sparkyS13

strip interior

Eastside DriFto

Strip the rear and paint it..The back seats suck..They are on good if you are 5 feet tall or shorter. Then leave all the carpet and shit up front in...

Adeadcurrent

To give you an example, I bought an SR'D Coupe off a guy and he stripped the back seat, roof liner, and a few other things.

It looks ugly as sin right now and I am trying to pick up the interior pieces to put it back together. So that's my .02

kcvpr

Think what you want.... But to me It's VERY obvious that the numbers given before my post where complete BS.

I count TWO members with high knowledge(high posts, premium member; likely your definition of knowledge) (higher than what you posses). AND they didn't mention ANYTHING about numbers. Those who did mention numbers, OBVIOUSLY didn't know what they were talking about.

nowhere in my original post did i say the numbers where completely 100% accurate as you are suggesting I did. They are ball park estimates at best.

And BTW YOU are the one who looks like an idiot IMO. You have nothing better to do than bash on people for trying to post some semi credible info. to further the discussion of the thread.

MY age has nothing to do with your argument, yes I am young... possibly younger than most of the people posting in this thread. But it's very obvious even to a "noob" like me, that I am more mature than you.

drift_limo

what is love making??

240s have the worst backseats lol
stripped interior is cool and all but it sucks during the summer get really hot ...


i would say keep the front carpet or just the front half on interior, it still looks good ..

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dub40sx

My opinion on things.

Striping:
Saves alot of weight when you count up every little piece. I actually bagged all my sound deadening material and got I think just shy of 80lbs outta it all. I cant remember but I was super suprised with it. Ive got like large boxes with random interior goods too like heater stereo stuff, ect. All 3 boxs are pretty heavy but I havnt weighted them. When I get my car registered ill weight it and see what it is.

On the otherhand Ive driven it at 1 event and one 15min drive to a shop. Both times my incab temp had to of been like 100+ easily. Super uncomfortable to drive due to the heat not to mention the amplified sound output that everything makes. When a tire rubs my fender its super loud, tranny is noisy, small rocks and debris hitting the fenders and underside of the car are loud as fuck. And the killer is the exhaust. I put an extra muffler on it to try and tone it down a tad but it didnt do anything for inside the car.

Im at this point considering totally re-installing my interior even doing some dynomat or something. It all depends on the total weight of my car cause that will play a big roll. I dont personally dayly mine and probably wont drive it much, maybe take it out once a month and play around, otherwise its a driveway queen.

I think you will just like yourself better for leaving most of the interior in. You dont realize how nice it is untill you dont have it, then its just anoying as fuck.

gsxr141

+1 on the rocks hitting the underside of the car. it's loud as hell.

kuruptR

80lbs, would be including sound deadening and?

I stripped the deadening and i believe it was 20lbs or less.

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charlie321

My car is a daily as well as a track car. I prefer to have full interior. Gutted can look nice like shown in some examples above, teddy's car etc.

Cage + full interior FTMFW ("yeah the back seats are in there, but you can't get into it, no ride sorry!")



Drift freaq is just trying to lead you in the right direction. Harsh, but in a helping way. No need to insult him like that. He's been around S chassis for a very long time, resulting in alot of experience and knowledge that he kindly shares with all of us. Please keep this stuff in pm's. Mature? lolololol

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s14unimog

Keep the interior... Like most have said already, the cars are light and if you start making any power, it won't really matter; honestly, you'll be looking for weight. Plus, once you take the sound deadening out, you hear E-V-E-R-Y-T-H-I-N-G

A thought that you might consider, if you do a cage and have to remove the back seat and surrounding trim. Why not just re-carpet that area. I saw a 911 Turbo once that was done like that and its been my goal to create ever since. I think it looks dirty as fu*k to see cage bars go down to carpet.

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burninskulls0911

the biggest con right there!

Choku_Dorian

Track car - Gut it

Street car - Keep it clean

Dirty interior? - strip it

Clean interior? - Keep it

/thread.


i reduced like 1000lbs of dirt, sand, wet carpet and dirty pennies...

Girls would rather your car look like a race car than Abe Lincoln's graveyard.

(not that i care what girls think, i am married. and my car is 98% track only)

CamryOnBronze

I drive my 240 daily. I stripped the interior when I did the build over the winter, but put it all back in before I drove the car that way. I am now rocking full interior (including hatch panels and carpet) with sound deadening removed and it is a pretty nice ride. The car is honestly pretty quiet- I can hear rocks hitting the fenders sometimes and whatnot, but 240s never had a luxury interior noise level anyway.

I took the seatbelts out of the back seat just to have another reason that no one can ride back there.

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zorak

I kept all of my interior in.

I'm also doing a bolt-in cage while retaining most of the interior.

clark

I stripped all my carpet for the following reasons:

1. it wasn't the original carpet anyway, the previous owner terd used gorilla glue and some cheap gray carpet to redo the interior.

2. smelled awful, looked awful. after ripping up all the carpet, i chipped up all the gorilla glue and used fantastic to clean the entire interior.

