta take the bumper off to get it all out. you will be better off just leavin your shoes on the ground before you race.
I agree... Stripping the interior is gay, but i have heard of taking out the metal in the bumpers, but it sounds like thatll get you killed in an accident
LOL, I knew it was only a matter of time before you got involved in this thread Justin. :lolQuote:
hey, did you have to run a vertical center support to keep that lexan from sagging in the middle? PS, how did you mount that without the use of rivets?
Removing the front bumper steel insert would at least make it so almost any front impact will total your car.
Mantis, it sounds like you've done every practical weight-saving measure already and doing anything else will make the car noticeably less useful, safe, etc.
yeah unless you do somthing extreme like cut out the spare tire well
then what do you do after its gone? just a huge hole? or cover it in an aluminum sheet?
Travis
yea thin aluminum i would think, im just wondering how much weight that would remove, if its alot would it effect the handling of the car since it will be real light in the ass end,
yeah thin aluminum but bolt it in. I think that should remove about 30lbs, maybe more im not really sure. If your worried about your weight distribution, why not move the battery to the trunk too?
if you dont have a 5 speed, get one, they're lighter than the auto's buy about 25-40 lbs...
lighter aluminum wheels, 4 wheel disc brakes would lighten up the rear a tad...
take out the spare, strip the trunk, make a flat bed trunk... remove the spare tire well. you could take off the bumpers and replace the steel bars with lighetr ones... tube steel... less than an eighth thick...
umm, aluminum radiator... strip the interior.. then swap in sparco, or momo seats and make a custom rear seat that's lighter... lose the carpeting. you can strip the dash apart but i dont know if that'd weight much.. you could also strip out the doors.
yeah with lightweight wheels you can lose 20 pounds for the set, assuming you still have the steelies, but it might actually be more im not sure what the steelies weigh
smash out all the windows, they are heavy....you can ditch the headlights, motors, taillights, and exhaust too!
LOL, actually the headlight motors are heavy, you can rig them to stay up all the time.
im sorry but stripping everything in the car is so fucking gay. why would you take out the carpet? it weighs like 2 lbs. unless you can strip over a hundred lbs you aint gonna feel shit anyway.
They stip it because they want to. You don't have to do it if you don't want to. But if they do, good for them. They'd beat you in a race.Quote:
Originally posted by SiCReX
im sorry but stripping everything in the car is so fucking gay. why would you take out the carpet? it weighs like 2 lbs. unless you can strip over a hundred lbs you aint gonna feel shit anyway.
i can notice a difference in my car with about 40-50lbs of weight change... I removed a/c, condenser fan, stripped trunk and various other small things
I would love to cut up my trunk and replace eveything with aluminum, but then I would need to slap on one of those stupid ass ricer spoilers to keep the ass of my car glued to the road.
Well, i dont think thats nessecerily true, you can relocate the battery to the trunk for better weight transfer... and lighten the front end with some cf hood and parts
Wow.. Car is going to be real light.. But my new stock will still be faster.. hahah
hey since there is no limit as what to remove, why not take off all of your doors and put in vinecian blinds. I did on my car and it looks GREAT!!. also you could get a smaller gas tank.( hey more trips to the gas staion but you'll get there faster) also you could cut off the back brakes assembly since you dont use them that much anyways. lol!!!
Now this is becoming a waste of space and any serious points. KNOCK IT OFF!!!
I would love to start cutting up stuff, but in order to lighten up the front to balance everything would cost some good money, as int the carbon fiber hood and others.
yeah. Maybe you could also replace your back windoz with some plexiglass, or cut out some of the sheetmetal in the trunk lid or somthing
I was actually thinking of closing the trunk off permanently... and riveting an aluminum cover up... then just adding in my brake lights and reverse lights... it wont be pretty unless I can get some fiberglass to mold the parts together... but it will be a lot lighter.
how much weight would you save?
I dunno... well see if I ever get around to doing it... I'll probably add in a custom aluminum flush mount spoiler to the rear as well.
Alright Mantis you are removing all of this stuff and you still haven't gotten a WEBER!!!! What's wrong with you. You could have kept everything you had and still would have had more power than you do now. I know I will probably remove most of that stuff too but wouldn't you rather enjoy the car a little longer than driving in a gutted car with a stock carb. GET A WEBER!!!
Don't dis the stock carb... you just have to be willing to take it to the next level is all. Have you checked out the sticky I made in carb tech? STOCK CARB MODS
Anyways... the thread is about weight reduction not carbs.
damnit I forgot what I was about to say... I'll edit it in later.
Well I just figured I would help him get his 3G going faster b/c that's ultimately what he wants. I mean to go through all that weight reduction and you have the stock carb holding you back. Throw on some 40's and then that 3G will cook it's opponents. I would do it that way at least before I gut the car. But that's just how I would do it. I would gut the car as a last resort to gain the extra edge on the competition. But hey I guess free mods easier to get than $300 mod.
hell yeah, im trying to get as much power as i can with stock carb and manifold right now, my next plans are to port the intake manifold a bit if its possible,
ohh and has anyone see at Autozone in the carb section they got these adaptors to adapt a 4 barrel carb to any 2 barrel manifold.
