IRC450STI

Stripping my everyday road car and turning it into a track car and so far i have the power 400+BHP and im now starting to make it lighter, already removed seats & a/c and the boot has been stripped, so i guess what my question is what else could i do to make car lighter, Would removing rest of interior ie carpets, roof liner etc make much of a difference, i will also be removing rear spoiler and replacing with a carbon drift works spoiler next week, ANY OTHER IDEAS WOULD BE HELPFULL THANKS

Handling & Interior spec

17" inovit redlines 215/40/17 Toyo T1rs
Hotbits fully adjustable coilovers
Whiteline anti lift kit
Whiteline 4 point lower strut brace
Whiteline ARB & solid droplinks
Whitline strut brace
Scoobyclinic 6 pot big brake kit

OMP Bucket seats
OMP 4 point harnesses

What is the weight of a 95 WRX in standard form & what weight could i lose roughly when stripped out

Here is a pic of the dieting scoob

stevebt

iTrader: (8)

Stripping the interior will make a difference, The UK impreza is the lightest of them all weighing in at 1210kg as standard

wrxbart

iTrader: (5)

Depends
on how far you want to go,you could remove all sound deadening which is heavy,remove the door bars,cut out spare wheel well and replace with a flat ally sheet,carbon door panels with drilled out doors.The list goes on.

The Stitcher

iTrader: (12)

plastic windows

IRC450STI

I thought about carbon door panels but they are mega bucks unless i can get some second hand ones, and i will remove all sound deadening.
I think the Import wrx is lighter than uk impreza, mine has alloy bonnet and lighter panels than uk impreza and would love to get it down to a 1000kg

Cheers

stevebt

iTrader: (8)

PMSFL the UK impreza is the lightest of all the early imprezas FACT

T5OLF

iTrader: (4)

I would have thought the RA would weigh less. No lecy windows, no spoiler, alloy bottom arms and bonnet etc.

RA Dunk

airbags, central locking, interior clock...............

i would put my mortgage on the version 1 & 2 type RA comming in at 1170 kilos and the version 3 comming in arond 1200 or just above, having owned a UK turbo and now a STI V3 RA i definately know my current one is alot lighter than the UK turbo ever was, ill wait to be proved wrong on this though but i cant see it

IRC450STI

Scoob now lighter, sound proofing gone , carpets etc, removed rear spoiler so now spoilerless and i like it, drift works spoiler in garage waiting to go on when i get my higher custom made supports cos standards one are to low for me, but im likeing the spoilerless look

JP4

iTrader: (12)

I take it you mean the spoiler has come off?

STI_Baly

iTrader: (23)

You could remove the dash to....and place switches on a fiberglass/carbon panel.

IRC450STI

LOOK NO SPOILER





Going to have dash flocked

JP4

iTrader: (12)

Looking good m8.

IRC450STI

Driftworks spoiler is on, front splitter is my next job on list, then im hopeing to get power up to 450bhp ready for shootout

IRC450STI

Driftworks on Needs to be higher i think







Front splitter next

Mattyboy-Wrx

Saw this before xmas when i was working in Tupton

Ferreth

Nooooo, it wants to be lower. Like this \/

Ferreth

Did a quick photopoop with Paint

Adam Kindness

iTrader: (1)

Impreza has a higher roof line... so really needs to be higher than the one on the nissan

STI_Baly

iTrader: (23)

Cars looking real good, and the low level spoiler don't look right. I think either medium (photoshop it i think for more opinions) or keep as it is coz it looks good.

My 2p's worth

IRC450STI

The spoiler is going to be a bit higher soon ( about roof height ) still abit more work to do on car etc and looking to up power to 450bhp

JP4

iTrader: (12)

Take it you will be changing to SC50??

IRC450STI

No cos the SC46 should make that power , SC50 to big for a 2ltr i think

JP4

iTrader: (12)

Oh... my understanding was that the SC46 indicates a 460 bhp turbo but recalling my conversation with SC this will take you up to 420 max if that??

What torque levels are you expecting?

Mus

iTrader: (2)

hey jp not all turbos do as they say and specially when you dont have full suporting mods

IRC450STI

TBO im not 100% sure myself about turbo so i may have it wrong about the SC46 guess i need to ask SC, as for torque levels if i get 450bhp on a 2ltr then 430ish torque would be nice but at the end of the day you get what you get i surpose

p060064h

Im striping mine at the mo could you please explain what/where the sound deadening is please. & how to remove ?

Thanks craig.
PS. sorry for the high jack

IRC450STI

There is sound deadening on the bulk head at back of engine which is a bit heavy