Weight Reduction!

[Elbow]

Ok,

I am taking weight off my 240 it is fat. Anyway, I have taken A/C out, all emission crap, back seats, getting to the sound deadening stuff. I saw an article a while back in a magazine I think, a shop was building a...forgot maybe S2K and they were going into detail with reductions. The shop drilled holes on the trunk hindge, everything! I want to go stupid hardcore like that but forgot where I saw it, anyone else seen it?

I am also removing my door panels, how safe is it to cut some of the bracing off, like the "ribs" as well as in the trunk and stuff. Sorry if this topic is stupid, but I always thought weight reduction was cool lol

[Bishop]

if its a race car and not daily driven, you can drill big holes in the bumper support..... actually its just not safe for any car lol

[i4_garage]

^^drill holes into ur door jams....take ur dash off..mkae another one wit aluminum...lolz...hummm...cute away ur radiator support....and just get the rampart to hold it ....reinefore it wit tubings....grind down some of the bolts remove any unuse metal shit...wat else...there alo of stuff to do...try it

[§treet_§peed]

take the motor out....sell the rest of the car...go have a metal tube frame built to fit inside of a polyurethane molding of a 240, throw the motor and a seat in, and the very minuim of what you have to have. and there ya go, lol






































just agrrivating you.

[Elbow]

thanks for the ideas, i am going to drill into my doors i marked some markings tonight will get the drill out tommorow. it is a daily driver, BUT I like the hardcore look and feel. i used to have a full gutted caged civic with a 5 point harness and Kirkey styled seat so...lol. anymore ideas?

[GsrTurbo320]

..this might help..FTW

[i4_garage]

lose some weigh...on ur body....lolz......when u drive wear less clothes....replacde metal body parts wit fiberglass ones....remove any bolts unneccessary and in their place put rivets to strengthen the chassis

[Elbow]

guess my girl cant ride anymore.....jk jk. fiberglass later, trying to keep it "free weight reduction" right now

[Hektik]

take all carpet out , headliner, get carbonfiber seat, only fill up half way remove p/s get a sawazall and cut away all peices of sheet metal not needed

[yudalicious]

then realize you've destroyed a perfectly good car for no reason, made it less safe, louder, more uncomfortable, less convenient. Unless it's a track only car, stick to the normal weight reduction stuff.

[wantboost]

take all carpet out , headliner, get carbonfiber seat, only fill up half way remove p/s

done all that would not advise doing if it is a daily driver (but then again i dont mind it)

[an0therh22]

remove ur airbags take one lugnut off ur wheels gets lot of carbonfiber

[speedminded]

remove ur airbags take one lugnut off ur wheels gets lot of carbonfiber

CF isn't really all that much lighter than OEM panels...not much weight savings until you start getting into the unibody itself anyways.

Most likely won't be able to drill into the bumpers....will burn up hole saw bits like crazy. Best is with a plasma torch, say 3" holes or so all the way across the bumper, you can do the face, top and bottom. Only problem is you don't want to hit anything...bumper covers are good for 5mph and the bumpers themself are much higher but cutting holes in it puts it theoretically down to 1mph...you don't want to hit anything afterthat.

[TheSnail]

Strip the inside. Take off the front bumper support. Trim the rear one. Get a lawn mower battery or a light drycell. Take everything out from behind the dash (70lbs worth of crap), aluminium one peice driveshaft, aluminium 300zx calipers, winshield wipper pump and resivour. Some other things you can do is gut the doors and have fixed acrylic windows, and acrylic windows all around, minus the front. Here is my old 240 that I stripped, I even took out all seat belts lol.

[an0therh22]

no ac or ps

[Elbow]

So far I have gutted all the panels and started cutting, left front carpet, I will post some pics. I plan on a full roll cage soon.

[§treet_§peed]

i've been thinking about building a 240 myself..after i finish my civic of course!

[speedminded]

i've been thinking about building a 240 myself..after i finish my civic of course!

from one bandwagon to the next w/o ever touching the ground

[§treet_§peed]

in a way so true! but of course...HONDA FTW!!!