Practical weight saving

[DRZ]

I thought it might be interesting to see how people go about saving weight in their cars and approximate weights of various things that can be lived without!

Removing the spare tyre etc is an obvious place to start but thats not a huge amount of mass removed, so what else have you lot done to save those valuable KGs?

MrSix whipped out his rear seats, parcel shelf and some other stuff to make his 0-60 a bit quicker (and it seemed to work) on one occasion

 

[DRZ]

How far do you want to go?

Carbon fibre bonnet/wings/boot lid/doors
Perspex windows
Remove all interior/sound deadening
Lightweight seat (only the one mind you - extra weight of a 2nd seat!)

+ some of the things Firestar_3x mentioned.

How far do you want to go depends on what you consider practical Removing all of the interior will save you quite a lot but its a bit inrtusive driving about with all that noise!

 

[DRZ]

Just buy a new car. After you've spend thousands with the above, you could have just bought a new race-prepped sports car, rather than clapped out Escort and then trying to make it something special.

Christ almighty. Got out of bed on the wrong side, did we?!

Small and quite often free (or very cheap) changes can make a huge impact on times and general drive of the car. I wasnt talking about any specific cars and to the best of my knowledge, nobody in this thread so far has an escort so perhaps you should just back out the thread before posting crap.