carnagexxxx

I've had the interior out of my S13 Coupe for about 2 years now. I daily drive it and love it on my 13 mile one-way trip though winding roads to work. I don't mind it at all. I took out everything with the exception of the headliner (don't ask why not). I gues it's like the guys who ride hard-tail Harleys with ape-hangers and nasty exhaust...who gives a shit about comfort when you dig your own ride!

Try not to think so much that you'll be smoking other cars as much as that you DO in fact improve power to weight ratio. When you free up some weight, your engine has less work to do...that being said you aren't going to turn your car into a go cart or something... but it helps a tiny bit.

It is loud. If you have an lsd (i have KAAZ 2-way) you might get a bit annoyed but if you have an exhaust it's loud no matter what. Sure, I've gotten looks, stares, the "why doesn't you car have insides" comments but like I said to some chick I dated once who asked "don't you think girls will not like you because you don't have an interior..." ( and I'm sure there is some on Zilvia who may agree with me on this) I told her "why in the hell would I want to date a chick who gives a damn about my car not having door panels???" Hell, I think the coolest women out there would think it's rad anyway...my girlfriend is hot as hell during a July heat wave and she doesn't give a rat's anus what my car looks like.

Try not to give a shit what other people say man. So long as it doesn't hurt other people, it's legal... live your life, build your car the way that makes you happy, and if people talk shit, tell them that once they give you money you'll give a shit what they say.

drift freaq

LOL he quotes Wikipedia hahahhahhaha. First off you could not have picked a worse source for research material. The weights of those pieces on Wikipedia are most likely done by someone with a fucked up bathroom scale.

The biggest weight factors in a S13 that are easy to remove and replace with something lighter would be the motorized front seatbelt setup (remove them and install s14 belts).

Also the rear seat belts and the rear seat. remove them and you will take out a little weight. The B pillar does not weigh 3 pounds nor do most of the plastic in back.

Seriously unless you are tracking your car constantly, its a waste of time.

To many people I know that do track their cars and stripped now wish they had a car without a stripped interior for street use.

I don't care what anyone here says fact is it does not make a big enough difference in power to weight ratio for street use.

On track it can make somewhat of difference when combined with other mods. On the street well its on you but if you don't go the track often? waste of time.

You will not lose enough weight to make your car into some magical bullet that can kick ass on cars with a lot more power.

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Flybert

Yeah, I'd have full interior in my car if it wasn't for the fact that I could store more wheels and tools in the back without it. That's the only reason why I tore it out in the first place. Coupes suck like that with their lack of space. Ideally I'd have it like this; sound deadening removed, full interior, but instead of back seats I'd have that Origin carbon fiber seat replacement and speaker deck thing. Keep it classy San Diego.

ronmcdon

I probably added some 50 lbs of sound deading & car stereo to my 240sx recently.
I don't notice any difference at all on the autoX.

you have to figure 70 lbs is barely 2.5% on an otherwise approx 2,800 car.
The difference is neglible at best.

good tunes & quieter ride > wannabe race-car posuer & obnoxious ride.

Ivan Mabatan

im gutted cuz i dont like driving ppl around at least this way i can tell em i have no back seats. also i kinda like the extra trunk room now lol

Cheesy Doriftos

delete....

bruceguy

i bet if we all hit the treadmill, we all lose more weight than the stock plastic interior! HA..

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NISMO_tuner

Personally I wouldn't strip out the interior.
I have my daily driver and I like to hit the track but I still have full interior and lots of add ons as well. Interior doesn't weigh too much to begin with. If it is a full track car I would understand why, but for a daily you would regret it after.
My daily driver is an S13 coupe and the only interior missing is in the trunk.
I took out the plastic pieces to fit my rear strut bar and subs. And it was pretty hacked up to begin with. The wooden cover is still there and my spare/scissor jack is untouched. Also I dont get the point of removing your spare (most of the people I know do that). It's actually stupid of them to do that cuz they will eventually need it when their tire goes flat.

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DataXUnknown

Unless you can make your stripped interior look like the risky devil s13 one, then do not do it. If it's a track car I probably would though, because it's so much easier to find the wires you need to splice into to install certain things and tuck the wires and all that good stuff. But if it's a daily, then hell no. I mean it makes your car look like more of a "track only" car but it's not worth it...

drift_limo

what are back seats?

