ATTN: 12secv6, weight reduction.

[MustangEater8251]

You probable are have this down to an art more then anyone else around here. List anything that comes to your mind, either for overall weight reduction or weight tranfer reduciton.

I plan on
-jack\spare(been out for nearly a month)
-front sway bar
-passenger and rear seats
-thing that covers cargo area
-all useless crap
-empty window washer fluid [img]smile.gif[/img]
-maybe Catback exhaust(I run open pipe after CAT)


I might take the carpet out, and some interior moldings, not just for the reduction, but DAMN my carpet is dirty, maybe I can clean it better with it out.

Thanks in advance [img]smile.gif[/img]

[12secondv6]

I've been researching it here and there.
Some are weight reduction and some are transfer and some are both
Weight reduction:
1) My jack and spare tire came out and a AAA plus card went in its place.
2) front sway bar, bolts and endlinks came off for 12 lbs
3) rear seats both came out plus the rear seat belts
4) front passenger seat has come out before 36 lbs?
5) thing that covers the trunk, gone, 1-2 lbs?
6)empty washer fluid resevoir, hey I do it :D
7) light weight a arms, 7.5 lbs each
8) light weight k member, 18 lbs
9) manual steering unit, 10.5 lbs
10) fiberglass hood (I'm told amost 30 lbs)
11) front bumper supports (I'm told 30-40 lbs?)
12) rear bumper supports (I'm told 20-30 lbs?)
13) weld drag lites for the front (15 x 3.5 rims with 175 80 tires weighing in at 26 lbs each)
14) 1 piece driveshaft (maybe 5 lbs?)
15) 2 seperate vibration dampening devices, one on torque arm (doughnut shaped) and one on the end of the tranny (just plain funky looking)
Weight transfer:
1) Both my amps and capictor are mounted in the trunk on the wall where you access the rear tail light assemblies.
2) No stb
3) 10 inch sub mounted in thunderform enclosure

I've done all of the above except for the hood and bumper supports.
I've got a weight reduction list from ls1.com
Let me find itThis is from the legend the colonel from ls1.com
Let's go on a diet...
(BTW, I have done nowhere near all of these ideas myself.)

Feel free to make suggestions and to add guesstimations or factual info as to how much weight any of the ideas remove. I'll add that info to the list.

Weight removal list!
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First step....
Buy a lightweight optioned car

Free stuff....
....!ABS
21.5!AC compressor
8.5.!AC condenser
....!AC fan motor
15..!Airbags & impact sensors
....!Air dam
1...!Air filter
5...!Amp, Monsoon
4...!Antenna, bracket, and motor if applicable
....!Ashtray & lighter
....!Blinker switch
2...!Bolt lengths, extra
....!Brake pedal pad
23..!Bumper, front reinforcement and brackets
31..!Bumper, rear reinforcement and brackets
40..!Carpet & Sound deadening
50..!Catback
....!Cats
9...!Center console
....!Coating, under carpet
4...!Crossmember brace
....!Cruise control
....!Dash
....!Door panels
11..!EGR, air pump, & harware
....!Emblems
....!Fan, 1
....!Fan shroud
5...!Floormats
3...!Foglights and brackets
....FRA mod
....!Gas, Extra
2.5.!Glovebox
4...!Hatch cover
....!Hatch shocks
....!Headlights
....!Headliner
....!Head unit
....!Head unit/AC console trim piece
....!Hood shocks
1...!Horn
3...!Inner fenderwells, plastic
....!Liscense plate brackets
....!Liscense plate(s)
....!Misc. junk in the car like keys, garage remote, change, owner's manual, etc.
4...!Panels, under steering wheel
....!Parking brake
....!Power brake booster
....!Parking brake handle
....!Power seat motor
....!Power steering pulley and idler pulley
....!Power steering pump
....!Power window motors
1...!Rear view mirror
2...!Seatbelts
34..!Seat, passenger's
19..!Seats, rear
3...!Sheetmetal, extra double walled
....!Shifter knob
5...!Side impact bars
35..!Spare tire and jack
7...!Speaker panels, hatch
5...!Speaker panels, rear passenger's
15..!Speakers
35..!Spoiler (Weight measured on a Pontiac)
....!Spring isolators
2...!Sun visors
14..!Swaybar and brackets, front
....!Taillight(s)
2...!T-Top holders
....!Under car tow points
1...!Washer fluid pump
9...!Windshield washer fluid
2...!Windshield wiper reservoir
3...!Wiper arms
3...!Wiper motor
....!Wiring, Excess


Wallet mods....
....Airlid, aftermarket
....Aluminum LCAs
8...Carbon fiber driveshaft
11..Chromoly A-arms
30..Chromoly K-member
....Draglite wheels
....Drag slicks or street slicks
....Drilled axles
20..Dry cell battery in right rear
18..Electric water pump
....Fiberglass door skins
30..Fiberglass hood
....Fuel cell
....Headers
....Lexan glass
....Lightweight clothing
30..Lightweight brakes
10..Lightweight flywheel
....Lightweight springs and shocks
....Lightweight steering column
....Lightweight steering wheel
....Manual rack and pinion steering
....Plastic fuel tank, late model
....Powerglide, TH350, or M4 transmission
....Racing seat
....Shortbelt mod
....Skinny front tires
....Spool
20..TQ converter, small
....Underdrive pulleys

Is that ok? :D

[ February 25, 2002: Message edited by: 12secondv6 ]</p>

[camaro_zach]

good god, haha. does anyone make lightweight windows for our cars? i know that the z06 has a lighter window than the normal vette...just an idea, im sure it be a good 20-30 lbs....

[12secondv6]

In the most recent summit magazine there was a section on lighter glass, or substitutes for it
VERY expensive!!!!
It is n the new products section