anyone know anything about weight reduction for our cars and how would it go about being done? how much?

 

take out the back seat passanger seat, roof liner armrest, all trunk pieces including the spare, complete dash u dont need that, all carpeting, now if you read this you'll say this guy must be stupid, well thats exactly my point it would be stupid take anything out since it will make such little different

 

o0o the passenger seat too
and the plastic engine covers
air conditioning weighs a lot
seat heaters
the paint
ur 3 foot tall parkbench spoiler

we drive a nice car, leave it that way

 

you can reduce weigth in our cars, but in the end it doesn't do much to an un/lightly modified f series engine. if you have say an h22 or turbeo, you might, might see a little improvement. but at that point it would just be for bragging rights to get a few more tenths of a second off your 1/4 slip

 

Also if you want to loose some weight and only want to turn the car into a drag car, take out the power steering and build up some arm strength to turn tha shit

i would take out the rear, seats, the speaker panel, the center console, the glove box, the trunk liner, spare, jack, and any and all stereo equipment

 

omg omg i jsut thougfht of something
the airbag has to weigh a few pounds, and you could remove all the lightbulbs too !!!!

you arent going to notice this unless you are running some crazy most likely non-street legal setup

 

Go on a diet! :P













Seriously: I think everyone who responded, covered most things. You could get a carbon fiber hood.

 

Or you could drive with no hood at all, may as well remove the headrests as well.

 

leave your fat g/f at home :P

 

damn i remember that article on the net about what they did to the altima now he should read that can anyone find the link???

 

gutting out the interior of a CL is a waste of time.
you shouldve bought a teg or something.

 

100lbs = 1/10 sec.

 

You could get underneath and scrape off the undercoating. And don't forget to peel any stickers off of your car. While they add horsepower, they also add weight and wind resistance.

 

Damn stickers, I love the hp gains but your right about the wind resistance.

 

run on all spare tires, bust out the windows, unhook the exhaust manifold and drop all the exhaust, gut everything from the interior and sit on a 5 gallon bucket, remove the a/c and the power stearing pump, remove hood and trunk

 

get a carbonfiber hood

 

take the motor out that is alot of weight. JUST BUY ALOT OF PERFORMANCE STICKERS THAT U NEVER HAD ON THE CAR ANYWAY AND THEY SHOULD COVER THE HORSEPOWER LOST FROM TAKIN OUT THE MOTOR

 

i say take the driver side seat out, too.