Weight Reduction Part VI Results.
 

Well, I removed the following today. I don't drive my car in bad weather so I don't need it.

1. Sound Deadening Tar under carpet.
2. Rubber sound deadening behind dash on the firewall.
3. All Sound deadening Lint.
4. All of the rubber and foam backing on the carpet.
5. Heater core
6. A/C Core
7. Blower Motor
8. Ducting
9. Airbag computer and wiring
10. Misc

Stupid me forgot to bring a weight scale over so I'll weight it all on tuesday. All of the sound deading material filled up a yard waste bag to the top (4 feet tall).

I wouldn't be suprised if it weighs around 75 lbs. It's pretty darn heavy.

How did you take out the sound Deadening. I know its possible but its like a thick black glue isnt it?

Say goodbye to your hearing!!!

That is a lot of crap gone!

dry ice or a heat gun and a putty knife are good options^

in your sig, you say your car weights 2,295lbs, is that including driver?

I want to see more of this. :bluesuit: :bluesuit: :bluesuit: :bluesuit: :bluesuit:

I'll be interested to see the results on this.

Got pictures of the sound deadening stuff?

The thick black glue that the one guy above described is the tar right?

I removed the sound deadening with a flat head screw driver and a hammer. Mine came off in chucks the side of a football. I didn't need dry ice or anything.

My last weigh in was 2,295 without me in it of course.

I thought about gutting my car out too. I took everything out from the front seats back.
All i want is my dash, steering while and driver seat. Anything else thats removeble i wanted gone.
Thanks for the INFO been a lot of help, I guess its time to take off the dash.
Is there anything I should leave on so rain wont come in? There might be a day were I have to drive it in teh rain. (if my honda breaks down)

I've still got my interior in my car and even the stereo.......... There are always ways to lighten your ride.

Some take it more serious than others :)

All of the sound deadening weighed 34 lbs.

All of the Heater and A/C stuff weighed 29 lbs.

Combine weight lost on this diet is 63 lbs :)

So......... my car should weigh 2.232 lbs now :)

DAMN! thats a crazy light fd. good job lupe. your ride is always inspiring

I have a lot of friends that drive 240sx's for drifting and they are addicted to gutting them. The best way to remove the sound deadening material is dry ice. Buy a few lbs of it and just place it on top of the stuff for a while. Let the material freeze then chizel it off with a hammer and a sharp edge. It should come off clean and in chunks. For smaller areas or hard to read, a heat gun could work, but its messy as anything.

That is one light FD.....

It would be blasphemy if there wasnt a Part '7'

Wow!!! I just can't imagine what you had to do for that weight.

Is your given weight with an empty gas tank?

My goal is to retain the creature comforts, just in case I want to sell the car in the future... the market may be real limited for too gutted cars. Also, being a road racer at heart I need the big sway bars, big wheels, suspension etc. Getting rid of the AC is also probibitive for much of the summer we're over 100 F degrees at around my neck of the woods. This car is not going to see race track duties, just some fast, open twisties in my neighborhood mountain roads.

So, I am dieting my car, pound by pound and are down to 2685 lbs (Touring model) with 7 gallons of gas in the tank, stock wheels and tires size. I need to drop those Kuhmo tires that came with the 17 inch Forgeline wheels and replace them with either a Pirelli P Zero Rosso or Michelins Pilot PS2 as they are 7 and 6 lbs lighter per tire. That would put them pretty close to being on par with the stock wheel/tire weights.

I feel pretty much maxed out as far as what I want to stay on the car and what I can part with. Maybe an other 20 lbs but, that seem to be about it.

Albert

Mine was weighed with close to 3/4 tank of gas. I'm keeping everything that I've taken off just in case I want to sell it in the future.

LUPE your a god damn mad man!!! i've done it all on my previous cars but i wanted to keep my fd all together since they are getting rare. your making me itch! lol

Where's parts 1 thru 5? :)

how much do you weigh?

I'm going to laugh my ass off if you are like 250 lbs...

Your guess is a tad low there :rlaugh:

really? Get your ass on a treadmill dude!

theres 100 lbs right there :)

I know I know, I need to put down the dumbells :rlaugh:

Lol

:squint:

What did you do with the tuna cans underneath the seats and rear bins?

Tune cans? What the hell are you talking about ? :rlaugh:

did the paint underneath stay intact when the tar was removed...

I think the tar is put in and then the car is painted. The primer stays when you remove the tar, however.

Good job and hijack.

Could you please explain the video clip in your signature? Is that a streetfighter hes swatting?

wow that IS light
 

have you thought about taking out fuel tank and replacing it with a smaller aluminum tank? just a guess, but it might drop your weight a bit. plus the fact that youll only have like 1/4 tank of gas at all times. ive seen it done on a lot of FDs in japan.

man it must be awesome to drive a FD that light...i dont know if i could go for the noise level though. then again if your just tracking it, its not so bad.

Uh oh....here it comes.

Gray primer is left underneith the tar. My sig, streetfighter yes. :)

I was planning on doing a 10 gallon cell this summer. I still might, it depends if I keep the car or not.