3. plan on eventually getting new interior from like stockinteriors.com or something like that

4. all my plastic panels are still in, sound deadening is still in

5. I have a coupe and am debating getting rid of the rear seats because from my guesses, the previous owner spilled an entire container of boxed wine on the rear seats (based on look and smell). i plan on making a simple barrier out of wood or something to partition the trunk and cabin area.

i do notice it's a LITTLE louder but again, it's a 240, my turbo and exhaust drown everything out anyway. lol i need a louder stereo.

i daily it, it doesn't bother me...yet

just fuckin strip it, see how you like it, and then you always have the option of putting the interior back in.

mikefc

Only thing i liked about having a the rear stripped was driving when it was wet out because the water splashing in the wheels wells sounded cool... other than that it wasnt my thing.

Like clark said if you dont like having it stripped just put the interior back in.

sparkyS13

does stripped increase fuel mileage

and what's sound deadening because all i stripped was he hatch panels kept the carpet

David B S12

its obvious if a car is lighter, YES the gas mileage is increased.... what the fuckkk


why is this thread here, its pretty damn simple, stripping the interior, IS weight, if your going to strip, take it all out... no dash, no hvac no ac no interior... dedicated track cars dont need that shit.... if you are worried... keep your dash... if you cant bear some heat, or if you cant wear a firesuit in the winter keep your ac and heat... but that beats the point... because you need ALL the weight out

why the hell is everyone so interested in keeping there junky nissan interiors? u realize its cheap ass non luxury shit right? go buy a beamer lol


and to the people, not liking to "hear shit".... on a track car its a good thing to be connected to what exactly is going on with the car, listing to the chassis flex, the exaust, anything caught up in the wheel, etc..

if its a "street car" put your ebay intake and exuast on and just drive it... dont strip the interior... anddont add any more race modifications so you can drive it around town for no reason.... and waste good parts... and if you want modifications like that for street racing... my opinion street racing is stupid... unless your in a vacant state

ive seen 240's weight brought down to the lightness of a corolla.... after lots of weight loss.... imagine that, how much gain you get from putting a sr, or kade into a corolla, but thats after, light fenders get put on... the quarter panels get cut up and lighter overfenders are placed on, truck support is cut, hood support is cut, holes in gussets, rear hatch replaced with lighter one, or none at all, etc.. removal of interior, is the first step, and is the cheapest

HunsakerS14

its really up to you.

I have sort of a stripped interior, well really all I did was remove the back seat, and instead of having that bare metal show I put down some carpet. did a few years back because I didnt want a back seat, really quite pointless in a 240, but i didnt want the look of shit metal. so here's what i did. hate or appreciate aint no biggy. also I recommend if you dont all ready, get a black interior. I've switched mine over and its just really so much better looking.



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DALAZ_68

I KNEW IT

EXCATLY, hes been here since 03...OG's know stuff

thats why u have a track car AND, a DD...lol

include the weight of the AT seatbelt assemblies,rails,center console ecu (under the rear center console area), belts that come from the carpet, thats roughly another 25 pounds of weight roughly...most likely less...so in total maybe 90 or so pounds...maybe 100 if u take off sound dedening...

the only car i see a reason for stripping is the hatch...TIRES GALORE, i wanna say, with removing the pass seat, u could stack maybe 2 full sets of tires in the hatchback...

and u want to take off the sound deadening, during summer heat it is an annoying sticky mess...

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DataXUnknown

haha I know. It's been tried. But I just noticed how there is always a stain on S13 rear seats from something so I just made up that excuse.

Mr. Insurance

I would keep the interior if you plan on keeping it as a street car. Having a back seat can be nice when you need to give people rides and you all want to drive together. San Diego Auto Insurance
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jbuckley

stripped ugly unless its a nice car

full interior for everyone else

dahveed

the only thing i've taken out my S13 are the backs seats, because they were in horrible shape lol. i just left the carpet that attaches to the back of it to cover the metal lol

BustedS13

fuck that. if more than one other person is going anywhere, let a guy with a sedan drive. everybody has "that friend" with the family car.

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ronmcdon

Rear seats on the S-chassis are more or less non-functional.
It's not like anyone other than a small child/dog can fit back there comfortably anyhow.

I just see the rear seats as additional sound deadening.
seems like being intolerant of loud cars, just comes with old age.

DALAZ_68

agreed, theres always someone...

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s14driver

Woudnt you rather whope someone in a race or on track, meet the fools you just owned, have them look at your car and see that you got all your interior, ps, and AC for the way home?

usdm180sx

Finally installed my cage WITH interior panels. I'll take better pics tomorrow:

Before panels:


After:


I missed by about 1/2" on the right side. Oh well:

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ixfxi

you realize that with a fucking CAGE, there is no benefit to having a rear interior or driving the vehicle without harnesses? anyone in the back can get seriously injured if they manage to hit that cage, and the front should be strapped in as well to prevent that.. so harnesses are a must. and if you run harnesses, there is absolutely no excuse for having rear seats, because then your rear passengers cannot get out since they are blocked by the straps.\

ditch the rear shit...


and you... mister 1 post. i hope you die, just because your name is Mr. Insurance. I hate insurance.