im gonna remove my front and rear seats and spare and jack and trunk mats. how much weight do you think this will save and can you think of any thing else to remove or do before hand?

thats passenger front seat for those of you that didn't know better.

 

what, no tips or advice from you seasoned racers.

 

Hey, go and have fun, the 1/8 is as much of more fun than the 1/4. I just tried out the 1/8 a couple of months ago for the first time.

The seats will save you approx 100+ lbs, the rear is around 50 the front pass depends on which one you have.

The rest of the junk in the trunk is 50+ lbs if you include the floor mats.

Also it matters if you are auto or man. Ok I see you have a 6 spd. Pretty difficult getting off the line with street tires, lots of wheel hop from the 6 spds I have observed. The best solution is slicks but there are others. I race auto so different ball game.

Also if you haven't been to the track before make sure you go and watch the starter and how they line up etc you don't want to be the laughing stock of the day.

 

Jime do you remove pass and rear seats sometimes?

 

alright times were actually worse than wed. my trap speed went up 3mph though. how is that possible. i didn't even get a single 9.5 i did get a 9.6 and a couple 9.7. i went up against a new se-r altima tonight. there pretty quick. he actually beat me but only because of his reaction time. everything else i had he was also an auto. every one at the track was complaining about the condition of it tonight. people were saying there times were as much as .5 off. my highest trap for the night wa a 77.96, best r/t for the night was a .765, best 60' was 2.440, well that about does it. except for this guy in a modded acura integra gsr wanted to run also. so i let him. i even let him stage his rear wheels to my front. yea he got smoked. by the end of 2nd i had a good car length on him. i know he had intake, exhaust and wheels, and the exhaust was header back.so that is pretty much it for tonight. flame away.

 

i have never hit the 1/8th but there is a race coming up later this year, so we will see how the chariot is still holding up. 1/8th is actually would give the 4th gen max an better advantage. usually after the 1/8th is where i lost races, so this sounds like fun. get out and make the day of it, and win a few while your at it