Livable Weight Reduction Options

[Coomer]

Tonight was a sad night. On the way home I was on the freeway alone and a gutted, loud EF Civic hatch got next to me and revved for a minute. We slowed down to 60 or so, I dropped it down to third, and floored it until about 75(This was in a 70 MPH zone.) Sadly, the gutted EF pulled on me...I'm confident that it didn't have a B16 because it wasn't too fast, but it was obviously modded.

But anyway, it made me sad, and the whole way home I was thinking about what I could remove to save some weight off of my car. Here's what I came up with so far. Keep in mind that I want my car to still be daily-drivable and comfortable.

• A/C compressor, condensor, lines, and whatever else is hidden away in the dash that's related to the A/C (A/C doesn't work anyway)
• 2 10" Xtant subs in my very heavy MDF box and my JBL BP300.1 amp
• Spare tire (Fix-a-flat has worked fine for me before.)
• Passenger airbag (I don't think it'd deploy anyway since I have no driver's airbag)
• Airbag and cruise control computers
• That sound deadener stuff that's stuck to the metal of the floor (will be replaced with Ensolite foam)
• Added RaamMat sound deadener

I'm keeping my power steering/dash/carpet/seats for sure. I also am looking into buying some lightweight 16" or 17" wheels. What do you guys think? Is there anything not too important to comfort that I'm missing?

[Coomer]

-you could gut the ac compressor.
-the pass air bag weighs a lot....prob 20lbs. if you do that take out all of the wires and sensors in the front and computer.
-cruise control box would be good and it would give your engine more breathing room.
-you could take out your windshield wiper fluid/container.
-you could take out your antenna parts (motor etc).
-get lighter rims.
-put on a lighter steering wheel.
-keep only 1/4 tank in your car.
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I'm just going to take out the compressor altogether. The cruise control box is already gone, and I removed the computer for it last night. I use my windshield wiper fluid sometimes, so I want to keep that. My antenna motor is already removed. I'm hoping I can find a good deal on a lighter set of rims. I already got a new lighter steering wheel, and I often drive with less than a half tank in my car.

Don't forget too that rotating mass is by far more important that the dead weight in the car. So think about getting a lightweight flywheel, clutch kit, rims, even using synthetic tranny fluid... But that all costs money whereas stripping stuff out of the car doesn't
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I had a lightweight flywheel and didn't like it...I prefer a stock flywheel more for comfort reasons. Do they make lightweight clutch kits? I have an Exedy kit right now and I like it, so there's no changing that. See above about the rims. And I have synthetic tranny fluid already.