Adventures in weight reduction
03-06-2005, 04:25 PM
#1
Adventures in weight reduction
Pics sort of speak for themselves. Obviously, there's lots left to do. But I still feel we made good progress. This is clearly the highest riding car around sitting on Sprint springs...
03-06-2005, 04:40 PM
#7
My car looked just like that when I was changing interior's to black leather. Now tommorow I'm going to gut just the front out once again for more amazing weight reduction ideas I just thaught about just by looking at your pictures THANKS 
03-06-2005, 04:53 PM
#10
Originally Posted by Ûñç£è §Þ®ïñ†ý
are they going to allow you at the track with that? that thing doesn't look too safe
Slicks are already here, but not installed.
03-06-2005, 04:57 PM
#12
03-06-2005, 07:41 PM
#17
This is very disheartening. I was hoping to be able to remove the heater core without pulling the dash.
Whats the HVAC still doing in there? Why did you guys open up that wiring harness? You snipping the unused ones? What are the wipers still doing on there?
Whats the HVAC still doing in there? Why did you guys open up that wiring harness? You snipping the unused ones? What are the wipers still doing on there?
03-07-2005, 05:00 AM
#21
Glad the two jabronis missed the part where I said "Obviously there's lots left to do"
And we need to recover the refrigerant and drain the cooling system before we can get the AC evaporator and the heater core out...
And we need to recover the refrigerant and drain the cooling system before we can get the AC evaporator and the heater core out...
03-07-2005, 05:21 AM
#22
the fun part for me would be disassembling it, my fear would be "uh, why do we have so many parts left?" lol, have fun and good luck on your times. But most of all, good luck putting that back together, sure hope you don't lose anything between now and then.
03-07-2005, 05:27 AM
#23
Originally Posted by BRINKLEY
But most of all, good luck putting that back together, sure hope you don't lose anything between now and then.
03-08-2005, 09:25 AM
#24
Yeah we still have a bunch of work ahead of us, and no neither of us have alot of time on our hands, or this would have been done. The car has been sitting at Bens house for saveral months, and this is the first time we have touched it.
In the near future plans are:
1. Removing everything HVAC related.
2. gutting doors completely. Cutting out all un-needed sheet metal, and crash beams.
3. cutting out parts of the rear deck.
4. removing the front and rear crash beams.
5. installing a 5 gallon fuel cell and removing the OEM tank.
6. tossing the OEM exhaust and installing a straight 2.75" stainless pipe dumping into the rear axle compartment.
In the near future plans are:
1. Removing everything HVAC related.
2. gutting doors completely. Cutting out all un-needed sheet metal, and crash beams.
3. cutting out parts of the rear deck.
4. removing the front and rear crash beams.
5. installing a 5 gallon fuel cell and removing the OEM tank.
6. tossing the OEM exhaust and installing a straight 2.75" stainless pipe dumping into the rear axle compartment.
03-08-2005, 04:10 PM
#28
Originally Posted by TheMax95
So how much does it weigh now that you completely ripped it apart?
-Paul
-Paul
We're also going to cut off all the little mounting brackets and studs for the equipment we've removed.
03-08-2005, 09:10 PM
#30
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you guys should remove all the glass...im sure that weighs a good amount. thats if you havent planned to allready. lol...good luck getting that to a track unless you take it on a trailer. i can just see a cop glance inside that thing.
03-08-2005, 09:26 PM
#31
if you guys want light, just take off the entire door assemblies. strip it down completely to the bare rolling chassis. im guessing you guys are going to trailer the car to the track right?
03-08-2005, 09:47 PM
#33
Originally Posted by fanaticrockford
I could see this car weighing in the low 2000 pound range and running high 13's.
03-08-2005, 10:09 PM
#34
Originally Posted by krismax
im sorry but if that car gets in the low 2000 range and runs high 13's ill have a heart attack
03-08-2005, 10:14 PM
#35
If neal could pull off a 13.4 all motor on a car no where as near stripped to this.. I'm sure this car can get very very low 13's if not high 12's easily. But then again there are very few drivers that can pull that off... or neals car was a factory freak 
03-08-2005, 10:16 PM
#36
Originally Posted by fanaticrockford
This car isn't going to be daily driven so why couldn't it weigh in the low 2000 pound range. It's probably not going to stay completly stock motor wise.
without slicks
03-08-2005, 10:38 PM
#39
Originally Posted by krismax
you misunderstood me im saying it better run much faster than that my car was 2745lbs without driver and did a 13.8
without slicks
without slicks