What type of weight reduction have you done??
 

There are plenty of weight reduction threads but I want to know what each member has done in the form of weight reduction to his/her car.

Also I want to know what you plan to do.
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Since I got a SG2 now all I have to do is drive a couple of tanks with it to get it calibrated and don't have to run a full tank anymore. This should save me about 30 lbs+. Next I plan to take out my spare, jack and tools. Which is another 30 lbs. Then I plan to take out my stereo, which should be at least 20lbs.(Speakers too)

So that is 80lbs right there. Since the car weighs 2359lbs this will put me at about 2279lbs. I drive a lot on the streets so this is beneficial to me.

I had a salad for lunch yesterday......

Seriously, there's not much I can do to my F350 diesel. Smaller tires and aluminum rims perhaps.

Does rust count?

NO , the affects of nature dont count ..

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Lessee...
-Wash it
-Drive around w/ only half a tank
-Loose weight (a you say)
-Stop throwing yer 'empties' in the bed
-Get a thinner spouse/gf/bf

jes kiddin' :D

Nice... :thumbup: :D

What is your yard art? The windows are wrong for split VW, and while they look like Tatra T600, there is no fin?

Most should just clean the extra junk out of the car, otherwise, unless you want to be bare bones, interior stuff.

I removed 100 lb of tools and other junk from my trunk...now I just carry a 25 lb toolbox in the car with me.

So it's safe to say you don't have junk in your trunk?

As for me I don't take weight reduction very seriously, unless I can remove a few hundred pounds.

I will NOT remove the jack and spare, because in my mind it's silly to remove a backup plan just to save 25lbs.

If I were driving the 1/4 mile at the track I'd remove everything I could...

In my Odyssey I've removed the middle row of seats, and plan to remove the rear row as soon as I have somewhere to put it.

My Civic I gutted:
-removed spare tire
-removed plastic from the trunk
-cut non-supporttive metals from trunk area
-removed tar from trunk, rear and front
-removed all audio (radio, front/rear speakers, antenna)
-removed rear seat and all rear plastic trim peices
-removed all carpet (from, back and trunk)
-removed all HVAC and ducting from under the dash
-cut non-supporttive metals from the front interior
-replaced rear quarter windows with lexan
-removed front windows
-removed door panels.
-removed a/c
-replaced power steering system with manual rack
-removed rear engine mount
-replaced exhaust with no cat/resonator/muffler
-removed all wiring no longer in use (dome light, hvac, audio)

I think thats it :D

Edit: Oh ya, the windshield washer fluid reservoir, hoses and nozzles :)

I'd like to remove the engine. It looks very heavy. I bet I could save a ton of gas that way. :)

Yeah, very few people realize that if you remove the engine that the car no longer needs gas. It's a conspiracy I tell ya!

No, I still do have junk in my trunk, it's just of the light and fluffy kind (a pair of coveralls for roadside emergencies). :D

Yeah , true , but I heard that performance drops off a bit after that mod.

When I droped the wife off at her place of work the car got spunky. :)

Now if I could get rid of the tools in the trunk.

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I removed the rear seats, brackets, seat belts. All the rear interior panels, scraped off the asphalt like soundproofing, removed the sound deadening pad from under the carpet. took the soundproofing off the firewall.

I put the front seats back in the car though, The soundproofing was 45lbs rear seat and interior panels were around 70lbs. I covered the bare metal with thin carpet using spray adhesive. It doesn't look that bad but makes the car drive way better.

All The interior parts in my trunk are gone except Spare tire and jack.

I am not going to list all the crap but I have taken out 50-100 pounds of stuff.

Weight reduction isn't a good idea. It makes you car noisy.

Damn, good thing she doesn't read this...that's a "thin-ice" statement if I've ever heard one! :)

If you don't mind the noise. Here is a list of the weight of just about anything non critical to a saturn (I have posted this link before but I am sure some of you haven't seen it).

https://www.evilplastic.com/p92-wgt1.htm

- I have to admit I took the spare, jack & tools out (-28 lbs). I put them back in for highway trips. But local driving, meh.

- Now that the SG is dialed in, I was going to stop filling the tank up (actually, since I fill up so infrequently, I was going to syphon out what's remaining, down to about 1/4 tank) (-36 lbs). But I haven't done this yet because it's been raining for about a week.

- And I've been toying with the idea of taking out the passenger seat (-29 lbs)

Which would mean a grand total of... -93 lbs (Edit: = -5.1% of total vehicle weight)

Coyote: you're a crazy man. Is the 45 lbs of sound deadening you're talking about just the stuff on the floor under the carpet?! Front and rear?

