Do you drive naked? I always do at the dragstip, save some weight!

 

dash and bar cant weight more the 20lbs. besides you need it to mount your steering colum to it.

 

Fil your tires with Helium...j/k

 

You don't really need another person to help you with the dash. I've had to take mine in and out multiple times just so I could fix my wiring for my auto-trans conversion that was done rather sloppily by the previous owner.

T.c.

 

the information lupe was from the ol big list...
still have some of the parts pulled.. lemme know what you want weighed..

 

All of the heater and AC stuff from behind the dash, the ducting, firewall rubber matt, Air Bag CPU and wiring and whatever else

Hey, you asked

 

hello. the abs computer thingy at the back, can u just unplug it and dump it after u eliminate the abs stuff up front? would u need to do anything else to eliminate the computer thingy? no error codes? and i also understand u "should" remove the "speed sensor" when u eliminate the ABS. how do i do this? TIA ya' all.

 

You can just unplug it.

 

If your car came equipped with cruise control, you can remove the computer for that as well. It's on the driver's side footwell, and very easy to get to. See pages Q-10 and Q-11 of the Body Electrical Troubleshooting Manual for more details on the location.

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Mine is a R1 so I don't have that.....

Is there anything else you guys can think of?

 

Lupe, have you looked in the FSM and determined what you do/dont need? Thats what I would do..just skim through.

 

hey, thanks. With regards to your weight reduction quest, there really isnt much more you can get rid of anymore, as you've decided to keep it "streetable" with the full interiors. I assume you've completely removed the A/C & P/S. How about front wiper, wheel well liner, tar, rebar, front indicator lights, simplified wiring, etc? just shooting out ideas here.

 

I'll bet you've already thought of this, but the inertial reels for the seatbelts are pretty heavy.


You can save a bit of weight by removing the wiring for parts you've already removed. Here's spme RX-7 trivia for you: the R1 models had wiring installed for cruise control, even if they weren't equipped with it.


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remove the tar under the carpet.

Its a huge bitch, I just did it in my car,

but i'm willing to bet I got up 45 lbs of the stuff...

 

45lbs from just the tar?

For real? You didn't happen to weigh it did you? Did you remove the tar from behind the dash too or just under the carpet?

 

We did the tar removal on my friends TII and got out 25-30 lbs of it. Its a bitch but worth it. You lay the carpet back down and nobody knows ya did it.

 

Well, I removed the tar from the drivers side pan and tranny tunnel (Still have lots more to remove). I can see myself losing 30lbs from just the tar itself. The weight adds up pretty quick.

I did this without a heatgun or without dry ice

 

get dry ice, it works like a charm.

i have no carpet so i had to get ALL of the tar off (paint) and that is where it becomes a biotch