I thought I saw something like that but I just figured it wouldn't work for my car. I plan to make a custom manifold and attempt to port and polish it. Don't know how well it will go though. Dremel and a grinding bit set is what I got for the job. No I just need the intake manifold.
Ok you guys I just shelled my front bumper...
I used 2 custom "L-Brackets" made out of 12'ish guage steel and a 1/4" diameter steel rod.
I drilled 1 hole in each bracket to be mounted where the lower bolt for the headlight assembly goes. (The bolt between the radiator and the headlight)
then a ran the 1/4" diameter rod between the two brackets...
the rod was long enough to extend past the brackets 6" on each side.
Zipties secure the bumper in place... I originally planned to use the 1/4" rod to hold the zip ties but decided to secure it to the upper radiator support.
just to let you know the orientaion of the pic is:
Left = rear of car
Right = front of car
well looks like Mikey went to work again... HA - HA
I completed shelling front and rear bumpers... wee! :D
ok in the pic below, the triangle piece is cut from the rear metal bumper... when you go to reinstall it you need to line up the last hole on the triangle with the first hole on the car frame... that way it sticks out far enough so you can weld on the flat bars for the new bumper support.
the lengths are shown on each piece in the pic. and the assembly and welding is pretty straight forward.
I didn't use the round 1/4" rod this time... the bumper was so dam snug when i stuck it on that all i did was screw in the screw on the fender well edge.
just to let you know the orientaion of the pic is:
Left = front of car
Right = rear of car
WTF... did I just stupify everyone by actually doing a mod instead of spending 5 different threads and 50 posts talking about it?
:lol
Come on peole I need your input/questions. :D
Well I'm kinda confused about what your doing. Are you getting rid of your renforcement bar? And yes I'm at work again but I'm stressed out from trying to get my car ready for the Ontario meet. I hate asking people for money but I might just have to. Ok would you expect your g/f to help buy the parts you need to replace in order to go to her families place in NY? I honestly thought she could chip in a little bit b/c I wouldn't buy the stuff if I wasn't going there. Sorry for getting of topic but I'm really freaking out. I just hope my car will be ok.
You are stressed out. NO I'm stessed out. My fuel pump is taking a shit on me again, eventhough it is brand new and was put in about 5 months ago. I'm pissed. :mad:
It's just the plastic bumper shell held on with the custom mounts I made... The big bulky metal bumper is removed.
here is a pic that shows which bolt I used... it's the passenger side of the car.
The headlight assembly stays in it's place... you only remove the bolt and add in the L bracket, then bolt everything back down.
Man that sucks, but I meeting her family for the first time in NY, and I need to fix rotors, calipers, pads, drums, shoes, CV shaft, CV joints, and CV boots. I'm pretty stressed out b/c I gotta magically come up with this money for all this and still be able to have enough money to go to NY and Ontario and get back here. My g/f said she'd loan me some money. My mouth dropped, I was thinking she could help out a little bit b/c I just replaced her $300 amythist ring she LOST!!! :angry: And to top it off I think I'm getting sick too.
Oh I understand now Mike. Thanks for clarifying that. I'm glad you got something there to protect the 3G at least. I was hoping you just didn't take the bars out.
? the bars are out? what bars do you mean? there is nothing protecting the car except for the skinny plastic floating on my custom mounts.
Well when I got rear ended awhile back this shop said my re enforcement bar was no good (rusted and it was hit so it was shattered) And I needed a new one. I don't know if there is one in the front but I'd assume there is one for safety reasons.
stock the car has both front and rear metal bumpers... the plastic is just a fancy cover (sometimes called a bumper cover), which hides the nasty shapen metal behind it...
inbetween the metal bumper and the bumper cover there is bumper foam.
anyways safety is not my concern... I'll protect myself by other means, like not doing risky things when I drive. :D
Defensive driving is an art...
its not you you have to worry about its the other dickface drivers.. ill keep my bumper reinforcement thanx
how about removing some of the extra wiring leftover from the all the crap that is gone like the ac. And what about that damn dome light too. Dont forget to take off the inner door handles that has to be like 15 lbs for all 4. And the door open switches have to be made of iron. The headliner, door lights, glove box, and ac switch are all superfluous right? How about a race car style sheetmetal dash with lightweight gauges.
I'm making a fiberglass dash, you can see what it will look like if you visit my cardomain site... plus I already have 2 pro comp autometer guages.
I was going to rewire the whole car but the stupid combination switches along the steering collum makes it a hastle since I don't want to lose those.
is this going to be street legal? if not, why not take out the tail lights and cover them with aluim.? or cut the middle section out of your back bumper for less drag. i heard that helps a lot.
zach
Sounds pretty cool.Quote:
Originally posted by A20A1
I'm making a fiberglass dash, you can see what it will look like if you visit my cardomain site... plus I already have 2 pro comp autometer guages.
I was going to rewire the whole car but the stupid combination switches along the steering collum makes it a hastle since I don't want to lose those.
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