I wieghed gsx yesterday

[Ben]

2915 w/o me in it and 3/4 tank of gas. 91 gsx.

How does this compare?? to stock, and other cars. I have NOTHING in the back 1/2 of my car. It's stripped down to the core back there. No A/C compressor/lines/condensor/a/c bracket ect. manual steering rack. stock 16s. uuuuhhh what else affects the wieght that people might want to know......

I want to make it lighter, but I don't see anything else simple enough for what I want. I'm not ready to pull the dash. I still would like a pass seat. And I think I still want carpet in the front half. For now.

A guy I work with has scales for his dirt track car.
I need to go put my evo on them and see how much that heavy bastard wieghs.

 

[PIMking]

find a carbon fiber hood trunk deck. A buddy of mine UTI auto body grad took one of my fenders and made a mold out of it and made a fiberglass fender. Light weight wheels. 100lbs =.10 sec in 1/4 mile times.

 

[N1balla16]

Carbon fiber hood is a really good first start. Fenders you won't loose that much weight but still every little bit helps. Smaller battery is another thing people do.

 

[silver bullit]

http://www.dsmtuners.com/forums/newbie-forum/232077-weight-reduction.html

Enjoy

I have knocked about 250-280 from my 90, and i still have complete interior looks completely stock.

I only put in 1/4 or 1/3 at most gas in my car.

Just by doing 1/4 vs. 3/4 is roughly 45 ish lbs. Gas weighs roughly 6.8 lbs a gallon.

 

[TurboT91]

Do a search in the forums...there are alot of posts covering reducing the weight of you DSM.

 

[c5chris]

I was surprised to see the weight, then I saw that you were into weight reduction.

I wonder how much a 2G AWD weigh stock.

 

[oldman420]

I beleive i wikipidiad this once and a stock 1g tolan is 3208 lbs i beleive, and a laser is 3106 pretty sure. Different rim and seat options will change the weight but that is fairly accurate.

 

[Ben]

Oh yeah, I still have both crash beams. And they will stay. Not willing to do that yet either.

There was a scale under each wheel, and the fronts were in the 800-900, and both the rear wheels were in the 500s.
I remember the drivers side on both the front and rear wieghed more than the pass side.

I know there's more wiehgt reduction to be done. I'v done a little searching. But this is all I want to do for now.
I may get lighter wheels, carbon fiber hood. And maybe a hatch, but I'd be afriad of it not fitting well.

 

[oldman420]

If it doesn't fit quite right, bring it into a body shop and get them to bake your car in the boothe for a bit. My buddy did that with his srt-4. At first you could see his engine through the hood seem, after it was so flush it was ridiculouse.

 

[lilbro717]

do you have the stock seats? if you do, get some light weight seats

 

[Ben]

I would be willing to get light seats too. I think I'm going to spend some money on some more go fast parts, then maybe spend some money on making it lighter.

I wouldn't even know where to start looking for seats. Do people make brakets in install different seats in these cars??

 

[oldman420]

Most guys buy seat and fab. custom bracket. Or fab. adapters to use with the oe brackets. Personally i like guys who fab. their own brackets, usually it fits better and if you use the right material your removing even more weight.

 

[Supa Dexta]

I need to get mine weighed. I still have ps, but I don't have my crash beams and I have a carbon hood and lighter wheels.

 

[Gamble97]

I would be willing to get light seats too. I think I'm going to spend some money on some more go fast parts, then maybe spend some money on making it lighter.

I wouldn't even know where to start looking for seats. Do people make brakets in install different seats in these cars??

Ben I have the megan racing seats. I got one from a group buy and the other off an offer I made on ebay. Then I went to wedge or sbr and got brackets from them. Still cost a decent amount in the end. The brackets are $99 each WTF

 

[talonTSIDriver]

Here are a few cars I have corner-weighted.

My Car: (97 eagle talon tsi awd) some weight reduction, not much.
http://www.dsmsupport.com/images/asm/cw/IMG/2gTalon_with_driver.JPG

91 Talon FWD turbo with Driver:
http://www.dsmsupport.com/images/asm/cw/IMG/1gTalonFWD_with_driver.JPG

91 Talon TSI AWD with Driver:
http://www.dsmsupport.com/images/asm/cw/PDSM.JPG

 

[Project2G]

I want to weigh my carbon fiber panda... Where did you weigh it at? I could probably go to a recycling place or metal place that has a car scale.

 

[92GVR4#5]

I should weigh the galant to. It be interesting to see the weight differance between the galant and a 1g awd.

 

[Ben]

A guy I work with has scales for his dirt track race car.

Also DOT stations have scales. You can just drive up on it even when they're closed. Just go look at the read out through the window. I'm sure not all of them are that easy but I'm sure some are.

I'm interested in the seats now. But I still want a new turbo. I need something bigger than a 16g.

 

[blownturbotsi]

Hey Ben, would you mind helping me out with my car's weight problem?

 

[Ben]

How can I help? How far is Clovis from Lubbock??