1987 Mr2.

[ebouwman]

Originally Posted by 328FTW

Yes and no, there are discussions about it but it all depends on how extreme you want to get. For the street generally it involves making a lighter exhaust system, moving the battery and maybe removing your ac. You can take out some of the heavy noise deadening and replace it with lighter stuff and light carpet as well. At the extreme end is fiberglass lift off panels and interior removal plus replacing the cast brackets with alloy ones. Even further is a spaceframe but that is getting very serious then.

My racecar has all the support ribbing cut off the panels so they flex and flap a bit and removed all the stick on noise deadener with dry ice (old trick to make it break easy). And even has the shift cables all exposed. I keep getting told that it would only be a few pounds for all that but I have the road car to look pretty, 328 is all business.

Well ya, but thing is is there is so much of that plastic paneling you could strip off the interior, so it is only a few pound, but i can see why you'd do it. Did you completely take out all the carpets in it? If i were making a car for racing i would go nuts ripping s*** out

I personally don't have a/c or power locks/windows, so that saves some weight for me, plus on a 20+ year old car you really don't need that crap.

[328FTW]

Originally Posted by ebouwman

Well ya, but thing is is there is so much of that plastic paneling you could strip off the interior, so it is only a few pound, but i can see why you'd do it. Did you completely take out all the carpets in it? If i were making a car for racing i would go nuts ripping s*** out

I personally don't have a/c or power locks/windows, so that saves some weight for me, plus on a 20+ year old car you really don't need that crap.

The carpets were one of the first things to go, there is nothing left in my racecar....nothing. I removed all the headlight assemblies and stuff because it does daytime racing and even traced the wiring back and removed it all. The dash is completely removed and all that is left is the gauges. I even cut the bracket that holds the jack out of the car. It is a tin can with a 1600 in it. It outcorners basically everything at our club even with normal road tyres on it. I have but one advantage over the more powerful cars and that is cornering so I try to press it as much as I can so I can rub i in Mr Subarus face

[ebouwman]

Did you slice off all those little brackets that are for holding on pannels? Specifically i'm thinking of on the tunnel that has the shifter, all those brackets could add up.

I can only imagine how much you could take off, and how many brackets you could lighten.

[328FTW]

Can't remember specifically if I did but I think so, I spent a weekend taking off things what people had deemed silly to take off. By the end of the weekend I had a big box of wire and brackets that did nothing and it weighed a few pounds. The few luxuries I keep are some of the plastic trim around the outside since that is what you see as it roars past and the toyota banner across the back plus the spoiler (sorry about the threadjack op)