Spare tire and tools, rear headrests, hatch shelf/cover, floor mats.

 

Take off the front doors like a Wrangler? Perhaps remove the hood? The 9000 is a pig and really isn't worth trying to make light.....it is luxurious and by trying to strip any real major weight, you will take away some of the luxury the car has. If that doesn't bother you, rip out your seats and all the motors for them and put in some racing seats. Also, maybe do a rear seat delete of some sort like the Mustangs?

 

so aero ya deffinatly didnt read the part about non ricer and not removing the seats didja?

im not going to compeate with neon for weight im just trying to find stuff i could possibly replace or take out to shed a few pounds. I love the combination of luxuary and the speed thats why i love my car. But it is a tank which is why id like to lighten it a bit.

 

Reading comprehension owns me! I just finished lifting my Jeep. Took 16 hours of straight work!!!! So I have'nt slept and have lost atleast 30 IQ points.

 

sunroof and motor is 40-50 pounds, rear window motors are about 10, front seats are 30ish, rear seat weighs nothing....hood is heavy as hell. overall your not gonna do anything worth while. especially not easily

 

You can take some pounds out...but like anything it isn't going to come without a trade-off. None of the little shit will really add up to much, you'd need to get into lexan windows that stay in place remove all the interior stuff that isn't needed (door panels, seats, some of the H/V/AC stuff, headliner, carpet, insulation, etc.). The only way to make the car relatively light is to have it stripped to nothing, and that isn't too much fun for a daily driver.

 

so bascily what your all saying is ...

man up ... save up get a new clutch and turbo and go stage 4 or more next year if i wanna go faster?

 

why not just man up and do it now? i know your payed.

 

b/c i havnt driven it all summer and i JUST got my stage 3+ working right.

I havnt had a porperly functioning/boosting car since... march maybe?

Im enjoying not driving the prius

 

CF hood FTW. i will sell you one when i find someone to produce them for me. Scanwest might do it, but im not sure. Kevins makin mine

Im to lazy to take on CF work

 

At least your not like me adding ~150 pounds worth of audio goodies. A general rule of thumb is every 100 pounds out of the car is a tenth of a second. Take the spare out, buy some light weight rims. For track day, take the rear seats out.

 

I read somewhere, and this may apply to older generation 9000s like mine, have identical, but lighter counterparts, such as doors, with cars such as the Fiat Chroma and Lancia Thema. I have access to a Thema but I think my mechanic would be awfully sore if I swapped his doors. The 9000s doors IIRC are more heavier than their Italian European counterparts due to side impact protection, which speaks to me that Lancia and Fiat arent the best in side impact protection

 

9000s are pigs huh, well i did get my 87 to tip the scales at 2565lbs without me in it, pretty light for a 4 door car if you ask me.

 

care to share how? or are u just bragging?

 

There's a lot of meat at the front of a 9000 to protect the driver in a collision, the metal core support of the bumper probably helps, but I bet you'd be find in any reasonable speed crash...you'd just subject more mechanical parts to damage.

 

Sorry to say so but the above statement is very wrong!

 

I know alot of people get rid of the heatshield/noise deadening fabric thats attached to the hood of the car. Probably doesnt weigh more then 10 pounds but yeah.. its something right?

 

it only weighs a couple of pounds and made the paint crack on two of my hoods without the car over heating. Just a FYI

 

first I've heard of that happening. Thanks for the heads up, not going to risk messing up my hood.

 

well you can only be so careful, and im guessing you never wrecked your 9000 without them. It could mean getting hurt, or not.

 

well just because somone decides to do it you cant just go calling them stupid left and right, unless you want to call the rest of the people stupid that do it, hundreds of thousands of people. But i guess everyone has their own opinion, i wont do it to my aero but if i had a car that i was serious about going fast with i would def do it.weight=free HP

 

im not callin you stupid directly. I think the idea is stupid unless its a race car with other means of protection installed in it (like roll cages or somethin)

 

Race car with roll cages, no prob....take off as much as you want that's not struturally important.

On a street car, I'd be very reluctant to take out a federally required safety structure.

Just sayin....

I like speed as much as the next person, but....

 

Race car with roll cages, no prob....take off as much as you want that's not struturally important.

On a street car, I'd be very reluctant to take out a federally required safety structure.

Just sayin....

I like speed as much as the next person, but....

thanks mike

 

you can take off our crap stock lining and get a heat insulation that has an adheisive on one side

like this http://www.hrpworld.com/AdhesiveBackedHeatBarrier.cfm?form_prod_id=582,58_4251&action=product

or this http://www.hrpworld.com/COOLITInsulatingMat.cfm?form_prod_id=582,58_4263&action=product

 

its lighter. Thats what im using on my CF hood when it gets here and painted.

 

so your paying like 800 bucks for a cf hood and then painting it?

 

CF isnt for the looks nate, and its not getting completely painted

and its not going to be $800.

 

so you know its saving you like 20 pounds right?

 

ummm yep pretty much. Whats your deal, why do you care so much?

 

see the thing is i needed a new hood anyways, couldnt find a good dent free hood locally (or for that fact pretty much in the US) and new ones are like $500. and the only good used hood i found was red and they wanted $400 for it. So this for me is a deal.

 

 

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