DSM Weight Reduction [merged] diet weight loss strip light

[98TsiAWD]

I personally am looking to do some weight reduction while retaining the quiet/smooth ride, and still having a spare so I can go on the highway without getting flatbedded home.

heres some of my ideas, just normal of course.

CF hood
Ditch all of my stereo and just get upgraded 6x9, 5.25, and 3.5's hooked to the factory amp/deck.
CF Hatch<<<Anyone make one for us?
CF Spoiler<<Anyone make it?
Dimple Drilled/Slotted Rotors


What else is there? I dont wanna tear out all the sound deadening or the spare tire.

 

[dr1665]

Counting the seats I got rid of about 206 lbs.

Bingo. Someone get me a beer.

I figure if Shep could get his car down to 2650 and still call it streetable (it was at the time, I don't know what it weighs now) then I should be able to do the same.

Wow. AWD = teh heavy. The day I parked her on the scales and started yanking shit out, I managed to get her down to 2675lbs or so with 3/4 tanks of gas. My goal is 2600 with driver one day.

Weight reduction is a fun project imo. Before you can drive in anger, you must strip the interior in anger. . Looking good, chief.

 

[splattj]

The power seatbelt assembly weighs a good bit too. Time to yank that next. Keep up the pics. I want to see what a minimal interior looks like when you're done.

 

[SBstar]

Other stuff yanked, includes but not limited too: front bumper, full a/c system, interior pieces, Still left to go includes, drivers seat (replaced with lightweight racing seat), seatbelt assemblies (drivers replaced with racing harness), rear bumper, and whatever else I toss into the recycle bin. I won't be at it for a little while but I'll post pics when I can, if you want to see a bare minimal interior check out,
www.94tsiawd.com
That's a stripped interior, I'm not going quite that far, but I figure the more I can to improve the power to weight ratio the better

 

[iceman1110]

I'm trying to lose weight

That thing looks anorexic man. You need to feed her more often

 

[v8s_are_slow]

What do the stock seats weigh anyway? I've been wondering about that for awhile now. I'm doing some stuff myself. So far I have the a/c compressor and lines gone (and the crap in the plastic box behind the dash. Box is still there though), ABS stripped out, front bumper support, cruise control, and engine internals (such as a knife edged and balanced crank, rods, pistons, fidanza flywheel). Wanting to replace the rear bumper with a dejon tool one and replace the seats with lighter ones...however much they weigh. Oh, and a smim.

 

[SBstar]

What do the stock seats weigh anyway? I've been wondering about that for awhile now. I'm doing some stuff myself. So far I have the a/c compressor and lines gone (and the crap in the plastic box behind the dash. Box is still there though), ABS stripped out, front bumper support, cruise control, and engine internals (such as a knife edged and balanced crank, rods, pistons, fidanza flywheel). Wanting to replace the rear bumper with a dejon tool one and replace the seats with lighter ones...however much they weigh. Oh, and a smim.

http://web.archive.org/web/20041106...tonline.com/pso/pages/techtips/dsmweights.asp

Front seat weighs about 50 lbs. The rear seat weighs about 40, so thats a pretty good savings right there. Now if only I could afford a 20lb racing seat I could cut out another 30 lbs. Then get me a nice light battery because mine weighs a ton. The passenger side seatbelt brackets are going to come off soon. Maybe even tonight

 

[gamingguru]

Are you sure that that little flimsy foam back seat really weighs 40 pounds?

 

[SBstar]

The three piece full back seat weighs in at 40 lbs. According to them, I didn't actually weight the back seat. But the flimsy foam part is just the part you sit on. The back two sections are actually quite heavy. I'm hoping to take my car to get it weighed once I get my new tranny and manifold, I'll post up how much it weighs.

 

[DSM_Obsession]

whoa...i totally forgot about the goodwill laser.....awesome progress!

 

[SBstar]

Yeah project goodwill is definately my 14B hero. It's going to make me content on the 14B for a while. Good tuning and lightweight is the key to good 14B times. I'm working on the lightweight now I just need to start learning more about tuning haha.

 

[seth98es]

Swap to FWD, you will save 40lbs on the trans alone

Props on your progress though, I wonder what my Galant weighs. Can you get it weighed at those semi weigh stations?

 

[SBstar]

Swap to FWD, you will save 40lbs on the trans alone

Props on your progress though, I wonder what my Galant weighs. Can you get it weighed at those semi weigh stations?

