imported_One_Shot

I would like to make the car lighter and more responsive, any suggestions where I can start loosing weight?
Thanks

imported_360_vortex

- rear seat
- remove junk in the trunk
- door panels
- lighter rims

imported_Team Rukus

all depends on what you consider necessary and not necessary in a car.


if i was to gut a car and i didnt care about some things i would.

remove a/c
remove heater core
remove blower motor
remove radio
remove carpet
remove headlights
all trims inside it
quater panel inner covers
trunk cover liners and spare wheel and jack
remove sound deadner
remove seats
remove steering wheel and airbag and replace it with racing wheel
remove cruise
remove washer bottle and lines
cut bumper grilles out
remove rebars
remove passanger side mirro
remove spoiler
remove projectors and install oem lights
remove light brackets
remove power steering
remove abs
etc...

97SiR

Wow, if you remove all that I'm not sure how you can drive the car any more.

imported_Spiderman

I have 95% of that removed in my car.
I'm going to keep the carpet though.
And possibly put my rear panels in for daily driving.

imported_cho

my friend told me that cops can give u a ticket if you remove ur back seat (unless ur car is 2 seater),, is this true? coz i really want to remove mine.. just the seat and put the back rest down

i dont like carpool heheheh

thanks!

89SIHATCH?

no its not illegal, you only need seats and or working seat belts for the amount of passengers in the car.

i had no interior and drove for ever no problems at all. even was pulled over by OPP i had the fart can on (with an exhaust leak X2 loud!) , no interior and a trip permit. he just wanted to see that i had valid insurance thats it.

Dominik

I took the door panels off my mom's car to fix the window regulators and when she got pulled over "for a random spot check" they almost impounded her car.
You can't have any exposed wires apparently...

imported_BoOsTd

removeing the rebar is pretty dumb too if you plan on driving on the street. If you get rear ended without the rebar, its pretty much a write off and a total insurance loss.... The insurance would probably laugh at your claim lol.

imported_t_dot_SiR

what jay refers to is more like a drag car already... on that list of stuff to be remove, 10 of those stuff already violates the safety of driving on the road, so its probably for drag purpose

imported_cho

thanks. i took my seats out after reading ur post! hehehe f*ck carpool!

imported_starboy869

isn't the avg. is 100lbs for 1/10th of a second on the 1/4 mile?

imported_Team Rukus

personally removing anything from a civic is stupid.
the car is as light as it gets in the first place.

gutting an accord or a mustang makes sense cuz they are heavy but a civic is just retarded.

imported_viper_2_4

agreed, your going to have to remove quite a bit to make any kind of noticable difference, and if its a street car it will come at a sacrifice of comfort...

imported_t_dot_SiR

haha agree
you would probably wanna built more torque and hp over reducing the weight of a civic... the lightest you can go is probably 1900lbs... the engine and windows weighs the most unless you plan to remove all windows, consider you won't be removing your engine hahahahaha

szuberi

Jay...perhaps you should have mentioned what to keep in the car...lol

imported_Team Rukus

4 vx rims with tires
engine and tranny
and a frame is more then enough dont you think?
LOL

imported_t_dot_SiR

add on top of the list

just the driver seat
steering wheel
speedometer gauge and rpm gauge
shiftknob

no console or anything


and plus i heard the biggest weight reduction thing would be the piece of **** underneath your carpet that keeps the road noise from getting in your car... i heard the ITR doesn't have it so its lighter... that piece of **** weighs like 100lbs?

follow up on this

imported_Team Rukus

walter hell no.
you dont need seats and a meter.
those are options.
milk crate is more then enough

Nova_Dust

Sound deadening weights 7 to 8 lbs. That's it.