weight reduction ideas 04 hatchback

[RoRo]

Wow, that's impressive. Did you ever measure how much weight was removed?

I kept track of everything. It was a project car. Stock weight was 2343 lbs and I had it down to 1803 lbs. That included taking the stock wheels off and putting on drag slicks on the front and skinnies in the rear. I only did that when I had it at the drag strip though. My best time was 16.6 @ 81mph.

You should easily be able to get rid of 50 lbs, just take out the spare tire and that should be 35-40 lbs right there. While you're taking out the spare tire, there should be a jack of some sort and misc tools in there as well. Take all of that out and then weight everything and you should be at or near 50 lbs.

I'm looking for the old journal I kept on that car because I wrote down everything I took out and how much it weighed.

[thehunterooo]

I kept track of everything. It was a project car. Stock weight was 2343 lbs and I had it down to 1803 lbs. That included taking the stock wheels off and putting on drag slicks on the front and skinnies in the rear. I only did that when I had it at the drag strip though. My best time was 16.6 @ 81mph.

You should easily be able to get rid of 50 lbs, just take out the spare tire and that should be 35-40 lbs right there. While you're taking out the spare tire, there should be a jack of some sort and misc tools in there as well. Take all of that out and then weight everything and you should be at or near 50 lbs.

I'm looking for the old journal I kept on that car because I wrote down everything I took out and how much it weighed.

That is really good, my fastest time was 17.3 @77-78mph with the CAI and exhaust (I am sea level though). I read something that gave an estimate of every 100 pounds loss equals .1 second off the 1/4 time. In this case it was a lot more, maybe around .14-.16 seconds or more off the time.