Has anyone taking weight saving this far?

 

 

I was speaking to the guy that owns this and he'd taken out over 400kg, it was running a PD150 at 190bhp so needless to say it was VERY quick without all that extra weight. I don't know if I could deal without heating in the winter either! In my opinion it's too much to sacrifice to go faster.

There's being sensible and f***ing stupid, that's stupid. Unless it's a track day of course which I don't think it is going off your post.

I'll keep my interior, comfort and heating and be slightly slower thanks! lol

 

Phil

It's his daily driver too, road noise must be unbearable with no sound proofing. No rear seats, no carpet, no door cards, battery was relocated to behind the passenger seat. It had no grip and spun the wheels in 3rd. It's good fun until it rains and water comes through the sliding hatch on the drivers side perspex window. 

 

I'm still not sure if it's balls or stupidity.

Sounds like hell! lol

 

I prefer my comfort. Even when I was younger I never had the urge to modify anything major on a car... certainly nothing that took any comfort etc away.

 

Guess we all have different tastes etc.

 

I just think he's mad! lol

 

Phil

I was speaking to the guy that owns this and he'd taken out over 400kg, it was running a PD150 at 190bhp so needless to say it was VERY quick without all that extra weight. I don't know if I could deal without heating in the winter either! In my opinion it's too much to sacrifice to go faster.

 

400kg is rather a lot on a 1300kg car.

All the seats only come to around 60-70kg and you need to fit something back in...

Air-con and heating would remove maybe another 50-60kg tops.  So still over 200kg to find.

 

Do you know what else he has removed?

400kg is rather a lot on a 1300kg car.

All the seats only come to around 60-70kg and you need to fit something back in...

Air-con and heating would remove maybe another 50-60kg tops. So still over 200kg to find.

Do you know what else he has removed?

most of the dashboard and the door cards by the looks of it, guessing sound deadning as that weighs a bit too

I've taken the rear seats out and put some light wheels on but I don't think I'd go that far, maybe the Air conditioninig unit but that would be it

Messed that post up ! Lol

I've got a set of lexan windows for a Fabia mk1 in the office....   I wonder how much that saves.

I can't see a steering wheel. That weighs a couple of Kilos. Does he use Mole grips?

Heard he's on the 5:2 diet as well

I ran my old saxo stripped out when i was 18, and preffered it. It had group N supersprint system on it (about 98db iirc) and with the full interior droned so badly, i only stripped the rear out though, had carpets and door cards in the front. I used to notice a differance, it felt quicker and the back end would be about 15mm raised lol.

 

This seems abit OTT on a daily diesel, but sure its all good fun!

Running around with only enough fuel to only get you to where you want to go and then to nearest fuel station would save a fair bit

Do you know what else he has removed?

 

From what I could see, there was not a lot left in it, but as said above it all adds up. There was absolutely nothing in the back except bare metal, racing seats in the front and the seat harnesses were bolted to the floor above the fuel tank.

 

He had superturismos with coilovers, a lighter battery, all the electrics in the doors must weigh a bit too. I didn't disbelieve he had taken out 400kg, just by the state of it. He loved it, recommended I should follow suit... Imagine going to work in the middle of winter with no heating, you'd be deaf along with having frost bite but at least you'd be at work in 5 minutes.

if he had kept the heating then id say ok, but without it too far.

 

couldn't cope without heating lol

I remember reading about a lupo that had been stripped out like that literally to bare metal and a few wires left, it had the absolute raw minimum needed to make it road legal with aluminium doors from a gti model and a few fibreglass panels and Perspex that had something like 350kg shaved off the kerb weight, it was so light that he could lift the back wheels off the floor when braking very hard. The level he had gone to to reduce the weight was rediculous, he'd even remove the reverse light bulbs.

Why has he still got the pedal covers on?

 

As a track day car it would be fine and great fun to drive, as a daily, not for me.

Why has he still got the pedal covers on?

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would fail the mot without pedal rubbers fitted.

Doesn't have to be rubber.  A coarse pad stuck on (like the willwood pedal boxes) would work.

Does he drive it just in his undies

Wonder if he has took fuses out for windows. Heaters amd heated seats . Thats another 10grams

Why hasn't he drilled holes through all the plastic parts, that would shave even more lol

 

Crackpot

I wouldn’t say it’s stupid but for a daily driver it’s definitely a bit much!

 

For a weekend toy or track car it’s a good idea to get the most out of the money you’ve put in elsewhere. Stripping weight is free and improves the power/weight ratio which dictates how well the car accelerates to an extent. Even having a 70kg passenger can make a difference! So a loss of 400kg (if he has lost that much, seems a lot!) must make a very noticeable difference.

 

Why do you think the Lotus Elise and similar cars are so fast despite not really being that powerful? All in the weight... or lack of lol.

I had a fiesta that was similar to that..

Safe to say it got old, quick!

If that's had 400kg removed, I'm a chinaman!