type-ellis

iTrader: (24)

Hi guys, just a quick one. Like many of you i want my car to be quicker all the time, keeps me interested in it and keeps a big smile on my face. Anyway, last few days ive decided to get a bit of weight out of my type r, i started with takeing off the aircon, then out came the spare wheel, jack and all my tools, next was the boot carpet and boot liners and ive also taken off all the sound matting off the boot floor and tonight pulled the back seats out to remove all the matting from under there aswell. I carnt believe how much quicker the car seems to feel just from that little lot, is it my mind playing tricks with me or does it realy make that much differance. I was planning on putting my rear seats back in once id finished takeing all the sound matting off but now im haveing second thoughts about putting them back in right now. Just wanted too see if anyone else had done this and found a big improvement?

BBB3

iTrader: (7)

on my old impreza i did the same after i done it it felt quicker...after bout a week it didnt feel any faster so i put the interior back in...so i think my mind was playing tricks on me...

other people might of noticed the difference more than me...

gallois

have a play with this calculator, it will give you an idea of what sort of weight saving can give improvements over 0-60 or 1/4mile etc.

gallois

doh!, i'd better post the link hadn't i. Car Stats - Calculator

BBB3

iTrader: (7)

what this Car Stats - Calculator ?

dj219957

this thread needs pics! show us your stripped out motor!

BBB3

iTrader: (7)

^^^^ both at the same time ^^^^ lol

JB1

Do 4 or five runs in the car. Get a mate to put two car batteries in the boot on a couple of the runs but don't tell you if they are in or not. Make sure they won't move or make a noise so you can't tell if they are there or not. Do the runs and see if you notice the difference.

Taking stuff out makes a difference. If you can notice 30kgs or so I'm not so sure.

m@t STImulation

iTrader: (3)

same had seats out think its noise and you can sort of pretend you are on a rally stage then get pissed off and realised steat's are feather light and back in the car feels the same

BBB3

iTrader: (7)

same here its all good for a week then you get fed up with it

type-ellis

iTrader: (24)

cheers for the replys guys. Yeh some pics of your stripped out cars would be great. I will get some pics of what im upto tommrow. This weekend the carpet is comeing up to remove the rest of the sound matting. Ive only done the boot and under the back seats and already have half a bag full that weighs a good little bit. The back seats i will more than likely put back in as they aint all that heavy but i do think its made a differance. with everything ive taken out, spare wheel, tools and the rest of it id say so far ive removed a good 60kg from it.

shaggydabbydoo

Ok this all sounds brill but wot does a standered Impreza weigh
So then I can use the stats calculater 2 work out if its worth doing

gallois

which impreza, model, year?

shaggydabbydoo

Soz its a WRX STI 2.0 6speed 02 hope that's enough info

gallois

1470kg.

JB1

Back the same, with alloy firewall to the boot for fuel system. All door cards, grey plastic out too ready for this weekend, but cards and door plastics go back in for day to day use after.

shaggydabbydoo

Wow cheers gallios

mr_D

iTrader: (12)

i stripped out the backend of my 97 sti. and admit it felt faster but thats because of noise change. i could hear the tyres on the road and the exhaust more. and this in turn with knowing its stripped made it feel faster!

shaggydabbydoo

Hi, have sat playing with calculater changing weights every time and wot I can work out is 4 every 30kg
U remove from car u improve times by 0.2 of a second. It was a much bigger improvement
If u increased the break by the same amount. Hope that's of some use. Cheers