Also, in my car anway, you'd be further off leaving the rear seat in (6 lbs cushion, 16 lbs backrest = 22 lbs) than the front seat @ 29. :) Plus gain an extra seat - important if you're concerned about your "PPW-s" rating (passengers per weight of seating).

i bought the car with manual mirrors, manual windows, manual locks, and manual steering. then:

-i took out the entire airconditioning system(i.e. condensor, radiator, pump, and all plumbing)(40lbs???)
-no spare(20lbs)/jack(5lbs)/basic ratchet set(11lbs) for local driving
-front bumper support(7ishlbs)
-driver side front tow hook(1-2lbs)
-lawn mower battery (12 lbs) in leu of stock (35lbs)
-antenna block(1lb)
-hx rims(12lbs) with falken ziex tires(17lbs)
-apexi ws2 exhuast (the muffler is like 5lbs less than stock)
-keeping the interior clean is worth its weight in gold
-aftermarket junk aluminum hood is 8-10lbs lighter than hondas stock hood.
-no interior hatch cover(i never knew how much it weighed...)
-aftermarket header(12lbs less)
-aftermarket intake(5lbs less)
-center rear seat belt(1.5lbs)
-floor mats(5lbs)

unfortunately a good portion of this weight reduction is negated by the addition of front and rear swaybars(7-10lbs each) and foglights(3-4lbs each). also even with the full interior i think the car is too loud from road noise, so i put insulation behind the rear interior panels and behind the door panels

jolt: why did you take out the rear torque mount??? you dont like traction??

The back seat doesn't weigh much the seat belts and seat belt hardware is where most of that is from. I know the passenger seat and it's belt is heavier but sometimes you have to keep things for reasons other than efficency. Also I planned on putting fiberglass bucket seats and a 5 point harness in the front, more stuff left over from old project cars I can re-use.

There is a lot of that asphalt type soundproofing stuff in the car. I would recommend that if you have the seats out for any reason go ahead and pull the carpet out and scrape it off. I found huge amounts of rust under it where it trapped water against the metal. There was enough rust that I am just about ready to abandon fixing up this car and trying to swap the drivetrain into something else because the unibody is almost rusted in two on the drivers side. I would say get that junk off the metal as soon as you can to keep it from rusting out the floor. A hammer and flat screwdriver gets it off pretty fast. It might take 2 hours total to get every bit of it off the floor. Then a few quick coats of rust inhibitor on the metal. While it is drying you can scrape off the soundproofing from the carpet with a 3 inch medium putty knife or something similar. I also hung up the carpet and pressure washed it to make it look like new again but that step is optional.

But anyway as far as the weight it makes a huge difference on hills. I got reminded of how much better it is when I had a friend in the car with me going somewhere on a hill I normally drive my commute on and I had to downshift going up the hill when I can normally pull 5th all the way up. I figure the easier acceleration and better handling from doing weight reduction is worth it even if it doesn't help mileage much. Taking the seats and carpet out of a metro is like a 30 minute job so there is really nothing hard doing weight reduction on them.

The car is light enough that one person can pick up a front tire off the ground and I can lift the entire back end off the ground. I figure I will pick up 4 bathroom scales and weigh the car sometime. With the car this light it is very easy to parallel park though, just drive the front end in and get out and push the back sideways into place. You can park it in otherwise unusable spots and also get it back out pretty easy.

the truth about weight reduction is this:

there are about 3-4 things that take out 30-40lbs and 100 things that take out 1-2lbs.

so if you take out your spare and jack, gut the rear seats and take out the airconditioning you are almost halfway through.

I had a brain fart when I typed that. It was the intake manifold mount, not engine mount. All my motor mounts have been made solid polyurethane :p

I took out the jack, spare and tools, then replaced it with a can of Insta-flate tire sealer/inflater. A towing clause in my insurance takes care of the back up plan.

I also removed
rear seats
rear seatbelts
plastic body work and rugs inside the rear hatch
heat shields in the center tunnel and near the muffler (also aids aerodynamics)
smaller battery
lighter wheels from an Eagle Talon
rear wiper arm and motor during summer
engine balance shafts- also reduces parasitic losses and raises oil pressure, so lighter weight oil can be used.
There might be some other little things I'm forgetting.
Then I added about 15 pounds with a front mount intercooler and 2.5" piping. :) It more than pulls it's own weight

aaahhh ok yea i have done the same things. i forget about half of the small weight reduction things ive done.... i edited that post like 4 times.

the rattle from the stiffer mounts gets annoying but thats just because its my daily driver.