I just lost some weight (166lbs)
 

Weight reduction is always a favorite topic of mine. I removed and weighed a lot of crap in my car. My inspiration for this can be seen here (might come in handy for the Saturn folks):

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

Hears what I took out (in lbs.):

Front passenger seat- 39
Rear seat-38
Hub caps-4
sub woofer wiring- 2
Door weather striping- 4
Spare tire/ jack - 28
Trunk flooring/ false floor- 6
passenger mirror- 3
Air intake bits- 2
Subwoofer +amp- 40

Total= 166lbs
Total of stock parts= 124lbs

Just curious, did you need the door striping to keep water out? Or was it extra to keep sound level down?

It seems like a ton of weight, wow.

heh..you should just get a 1200lb car like me. No need for weight reduction :P

I am pretty sure that all it does is cover up the sharp metal at the cars edge. I didn't remove the real stuff attached to the doors.

I don't think I will be driving like this for too long, but it might be fun for a few weeks.

Got it....still that is an impressive amount of weight for little work and minimal inconvenience.

I might have to look into this a bit!!!

kickflipjr -

I almost never use the back seats except for piles of crap. I should get rid of them and extend my homemade wagon trunk cover to hide an empty backseat area.

I have also wanted to make the front passenger seat easy-removeable. My idea was to get a headless screw in place of the 4 screws that are there :

https://www.mutualscrew.com/subcatego...it=20&pid=3388
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Then I would get wingnuts to fasten the seat down. The screw and wingnut would need equal or greater tensile(?) strength in comparison to the OEM screws they are replacing (obviously for crash safety). The fly in the ointment from my POV is that the way the seating bolts are arranged, it may not be possible to mount the seat onto screws that are "sticking out" of the floorboards.

My other idea was that maybe I could mount the OEM passenger seat onto an aftermarket seat rack that I mount to the floor on the hunch that the aftermarket seat would me more "flexible" to what I had in mind.

CarloSW2

166 pounds! That's more weight than me. Looks like you're getting ready for the FE Team Challenge. Good stuff :thumbup:.

I just drove to school. The car had improved acceleration and braking. There was much more interior noise.

Now that I have no seats my bike should be able to fit in the car with no problem.

thats awsome i wish i could do that but i need all of my seats because thats how i get gas money.

Any interior pictures?

dont forget the seat belts and bumper supports. the rear belts and both supports are good for 35lbs

I am not taking off the bumper supports. Without them a small wreck would destroy the car.

2.5mph any more than that and your frame will get dinged anyway. if the accident is at 5mph then the rest of the car is still going to get hurt.

now step back and think. how much distance does it take to go from 5mph to 0mph?

i took mine out, got into an accident going less than 30mph and have no regrets.

i do recommend that you keep the support bar in your doors in place and your airbags functional.

Nice. I've been thinking about stripping the green machine, but it seems like every time I go to a protest, I end up giving four or five anarchists rides home.

They never get used otherwise.

There are companies that manufacture lightweight seats and trim pieces. Most of the interior pieces in cars have unessessary filler material that adds a huge amount of dead weight. It's not uncommon for tuners to remove 300 lbs or more from their interior by switching to lighter seats and other stuff.

One particularly egregious offender is the interior of the Ford Crown Victoria. A while back, two cops got into a car accident, and the dashboard fell and crushed both their legs.

Yeah, your seats are heavy. Mine are only like 18 pounds. Do you have sound proofing to scrape out? Might be worth 20-30 pounds?

Yeah the seats are defiantly heaver then on my Saturn. I saw some tar and went to scape it but it just chipped off in tiny pieces so I am not going to mess with it.

I found about $1 worth of change under the seats :)

REAL anarchists don't mind sitting on sheet metal. :-)

Lol. I'm more worried about their bikes hitting them in the back if the trucker I'm drafting decides to slam on his brakes.

I'm taking a more personal approach by removing 8lbs of spare tire off of ME in the last two weeks. I'm gunning to drop another 30 by mid-summer.

Depending on the car, a person could often save as much as 20 lbs per seat (or more) by going to racing buckets. The cheapest ones from RCI weigh less than 8 lbs. each, but they're not really race legal in many competitions (if one cares) as they are made out of molded plastic. A more robust and comfortable tube frame seat can be had for about $200 each and usually weigh in the mid-teens (vs. upper twenties to upper thirties for most stock seats).

And as far as tar removal is concerned, it's best to take advantage of cold weather. Often some light impacts with a mallet are enough to shatter chunks of it off with relatively little effort. Otherwise you'll need to scrape, which is a messy affair at good scraping temperature.

I removed 10 more pounds today. glove box door/ the rear center seatbelt/ Header heat shield/ other small bits.

I could remove more it I took out my AC and PS stuff, but that that is more labor involved.

The stock seats from my GT6 weigh 30 lbs each. This would be a huge weight reduction for just switching out 2 seats, especially considering the car is about 1,780 lbs.