It's not a track car, woman. :)

alright seems like a great thread to post this, i wanna get down to around 2600 or 2500 but like most people it gets hot in the summer and cold as fuck in winter so id like to keep the creature comfort, i was gona remove all the stock sound deadning but replace with lighter weight better performing dynomat, i was gona go with 15 gallon aluminum tank, the ford 8.8 rear with chromemolly axels, wich i know the 8.8 is about 8 pounds lighter, the axels save another 8 pounds, aluminum drive shaft, fiberglass fenders, carbon hatch lexan rear window, lighter better suspension, someone start throwin ideas at me here so i know more what to do, if lupe is under 2300 it seems 2500 is a reasonable goal even if keeping ac and heat

What do you want to keep? That's the real question. What is the car for? If its a street car, you're wasting your time. If it's a purpose built car, just find out what you need and ditch everything else. If you are just trying to ditch weight for the hell of it, you're going to end up with an empty hull that has zero creature comforts.

Get some light-weight seats, go single (Remove Accesories) with a light exhaust and you're easily down to 2,600 lbs.

It's already got an aluminum driveshaft and a CF driveshaft will save you 3 pounds and set you back about a $1000. Where did you get the weight comparisons on the chromoly driveshafts and the stock drive shafts?

Tim

My 31 spline Moser Race axles are heavy, very heavy. I don't see them weighing any less than stock axles.

LUPE, have you replaced any of your hardware (nuts, bolts, & washers) with aluminum or nylon? I'm sure that would save another pound or two. If nothing else, it would keep you busy for a while...

-s-

Nah, I haven't gone that far :chomper:

the car is a street/strip car (strip on the weekends if i have the day off) as far as what i want, i dont want it to be too noisy, but whatever im use to it by now, its alot louder without the shifter surround that bolts to the tranny hump and the center councel out as well, those are going back in tho and things should get quiter, ac is important, heat can prolly go for the soul purpose of it gets hot in that car even without the heat on, and im prolly moving to a warmer climate soon, airbags are not nessisary but have saved my life in the past with a previouse car so sketchy about that one, and as far as the rear end axel weights thats the weight i got reading about the jimlab 8.8 conversion, lol and lupe at a little over 600 hp and under 2300 pounds your car must get up and move, front end get pretty light when your on the gas?

2780 stock

-15 lbs SS downpipe
-20 lbs SS mid pipe
-20 lbs Ti cat back
-10 lbs Miata battery
-25 lbs rem spare tire & jack
- 5 lbs rem Rear luggage/bin separator panel
- 5 lbs rem front & rear tow hooks
-20 lbs rem air pump & emmisions
-10 lbs light weight pulleys & flywheel
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2650 lbs for less than $2000

-30 lbs racing seats
-15 lbs carbon fiber rear hatch
- 5 lbs carbon fiber hood
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2600 lbs with almost all interior and creature comforts ;)

i don't know if it has been posted yet but the easiest things to take off to make your car lighter, but still be able to drive it daily is by removing the bumper supports and stuff like that. the ac obviously takes off lots of weight as well. if you're really worried about the weight thing and want good ass results and you're anal like i am: get a light ass flywheel, get drilled and slotted brake rotors, get lighter wheels, get a carbon fiber hood (doesn't take off as much as you think though), get a carbon fiber hatch (now that takes some off), get plexiglass replacements for all your windows, take off your ac, get non flip-up headlights, get an upgraded exhaust and defintely replace your downpipe, and change other little things and take off anything else that you can think of that wont bother you when you're daily driving it. i haven't weighed my car yet cause it's not done yet, but once i'm done it wont be much further than lupe's weight. if anything, it'll be less (no offense to lupe or anything; your car's real tight bro). hope that kinda helped some people and i hope it wasn't too off topic in the sense that we weren't talking about all the ways of reducing weight.....
-erik

oh ya i forgot to mention removing the air pump and getting lighter pulleys. if you even have more money left after all of that, you could even upgrade to a lighter and better clutch and pressure plate to remove any extra weight so your engine doesn't have to waste any more hp than it needs to until it gets down to your wheels....
-erik

That is what I had heard, but a magnet told me different. Mine is a thin wall steel tube drive shaft on a 94 R2

I'm having an aluminum shaft made for my 20b conversion. I should have pricing info in 2 weeks. I can probably have a few extras made in the stock length. I don't think the weight difference will be significant though. If anyone is interested shoot me a PM.

You removed 55 lbs in the exhaust alone? How much does the stock exhaust weigh?

My original driveshaft on my 93 R1 is steel.

stock precat 23 lbs - SS downpipe 8 lbs = ~15 lbs savings
stock cat 30 lbs - SS midpipe 8-10 lbs = 20+ lbs savings
stock catback 33 lbs - GReddy Ti 10 lbs (w/o SS bracket) = 20+ lbs savings

For a car that was picked over to reduce weight you wouldn't think 50-60 lbs could be removed from the exhaust but the stock exhaust is unbelievably heavy.