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I disagree. 100 lbs is significant.
Every pound shaved is more effective than the last. Kind of like the law of diminishing returns in reverse.
The weight savings of a carbon hood would have to be weighed against the change in balance, but it might be viable. Leave the battery up front, for instance, and take out the spare tire and jack. Take out the back seat... Remove bumpers and replace all glass with plexi.
Driving around like this won't impress anyone, but we're talking about racing. If it's legal, and you want to win, you'll do it.
Function before fashion.
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Originally posted by Stazi:
Was the other 240lb your buddy holding a case of beer? 
There's nothing you can unbolt, realistically (discounting doors, hood, trunk etc) that'll add up to 300lb (or 250lbs for that matter) Demon weighed all of the realistic stock "unboltables" (rear seat back and bottom, spare tire, car jack, tools) and I don't think it added up to even 100lbs, so I don't buy your 300lb weight reduction.
It may have been close to 250lbs. When I weigh-in with everything I usually have in, the car weighs over 3k. I weighed before heading to the strip and it was at 2760lb. No back seat, trunk carpet, spare, jack, sub box, much of the pillar trim, seat belts, a/c, and a few other things. Call BS all you want. I weighed it and I saw it.
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I managed to get my Cougar down to 2650 with my 19" wheels and body kit, still retaining the carpet and sound deadning materials also.
I dont know about the contours but the cougar has plenty of heavy panels and parts which can be removed to realise 250-300lbs of weight reduction w/o cutting.
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IMO anyone who guts their car to be faster instead of doing real performance mods is retarded. driving around teh streets in a STRIPPED contour that still runs high 17s is not cool at all. notice all the people with the fastest times all have a full interior. granted i removed subs and spare and jack, but thats it.
plus whats the point in driving a stripped contour on the street that the weight reduction is ofset by adding subs?
bottom line: obcessive weight reduction for a daily driver is absolutely retarded. it is a ricer mod to the fullest. now a dedicated DRAG CAR that is stripped is reasonable, it has one purpose, and that is to be fast in a straight line.
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Well I still have a few panels out, no back seat or belts, no trunk carpeting. I manage to drive around daily with no problems and even if I have to have passengers they still ride back there. I'm gonna do something with it one day, but I don't mind my car weighing less 24/7. I can also hear the subs better with no seat. Different strokes for different folks.
Oo and my car would run low 17s or high 16s in 1/4 mile if you were referring to my car.
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Originally posted by TheAlmightyMe:
Originally posted by Pimpalicious316:
http://www.jennycraig.com/
definitely the cheapest way, although not the quickest or easiest 
isnt there some "rule of thumb" that for every 100 pounds removed you shave about 1/10th of a second? i could have sworn i read that somewhere...(could be wrong) not worth driving around in a stripped car IMHO. weight reduction can save on gas, though im not sure it would be significant.
Originally posted by Tourgasm:
Sometimes you can mess up a word so bad that spell check doens't know what the hell you're talking about.
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Originally posted by svt4stv:
definitely the cheapest way, although not the quickest or easiest
isnt there some "rule of thumb" that for every 100 pounds removed you shave about 1/10th of a second? i could have sworn i read that somewhere...(could be wrong) not worth driving around in a stripped car IMHO. weight reduction can save on gas, though im not sure it would be significant.
So its like if I was to arrive to my nearest 7-11 in 2 seconds sooner. WOW!
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Along with light weight wheels there are light weight lug nuts. Also you can switch out your battery for much a lighter one(Dyna Batt, Odyssey 13-15 lbs. compared to about 40 lbs. stock battery). I switched out my front brakes for the Willwood brake kit which comes with calipers that weigh 20 lbs. less than the stock calipers.
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Originally posted by Russell-3L:
IMO anyone who guts their car to be faster instead of doing real performance mods is retarded.
I respect you, but this is a retarded statement.
Weight reduction is a real mod.
Some of your post makes sense, I'll grant you that. The "single wiper" mod comes to mind.
But the original post was about how to reduce weight, not "how do I impress my ricer friends?"
Worrying about what people think about you instead of your trap speed? I'm not much for drag racing, but that's retarded thinking in any paddock.
Function before fashion.
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Exactly. If you're not going to the drag strip to get the fastest times you can get, why even go? I can understand wanting to know what it runs in stock weight as well, but I also understand you put mods on a car so it goes faster. You remove weight so it goes faster. Same thing.
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