Weight reduction

[DSC]

Well a while back, I removed my spare tire, jack, that board over the spare, and my carpet/insulation from the trunk. Today I took out my back seat, passenger seat, and middle consoule thing (from ash tray back). Carpet is still in because I'm lazy but I got about 1/3 of the sound deading stuff from under and behind the where the back seat was. It feels/sounds soo cool now all striped <img src="http://www.zilvia.net/f/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/cry.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':cry:'> makes me want to go race <img src="http://www.zilvia.net/f/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/cry.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':cry:'>
Tomorrow I'll take out the drivers seat and maybe some of the middle consule and take the carpet out. Then start scraping away sound deading from there too. I probably won't finish tomorrow but I'll put just my drivers seat back in and drive around with it like that for a day or so <img src="http://www.zilvia.net/f/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':)'> that'll be fun.

[boywonder]

Lemme know if you mess up the awesome weight distribution the 240 has. How bout that oversteer?

[DSC]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (boywonder @ April 06 2002,03:20)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">Lemme know if you mess up the awesome weight distribution the 240 has. How bout that oversteer?</td></tr></table><span id='postcolor'>
Umm, takeing all the weight from the back would actually cause Understeer not oversteer. I'm planning on putting the carpet and seats back (atleast passanger seat and rear seat bottom) I'm just striping it to take the sound deadening out. Fortionately, most of the sound deadening is in the middle or more fowards on the car. I think with the spare, jack, and sound deadening gone i should have dropped 40-50lbs. Noticable, but not really any big gains. Heh, really I just NEEDED to work on my car and I don't have any new parts...so weight reduction <img src="http://www.zilvia.net/f/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':)'>

[240meowth]

the rear seat really didn't weight much, and the sound profing nither, u'll loose like 30lbs? &nbsp;i sugges putting &nbsp;a new thing layer of carpet, or else ur car won't be cozy &nbsp;<img src="http://www.zilvia.net/f/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':D'> just make sure it has fire retard stuff in there, i've heard cars go up in somkes 'cause the carpet...

[AceInHole]

damn weight junkies.... it's all in your head. &nbsp;you might as well go on a diet too <img src="http://www.zilvia.net/f/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':p'>

[Goodbar6]

I took out the rear seats and sound dampening material in my s13...but i left the jack and spare tire and carpet....i also removed the A/C and its mount for some front end lightening. My car has to be bout 40 lbs lighter now. LOUD as all get out too <img src="http://www.zilvia.net/f/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':D'>
Tyler

[gschroeder78]

IIRC, you lose 0.1 seconds for every 100lbs you lose. Is no A/C and no seats worth 0.04 seconds? &nbsp;<img src="http://www.zilvia.net/f/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/huh.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':huh:'>

[AceInHole]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (gschroeder78 @ April 06 2002,11:27)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">IIRC, you lose 0.1 seconds for every 100lbs you lose. Is no A/C and no seats worth 0.04 seconds? <img src="http://www.zilvia.net/f/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/huh.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':huh:'></td></tr></table><span id='postcolor'>
unless you actually race, in which case every bit of weight savings will help even more, unless you f*** up your weight bias that much that your car handles like sh**. <img src="http://www.zilvia.net/f/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':p'>

[DSC]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (240meowth @ April 06 2002,03:29)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">...just make sure it has fire retard stuff in there, i've heard cars go up in somkes 'cause the carpet...</td></tr></table><span id='postcolor'>
I have no idea how thats possable. &nbsp;The foor from your feet to the trunk is cold to the touch after a hard run. &nbsp;Only thing thats a tiny bit warm is right above the tranny.

[sil80]

I also pulled everything from the rear seats back. The thing that sucks is that now I can hear my gas swashing around back there &nbsp;<img src="http://www.zilvia.net/f/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/crazy.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':crazy:'>
Also I got to drive my car in the rain today for the first time. OMG!!!! My ass was everywhere. Mainly it was my fault cause I was loving it.

[DSC]

Heh, i thought the gas swooshing around was cool. I'll prolly be driving my car with only 1 seat for the next week just cauz i'm not gona have a lot of time to scrape the sound deadening out. But like I said, all seats and carpet are going back in. I'm just droping the ~30lbs of sound deadening. I'll be weighing it (sound deadening) for an exact measurement after its all out to see just how much weight I lost.

[smooth240]

I had my car completly stripped including the dash for about a week before I sent the car to the paint shop. I noticed it to be only slightly more peppy off the line. One thing I noticed was the noise, every little noise that is created when driving was heard as clear as a bell.
There seemed to be no real issues with weight distribution or anything like that!
I felt like I was in a drag car.

[sil80]

DSC have you notice a whinning noise from the rear end at low rpms since you gutted the rear? Doesnt sound like its grinding just a mild wwwwwrrrrrrrrrrrr(not exhaust).

[AceInHole]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (sil80 @ April 06 2002,8:33)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">DSC have you notice a whinning noise from the rear end at low rpms since you gutted the rear? Doesnt sound like its grinding just a mild wwwwwrrrrrrrrrrrr(not exhaust).</td></tr></table><span id='postcolor'>
fuel pump

[DSC]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (sil80 @ April 06 2002,9:33)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">DSC have you notice a whinning noise from the rear end at low rpms since you gutted the rear? Doesnt sound like its grinding just a mild wwwwwrrrrrrrrrrrr(not exhaust).</td></tr></table><span id='postcolor'>
Yup. &nbsp;I think its comming from the middle of the car just in front of the rear wheels. &nbsp;Any idea what it is? &nbsp;I assumed it was a normal thing.

[AceInHole]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (DSC @ April 06 2002,10:36)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE"></span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (sil80 @ April 06 2002,9:33)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">DSC have you notice a whinning noise from the rear end at low rpms since you gutted the rear? Doesnt sound like its grinding just a mild wwwwwrrrrrrrrrrrr(not exhaust).</td></tr></table><span id='postcolor'>
Yup. I think its comming from the middle of the car just in front of the rear wheels. Any idea what it is? I assumed it was a normal thing.</td></tr></table><span id='postcolor'>
see above post <img src="http://www.zilvia.net/f/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':D'>