Just wondering what would be reasonable to remove to get rid of some weight. Nothing too much since it's a DD, but I don't haul more than 1 person around at a time and I don't carry alot of stuff, so this is what I came up with...

- Rear seats
- Rear seat splits
- Trunk carpet
- Spare tire
- Clean car - nothing extra in the car that doesn't need to be

Any other suggestions? Any idea how much weight the car could lose from weight reduction?

 

Since no one will be sitting in the back seat, remove the rear door panels as well.

Might want to go ahead and remove all the floor mats, all four of them probably weigh more than the carpet in the trunk.

Removing the rear seat belts will probably save up a lot of weight too, I know they weigh a lot in the Mustangs.

 

are you doing this for performance or fuel economy?

rear seats are foam and leather - light
trunk carpet - light
spare tire - not worth it if you get a flat

 

Fill up only to half a tank.

 

and only 2 quarts of oil...oil is heavy

 

cut the engine in half and take out 3 spark plugs.

but in all seriousness, even if you manage to cut 500 lbs, there will be very minimal fuel economy gains. but if you insist, you've already listed everything that can be salvaged. you don't need a spare tire, just keep a can of "fix a flat" handy.

 

take a dump before driving?

 

if you dont care about sound, take out all the tar under the carpet and under the panels in the trunk. you can pull some tow hooks from the bumpers, you can find some brackets holding wiring in the engine bay that are unnecessary. take out stuff like the VIAS vacuum canister. if youre doing this for fuel economy, dont. if youre doing it for racing, and you dont care about sound levels, take out everything in the interior that you dont use, like the door panels, rear cup holders(back of the "bump"), seat belts and bars, child seat anchors, etc

 

best idea so far.

 

Each 100lb is around 1mpg, so 500lb = 5mpg
and dont forget to take the jack off the car!

 

 

Get rid of all your air-conditioning components.

 

Passenger seat
windows
hood
trunk

 

Lightweight rims.

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what about the body? take off the body and just leave the front seat. might suck to drive in the rain though

B

 

Call and rent a Towing company that way you wont have to drive your car... and stop eating fast food and you will see how fast the maxima can go....

 

why not start with rotational weight... lightened flywheel.. lightened crank pulley..lightened rotors.. lightened smaller diamater wheels...

 

carbon fiber hood/trunk

 

Hmm... I wonder how much weight HLSD adds to the Maxima?

 

http://forums.maxima.org/advanced-su...have-info.html

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I already ended the thread

 

Fix a flat is a bunch of BULL

 

This is for performance, not fuel economy, I don't care about that. Some of you had some great ideas, but I don't need to go to extremes like driving with a half tank and no washer fluid.

 

Definitely the first three should be cf hood, cf trunk, and the drivers + passengers seat..

 

Take out all of your sound proofs, glove box.

 

go naked jk had to say it lol. Remove washer fluid container remove ac compressor and all lines.

 

take out your muffler. your car doesn't need that crap to run lol

 

sawzall...turn your maxima into this one.. LOL good for at least a couple hundread

http://carphotos.cardomain.com/ride_...0166_large.jpg

g/l taking a corner though ha

 

Got the rear bench and seats out along with the trunk carpet and the spare tire. Don't really notice anything as far as faster, just louder haha

 

IMO I don't see why you're removing the rear seats on a four door car. Plus like sooner said, they're light.

Although you'll notice a big difference when you get lightweight rims.

 

The gas idea is anything but but exreme. Gas weighs around 6.5 pounds per gallon. Our tanks hold around 18.5 gallons. Half a tank weighs about 60 pounds. That's way more than the back seats, trunk carpet, spare and jack all put together.

When I go to the drag strip I never have more than 1/8th of a tank. That's well over 100 pounds saved. I also remove the jack, spare, floor mats and tools.

 

sell the car and get a 4 banger

 

Turning your DD into a go cart is ghetto. I can see doing it when you take it to the track...but why would you want it like that doing ordinary day to day stuff?

S

 

Cause I hardly ever take more than 1 person with me at a time.

It felt like I took more than 60 lbs out of the car, but I'm not sure. I never thought about the fuel thing that much. Thanks Derrick, you're always helpful.

:matt93se: I was asking for help and advice, not a dumbass. Thanks, you can leave now.

Sorry it's "ghetto", I just never did it before and I wanted to see how the difference in sound and feel was and the car doesn't really feel different, but it is a good bit louder inside.

 

How about do some actual power adding mods, or better yet, getting a sports car since that seems to be what you're after?

 

How about you don't open your mouth unless you know what you're talking about? I have pretty much every bolt on already.

 

I realize the truth hurts, but someone had to say it.
And yet you're still not happy. Which is why you should have bought something fast, not a family sedan...

Basically, you've got three options.

• Continue to sink money into your Maxima with real power adding mods like nitrous or boost to make it faster
  
• Get yourself a faster platform to start the process over with.
• Become satisfied with your Maxima the way it is

 

What truth was in what you said? None. I have plenty of power, I am just looking at other things to do now. What I choose to do with my car is my choice.

I bought it because I knew it was reliable. I never had intentions to mod it because I figured there was no support for it, glad I was wrong. I get that "family car" shlt all the time. But when it comes down to it, if someone wants to trash me, fine so be it. If they wanna run their modded Rabbit against me, I'm all for smashing them.

 

No offense man but you should get your skills up before worrying about doing more work to your car. With your mods you should have been cracking 13s, even on street tires. High 14s isnt even really close to what that car is capable of.

 

I never went to the strip before. It also takes a little more skill to drag with a stick. I'm pretty sure any idiot can line up and put his foot on the floor and hold it there til they pass the sign 1/4 mile down

I'm pretty sure you can't drive my car. Let's not start down this road...