Quick weight reduction?

[bmitchell373]

Id like to shave a little weight off the car. I know you can take off the weights on the rear axle, gut the trunk, back seat. But is there anything else that can come out that's worth while? I will leave pass seat and carpet in, and dont want to take door panels off etc.

Parts will come in time.

 

[alex12gt]

Pull mufflers and do muffler deletes

 

[Jedisalami]

get yourself down to 95 lbs

 

[alex12gt]

Really to scrap weight you are going to have to strip stuff down

 

[Tx5.0]

Can't beat that gym time!

 

[bmitchell373]

I'm getting after it! (down 15 in 3 weeks). I don't want to get crazy but save a little. I will be getting nice wheels with me tax return. Some day a one piece DS. Working on exhaust this week. Tubular suspension is down the road.

 

[corruptor]

Strut tower brace, windshield wiper fluid drain, air intake resonator pipe delete.

 

[FoofKiller]

Lightweight wheels. No OEM or cast garbage.

 

[bmitchell373]

Lightweight wheels. No OEM or cast garbage.

Forgestar F14s

 

[92hatchlx]

The basic suspension stuff can really drop some weight. Going to the steeda ultra-lite springs and steeda pan hard bar dropped 15-20 lbs. Plus it will give it a better stance. Aftermarket control arms will also drop a few lbs. All of these things will give you a double benefit of dropping weight and vastly improving handling, even on the Brembo cars.

If I didn't have a budget I would definitely be swapping out for a tubular k-member and front control arms also. CF hood would shave a few pounds off the front, but those aren't quick weight reducing mods.

 

[bmitchell373]

The basic suspension stuff can really drop some weight. Going to the steeda ultra-lite springs and steeda pan hard bar dropped 15-20 lbs. Plus it will give it a better stance. Aftermarket control arms will also drop a few lbs. All of these things will give you a double benefit of dropping weight and vastly improving handling, even on the Brembo cars.

If I didn't have a budget I would definitely be swapping out for a tubular k-member and front control arms also. CF hood would shave a few pounds off the front, but those aren't quick weight reducing mods.

I plan to do all the rear set up, fix wheel hop, give me adjustableness. Want to do springs/struts next year. K member can wait till motor comes out for build long long far away!

 

[Squamishcoyote]

Rotating wieght... Driveshaft, wheels, clutch/flywheel, rotors

 

[BUCKET]

Washer bottle full of fluid on my '13 weighed 8lbs

Steeda lower rad support 10lbs

Vossen 20x9 fronts lost me 4lbs each corner over stock boss 19s

I gained 1lb each corner in rear going to a 20x10.5

All stock exhaust weighed a ton. Running full stainless works now. I didn't get to weigh all that out. But easy 40lbs

DS should be around 20lbs. So that's on the list.

 

[bmitchell373]

Seems like parts is where it is. Not much to just pull in the car. I did a little looking, the shaftmaster is the preferred DS correct?

 

[Dave_6]

The basic suspension stuff can really drop some weight. Going to the steeda ultra-lite springs and steeda pan hard bar dropped 15-20 lbs. Plus it will give it a better stance. Aftermarket control arms will also drop a few lbs. All of these things will give you a double benefit of dropping weight and vastly improving handling, even on the Brembo cars.

If I didn't have a budget I would definitely be swapping out for a tubular k-member and front control arms also. CF hood would shave a few pounds off the front, but those aren't quick weight reducing mods.

I couldn't believe how light the Steeda PHB is when I first took it out of the box. Same with their springs. I need to get some of their billet LCAs and the lower radiator support.

 

[dirtyd88]

I couldn't believe how light the Steeda PHB is when I first took it out of the box. Same with their springs. I need to get some of their billet LCAs and the lower radiator support.

2.5 lb aluminum PHB FTW.

 

[BUCKET]

All the covering and tire cover in there is worth some weight. Forget how much the pump and stuff was. 5lbs?

 

[Jedisalami]

Bigs and Littles the rest besides a ds is way overpriced for the weight savings

 

[Fun4me]

DS and Wheels. Tires can save 3-4 lbs per tire, between differant models of the same size.

Your never going to lose more than 10% of the cars weight, but its SO easy to gain 40+ hp with boltons and tune.

 

[Ivan 5.0]

A few I did: start with a base model, full exhaust with no cats, rlca's, PH bar, CAI, aluminum driveshaft, boss intake, new stb, sound tube delete, radiator support, springs, dampers, new grill (fog light delete), 18 x 9.5 rotary forged wheels, drain windshield fluid, remove trunk crap.

Light weight sway bars (Strano) will be my next mod.