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Originally Posted by boycelaforest
Weight savings is pretty pointless with mk1... Like everyone said, ditch A/C, no more cheeseburgers and maybe swap in a lighter engine w/more hp. 20v, 2zz-ge, etc?
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Weight savings is never pointless. It improves every aspect of performance, without compromising reliability. Granted, some of the suggestions presented so far have been a bit silly... but there are tons of little things you can do, depending on how streetable you need the car to be, how much money you're willing to spend, and how hardcore you plan to go.
In my mki, I need it to be usable as a daily-driver, but I still made some effort: I have no A/C, a BT 20v, lightweight flywheel, super-light exhaust (the whole thing weighs like 5lbs), light wheels, no trunk/frunk garbage, removed jack/spare, lighter steering wheel, removed a couple useless bits from the interior like the center console storage box, and I'm also ripping out the security system. I'll try to get a weight on it as soon as I have it up and running, but I'm hoping for somewhere around 2100lbs, 2200 tops.