That's where I plan on weighing mine. But its a small town weigh spot and my gf's dad owns a trucking company and goes through there all the time and will be able to get the owner to let me. I don't plan on swapping to fwd and I'm actually hoping the awd will help my times since I won't be doing full slicks such as project goodwill is on their fwd. I plan on running some drag radials sometime in the future. Hopefully by spring I'll have all the weight loss done, have the 14B tuned in running about 18-20 psi. Things I'll have done by the next shootout should include, fmic, dsmlink, FP 1 cams, sheet metal intake, and all the weightloss stuff. I'm hoping for some good times.

 

[94TSiAWD]

Best of luck to you guys. Weight is key. Not only to good times, but to reliablility which will help you to enjoy your car instead of fixing it all the time.

 

[SBstar]

Thanks for the inspiration.

 

[1993eclipseGS]

I have taken out almost 400lbs already. I stripped the whole interior out and scraped the floor's. It was such a pain. Here are a few of my pics to add to your thread. I weighed everything.

 

[SBstar]

Looking good, but I must suggest you get a seat to sit in . What all did you get rid of?

 

[1993eclipseGS]

Ya, I finally got the interior back together, I bought new seats too. I have removed:


Balance shafts.
Complete a/c.
Windshield wiper bottle/lines/etc.
Fog lights.
Front bumper support.
Replaced hood with a vis c/f hood.
Cruise control.
Act streetlite flywheel
Aircan, over flow bottle(Replaced w/ diff. one)
Going to remove intake and mafs and replace with gm mafs in uicp.
Enginebay heatshields, Fire wall padding etc. Inside and out.
Both fans off radiator, Replaced with 1 slim fan.
Panel under driversside steering wheel
All unnessacary bolts/screws/etc etc.
Kickpanels.
Replaced steering wheel
Complete carpet.
Sound detoning material under carpet/Padding.
plastic door cell panels.
Scraped ALL the ''tar'' off of the floor so it's just the metal throughout the WHOLE car.
Removed sounded detoning/padding from the roof, Replaced headliner with just the cardboard.
Removed carpet off of the ''kickpanels'' on the center counsole.
Removed EVERYTHING from the back of the front seats, And I mean basically everything that was bolted down. Rear speakers/brackets/seats/belts/plastics/tar/carpet ETC ETC.
Started cutting off the little piece of metal that are not needed anymore.
Removed all the heatshields from under the car.
Removed rear bumper support
I'm replacing the front seats (They weigh 50lbs each) With the lightest possible seats I can find, That still have padding.
Straight 3" apexi n1 exhaust no cat or anything.

There might be some more i'm forgetting.

 

[gamingguru]

Looks nice, have you picked up any et's off of all that? If you drive around daily in it is the road noise all that much worse.

 

[SBstar]

That's basically what I am planning, I want to keep the stock stuff around for easy reinstallation if necessary though, (plastic pieces that is). Carpet might stay but I'm starting to lean towards going all out weight loss. I'm starting to think about that 14B awd record, its about time somebody took another swipe at it.

 

[mostapasta]

Looks good! Does the stock steering wheel without an airbag weigh much? So how much does your car weigh now with all that out?

 

[falcone4g63]

Scraped ALL the ''tar'' off of the floor so it's just the metal throughout the WHOLE car.

How about the undercoating? I plan on weight reduction as well and was wondering about the undercoating. Would it be worth it to scrape or sand it off and just paint the underside of the car?, or just leave it.

 

[1993eclipseGS]

I never thought about that, It would be hard for me as I don't have a garage or anything i'd hafto jack my car up in front of my house where i do everything else.. I could see it being easier if it were on a lift though.

 

[1993eclipseGS]

Looks nice, have you picked up any et's off of all that? If you drive around daily in it is the road noise all that much worse.

I haven't got to drive the car yet since I did everything, Last time I went was with a stock fuel system/turbo/alot of weight. In the next few days hopefully i'll have it to drive. I plan on taking it to the race track again in two weeks.

 

[95dsmracer95]

after seeing this, after I completely part out my 95 eclipse, rebuild it, if just basic interior, and motor, etc.

Wow its nice.

BTW, How did you make the spare tire upside-down/backwards, or whatever?

 

[turbotsi92]

For everyone who is not daily driving remove the entire heating system, that is some major weight right there, and you would not believe how much room is under the dash. I also cut out all the bracing going across in the back, and up by the strut mounts, but I am planning on a roll cage to stiffen back up. CC, A/C, PS, Power seat belts all gone. I just ordered racing seats as well. Wipers, washer, lines, tank all gone, everything behind seats gone, plus more. I wish I would have weighed it all