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DataXUnknown

A place strictly for love making and good times, which is why we all understand why there are always at least one stain on our S13's rear seats.

zenki.life

have you ever tried to do anythin in those poor excuse for seats. waaaaay too uncomfortable. with that ridge of uncomfortableness in the middle. you might as well put the seats down in the hatch and writhe around on the rear carpet. 240's are not love making cars.

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Teddy

I daily'ed my car just like this with an open-downpipe SR for a very long time.





Sure. It looks cool. It sounds cool. It smells cool.


Does it make a difference? No.


Plus, I just put back all of my front interior including a headunit. I would do the rear as well if it were still my daily, but meh.

Honestly, I would leave it in. Looks much cooler with a classically modded clean interior.

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kcvpr

All I was trying to accomplish by my post, was introducing SEMI credible numbers to further the discussion of the topic.

Bad source or not, it's more accurate than some of the guesses of weights I have seen in this thread.

For what it's worth, A friend of mine has a stripped S14, and the road noise/rattles from it being striped is ridiculous.(although thats probably because he's a lazy bastard, and doesn't do anything right that's even remotely time consuming)

Nismoknightska-t

i gutted my ls2 s13.. dumbest shit i ever did!! but then again it wasnt my DD.. only a weekend car / street killer..

the only way i would ever gut my car again.. is if it was a full blown track car!

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xplicit240

+1 so funny and true. next thing we know the civic guys that bought 240's start putting the cut out in the back because they go so fast that too much drag comes from the bumper

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clark

was your friends interior made out of lead?

deadghost

I honestly like my stripped interior, but I actually went through the time (3~4 weeks) of using dry ice, removing the sound deading material, removed all my brown panels (got them in black), used paint thinner and lacquer, repainted it with $200.00 worth of pro paint, and I am in the process of redoing the headliner, shift boot, side panels, and putting in a bride seat. I think its a great investment seeing that I do plan on doing a full color change on my coupe. But I do have AC and the audio on its way.~my 2 cents

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Hywarp161

I stripped just the rear half of my car.

my interior was already trashed so it was no loss.


But the sound deadening is nice, and when my hatch leaks the water can't rust anything.

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drift freaq

LOL your an idiot if you think those Wikipedia numbers are better. Why don't you try and weigh some of the stuff your self?

A lot of long term members who have had their cars for a long time are speaking up in this thread.

Yet you seem to dismiss possible numbers they toss out. I suggest you respect their possible knowledge before dismissing them.

You are 17 and a noob. A lot of us have owned 240sx's for 5-10 years or more.

In fact this thread is actually pretty damn redundant as this subject has been discussed numerously in the past.

I suggest you use the search button on the forum for facts next time.

I also suggest tossing the concept of quoting Wikipedia all together, unless you enjoy looking like an idiot.

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S-Nation S13

^^^^yup yup to be honest i take mine out not for tha weight but for being the taxi cause i dont give rides to anyone lol i hate when they be asking for rides and dont put in for gas..lol JUST LOOK AT THE GAS PRICES

QuickSpoolSR

what are you like 4 ft tall, there is no possible way you can have sex in the back of a 240 hatch

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ZX88

if you drive the car on the road at all keep the interior

if its a track car who gives a fuck.

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Enna

Wow go back to school man, seriously.

I keep full interior because I see no need to strip it. My old roommate did it, regretted it later that day. I always planned on keeping stock interior, stereo, and a cage. Fuck compromises.

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kuppler8

i have a completely stripped car (bought it that way), with a bc spec 2 and test pipe, with a welded rear end, for a daily, i dont really know if its worth it or not. when i ride in my friends s13 with a full interior its no more comfortable. but thats just me. i have shaved about 300 pound out of the car all together last time i weighed the car i was at 2487 with half a tank of gas (numbers via a corner wights scale system) but still isnt to much faster than any other dohc ka. o yeah i should probly also ad that not just from interior peices i have no a.c no crusie control. nothing all emitions are gone. and i live in western new york, so a hot day for us is like 85.

David B S12

im ona roll with the god damn double posts...

David B S12

its pretty obvious, a track car has no option for interior, and every pound counts... why would you NOT improve your car by a tad just by ripping some carpet out

(i have a battery tie down, lol. that was temp


i keep the front for some comfort, but its all coming out soon, even the dash

kuruptR

i like mine the way it is, the rear seats are ugly as fuck. I'm gonna go cry now because my interior looks like shit.

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!Zar!

I see a hundreds sticker on the rear stb.

that is all.

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BustedS13

there's also a couple hundred dollar carbon fiber sheet laying over where the back seats were.

stripped interiors, form over function bro.

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