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  1. 03-10-2003, 03:52 PM #1
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    Ok lets do some weight reduction

    ok list everything you know of that i could do to reduce the weight of my car, i have 3 weeks to get my car 1 whole second faster so i can beat this guy at the track.
    i was thinking about removing all the tar shit under the carpet but i dont know much about doing that. is that shit pretty easy to get off?

    thanx
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  2. 03-10-2003, 03:57 PM #2
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    cut your trunck floor out... then take out every stereo ccomponent in the car.. all the seats except the driver... take the carpet out along with all the tar... get some 1986 prelude 13's.. they are sooooo light its hard to belive.. get the widest 13's you can find to fit the rims... and maybe get a weber.. that would be the best... then spray some NOS into the intake... it will give a small HP boost


    but i think the WEBER and the carpet and seats gone should get you a second off... maybe get a cam

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    i dont have enough money for the weber and such but free stuff like weight reduction i can do

    im running in the low 11's in the 1/8 mile 1/8 mile track is all we have here. so i dont know my 1/4

    but the guy i want to beat is running high to mid 10's and he is stick.

    my car is crapomatic i mean automatic

    just list everything u know i could do to get faster. i have 3 weeks
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  4. 03-10-2003, 04:29 PM #4
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    are you going for a full stripped out track only car? if so you can remove about everything thats not needed to safely drive it. hmm... mirriors, wipers, parts of the dash, interior panels, take out your spare tire that day. all the little stuff will add up.
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  5. 03-10-2003, 04:30 PM #5
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    im pretty sure he has no spare

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    yeah, i didn't see that when i scanned his list of things "stripped trunk"
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    You're not going to be able to take off enough weight to drop 1 sec in the 8th. An 1/8th mile time is about 2/3rds of what the car would run in the quarter. Shedding 100lbs wont net you much more then a 10th in the quarter. You're not going to find that much extra weight to remove.

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  8. 03-10-2003, 06:53 PM #8
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    damn, i need more power
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  9. 03-11-2003, 12:19 PM #9
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    have you done a manual secondary conversion
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  11. 03-11-2003, 12:53 PM #11
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    do the exhaust, then do the conversion.. i think there is a how to on here

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