Well, I decided to move the battery to the storage bin behind the passenger seat to get more weight to the rear of the car and clean up the engine bay, so I'm ripping out the rear storage bins, and AGGHHHH!!! SOUND DEADENING MATERIAL!!! This, of course, HAS to go. Ripped out a good 5-10lbs of sound deadening material, the heavy rubber stuff, then removed about 5lbs of rust chunks, then low and behold, theres some stereo equiptment bolted inside the storage bin compartment!!! amps or something!!! Ripped those two out, there goes another 5-10lbs!! woohoo!! Now I just gotta get some $5 rectangular headlights and a couple pieces of plexiglass, grab some sheet aluminum, and rip out the stock pop-up lights, and make my own flush mount setup, hack out another 20lbs from the very front of the car, and she'll be kickin some butt Maybe then I'll find someone with a pipe bender, borrow my friend's welder, and make custom headers Then i could kill the air pump and thermal reactor too!! woohoo! Ripping useless parts out of the car is fun This is all in a quest to get into the 14s without buying any performance parts, lol 15.8 and counting!!

 

I was thinking of ripping out the storage bins or custom making so 1 side is still there to store items you dotn want to been seen..jumper cables..oil etc..

 

did you actaully weigh that stuff? I had those two amps out last weekend fixing some rust and a doubt both of them together weigh more than a couple pounds. Same for the sound deadening.
I stripped every bit of the stuck on stuff from a car, filled a fairly decent sized trash bag, even vacuumed the little bits and dumped that into the bad and total for the whole car was just inder 13#.

Later
Randy

 

I reciently discovered that the large A/C main pulley was removable and since I no longer have A/C I removed it.

 

no, i didnt weigh it, and I probobly was exaggerating, but I get all excited when I find stuff to remove Speaking of which, I just pulled out another speaker, now I only have one left, the drivers side front, which is a pain in the *** to get at so I might just leave it there. (radio and tape player died, so i figured I'd just rip the whole thing out)

I should probobly find a place to weigh this thing, its gotta be pretty damn light by now, I've pulled a ton of stuff off. Maybe I'll stop by the junkyard one of these days.

 

If you have a gravel pit nearby they have scales and might be willing to let you drive on. Any place that sells truck loads of whatnot by the pound will have a scale. Truckstops sometimes have them too.

 

Yeah I took my car to the gravel pit last time it was weighed,it was 2250 I think with out me in the car..

Stock is suppose to be about 2,345,So I did ok..Just removing uneeded stuff,now I will be doing weight reduction..

I wil get a weight in soon..

 

Yeah we can all have a friendly competition of, who's car weigh's the least!

Only wish I didn't have the sunroof.

 

SO when are you going to start drilling holes in the frame and body???

 

If I was trying for a lightweight car, I think I would go crazy and have EVERYTHING that was able to be ripped out, out in a day.

I am guessing since you dont have or care about the stereo, this probably isn't a daily driver. Why not just take out the passenger seat? (provided you still have one)

 

already there! lol

its easy to replace. Also today I just went down and had the sheet metal fabricators make me up a dash... not in aluminum yet though. I had him use steel cause' its' cheaper, and I can use the steel for a fiber/carbon mold it it seems to work out.

I guess I'll find out tommorw.

 

All the sound deading on the floorpan adds up to about 40 lbs. Thats all of it, front to back. (84 GS)