Tree hugging canister bo77ocks ! Mumble mumble....
Rip 'em out ! Dunx P.S. Remove brakes for the real track experience, saves weight too ! |
thought id bump this up.. 4 yrs later what else have people found?
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What's another 8% off the fuel economy, it sucks as it is ...... Lol.
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How heavy is the canister?
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Originally Posted by eggy790
(Post 10141563)
thought id bump this up.. 4 yrs later what else have people found?
Its just the same ways unless your preppared to make your car look more like a track car. Also the saving.on bucket seats wont be that great as you still need brackets and custom bases to fit them.to then there will be the extra weight.of the harness. |
Instead of stripping, you could fill the car with a load of helium balloons !!! Should save some weight and if there's a leakage in the car, you'll have a laff when someone talks....
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Removed carbon canister a year ago, as I needed the space for a RCM cone filter. No ill effects / fuel smell and fuel economy has never been better - but I guess that is down to the fuelmap ;)
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I thought canister was in boot area?
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Originally Posted by swisstonihasher
(Post 10232237)
I thought canister was in boot area?
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Hmmm anybody know if I have one of these canisters in the back of my bug? I don't have a fuel vapour return pipe anymore so no point really in having the canister!
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Originally Posted by BlueBugEye
(Post 10272794)
Hmmm anybody know if I have one of these canisters in the back of my bug? I don't have a fuel vapour return pipe anymore so no point really in having the canister!
If you want to save around 12KGs on a newage just remove the U brace under the front. |
Battery is probably the simplist. Stock batterys are around 18kg and a 680 Odyssey is around 7kg from memory.
Failing that. Buy a classic lol |
I saved 5kgs on my classic by ditching the airbag and associated wiring/sensors! :D
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Ive got an 03 plate wrx, its going to be a road going track car.
Removed: carpet, sound deadening, bulkhead sound proofing,air con, airbags and wiring, spare wheel jack etc, many unneeded brackets/long bolts, rear spoiler, side skirts. realistic weight saving around 45kg Fitted: lighter DTM mirrors, carbon bonnet Realistic weight saving 8kg When funds allow il fit: racing battery,Lighter front seats, glass fiber boot lid, spec c manual windows |
Change to full decat stainless steel exhaust . Also remove front bumper bar.
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Also done above and rear speakers removed, although exhaust is still very heavy, titanium system would be the job :)
Cut some support steel work out of boot lid as well |
Interesting thread.
For a track car, I reckon you can save quite a bit of weight by cleaning up the wiring, as half the wires won't be needed on a track day car. I'm also about to attack the rear doors with the old plasma cutter, and who needs a spare wheel well? One thing I wonder is how much of the inner skins I can take off the front doors without compromisng safety unduly? I've got a full welded in cage with door crosses etc, so I don't think safety would be compromised, but I'd welcome input on this subject. |
I'm interested to see what you guys have got your car weight down to on the newage models, and what you started with. Mine is a UK blobeye, I am down to 1266kg fully wet with driver when stripped out, and slightly more now with some interior back in.
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1266 isn't bad - what have you done to it?
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It would be good to weigh my car, changed the rear seats to spec-c ones, prodrive fronts, all airbags gone and most of the aircon system - trying to keep it useable as a daily drive but shedding anything that is non-essential:D
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Originally Posted by Henrik
(Post 10398650)
1266 isn't bad - what have you done to it?
Carpets Rear seats All rear seat bars and plastics Front seats, runners and frames Sound deadening Glove box Radio Speakers Door cards All interior plastics Steering wheel Passenger airbag Seat belts Spare wheel, jack etc Changed to RA R glass Carbon wing mirrors Carbon bonnet Air con Chassis lightened by Chevron Motorsport in Stafford Things added back in... Race wheel with removable boss Recaro Apex seats (only a couple of kilos heavier than the carbon ones and half the price) FIA seat bars Alloy firrewall Fire extinguisher |
how was the chassis lightened? very impressive
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Sry, can't tell you that. Chevron keep those types of things to themselves. My car is used as a development car for them, so quite a bit is stuff is their knowledge only. Like some of the engine work, the TMIC, the geometry setup they use, diff setup, etc.
Total saving was a lot though. In some cases it was 10 - 20kgs at a time |
Has anyone got the fibreglass doors that are available ? I plan on. A set of them with Perspex for the rear 3 windows
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Originally Posted by F1 CJE UK
(Post 7354418)
yep i just did that dont think it would have fitted on my new big APs
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Originally Posted by JB1
(Post 10398601)
I'm interested to see what you guys have got your car weight down to on the newage models, and what you started with. Mine is a UK blobeye, I am down to 1266kg fully wet with driver when stripped out, and slightly more now with some interior back in.
I'm guessing WRX? Does that include rotated pipework or is the turbo standard position? It's worth having a search through the forums because some of the claimed weights on newage cars are, frankly, laughable. There's more than one "track prepared" UK newage STi out there claiming circa 1300kgs (and less in some cases) yet still managing to sport a Max Power bodykit, bling alloys, gazillion point cage and more chintz than you'd find in a McDonald's car park on a Saturday night. :D My UK Hawk STi currently weighs in at a little over 1300kgs + fuel + driver. What I've discovered is there is a fine line between weight saving and compromising the car as an overall package. I reckon I could go out to my car tomorrow morning and take 30kg out of it by lunchtime but I'm not convinced the benefits would outweigh the "costs" (I've got TWO fire extinguishers in it for a start) so for me weight saving is more of a gradual improvement over time. ;) |
Yeah, it took Chevron many months of prep to establish what could come out and what had to stay. The concern for me was when removing chuncks of metal that safety would be an issue in a collision. A lot of it was differences between the UK variant and the JDM RA R. I'll have to ask them exactly what they did.
Not a WRX, it's a first gen blobeye STI. Standard position turbo. It would be heavier now as I have put on some weight. I was less than 70kgs when I was weighed in :-) Next step would be carbon or glassfibre doors and roof, but adding the cage that would be required as a result more or less negates the lightweight doors and roof, and a well welded in cage is 65 - 70 kgs. As you say it's all a compromise, and at the moment it's running heavy as I don't want all the road or rear end noise from the fuel system when I drive to work so the rear seats and carpets are back in. But even in it's present state it blows away anything else I have driven. |
On another note is that bank managers classic still on ramp at chevron ? Seen it last summer and what a car, as mint under the car as on top, may be p1 not sure as was covered up,i was looking over the paint work as im in bodywork and it was very good,think he paid loads to have it painted(8,000) and it was awfull job so had it done again.when you have the dosh its easy,lol.
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My new age track car weighs 1320kgs without driver. I'm planning on getting this down to below 1200kgs by fitting fiberglass doors with plastic glass,light wieght alternator,lightwieght mirrors, fiberglass boot without wing and lighter intercooler.
Cheers Martin Picture of my track car http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a51...0_exposure.jpg |
Originally Posted by carl heath
(Post 10402508)
On another note is that bank managers classic still on ramp at chevron ? Seen it last summer and what a car, as mint under the car as on top, may be p1 not sure as was covered up,i was looking over the paint work as im in bodywork and it was very good,think he paid loads to have it painted(8,000) and it was awfull job so had it done again.when you have the dosh its easy,lol.
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