Weight Reduction, anyone gut their interior? Options

[consalvochris]

I was wondering how much weight we would save by gutting our interior and anything else you all can think of. I want to gut my car out and just have one or two racing seats, but if it only saves me 100 pounds, hell no.

[jcbass7]

my car is gutted from the driver seats back with the exceptions of the plastic trim panels.. no spare tire etc. It's actually hellllla loud now because i hear the rear suspension clunk and i hear the road so much more since there is nothing to muffle the sound. I am going to dynamat a lot of the rear to solve this but that stuff isn't cheap and is only going to add the weight i reduced....

[consalvochris]

have any idea how much weight you saved?

[soven]

the seats aren't heavy . probably only as heavy as the spare tyre.

[jcbass7]

have any idea how much weight you saved?

Not enough for it to make much of a difference. One time i cleaned out my car and weighed all the crap i had sitting in it and it totalled 135 pounds. I bet i saved a crap load more by just keeping the car clean and ncluttered.

the seats aren't heavy . probably only as heavy as the spare tyre.

Agreed, the reason i took them out, is because i hate having people in my back seats, i'm 6'4 and someone behind forces me to drive al crammed up. I'm also sick of giving people rides at school. and ive decided to go nuts with some fiberglass and build some custom enclosures where the back seats were

[trd94]

i have a 94 st coupe and before i gutted it i weighed it , with my audio in it and every thing and i came in at 2980 lb after i gutted it and did a fiberglass speaker box z3 fenders and turbo stuff it comes in at 2500 lb if i took out the audio stuff i would say i could save another 100 lb or so

[j0e_p3t]

backseat delete, spare tire removal, cf hood, cf hatch, plexiglass rear hatch window, fiberglass fenders, anything else i missed... around how much weight would that reduce?

This post has been edited by j0e_p3t: Jan 3, 2007 - 12:26 AM

[azian_advanced]

i'm guessing close to 100 lbs...
btw, a CF hood and rear hatch with plexiglass rear window will save the most weight imo. also maybe ABS, A/C, power steering removal and light weight rims as well. oh and maybe keep your gas tank near empty all the time.

is there even a place to get custom plexiglass windows made for our cars?

[6strngs]

backseat delete, spare tire removal, cf hood, cf hatch, plexiglass rear hatch window, fiberglass fenders, anything else i missed... around how much weight would that reduce?

I've replaced my hatch (with an oem one) and I'd say that the hatch with the back window by itself probably about 80 pounds. so a cf one with a plexiglass window would probably save 50+ pounds. I've also put on fiberglass fenders, and I'd say you probably only save like 2-3 pounds per fender. the stock fenders aren't very heavy. I don't know how much the hood, spare tire, and backseat weigh, so I can't help you there.