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Originally Posted by SkAsphalt
Where do you think you can achieve weight reduction in your current car? panel replacement would be expensive, and they are already quite light (unless the rear fenders were to be cut off and replaced with carbon?) the hood is so feather light...
Back seat delete, battery replacement, lose the spare and maybe cut out some sound deadening and you are probably at a 50lbs or more loss BUT the car would be noticeably louder** and could lose its DD status - however that would be the cheapest options. Changing rims could net a reduction of a few pounds per corner also but is an expensive en devour. I ask this notto shoot you down, but because I too am curious.
**disclaimer: I make this assumption based off previous claims that removing the spare tire and rear seats allows for the exhaust noise to permeate through the cabin much more easily. People were seeing internal DB ratings increase as much a 5-10DB with those deletes AND aftermarket exhausts (DB ratings were limited to 1-3 with just the exhausts)
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There are 2 weight reduction threads already on here.
http://www.ft86club.com/forums/showthread.php?t=7881
Conservatively...
Battery: 30 -> 4 lbs
Spare + tools: 30 -> 0 lbs
Rear Seats: 20 -> 0 lbs
Track Pipe: 36 -> 5 lbs
Potential of 106 lbs. It is not bad.
Then I would go for the two front seats as they are HEAVY. I would install lighter bucket seats if I was just tracking the car. I don't know about DD'ing it. I think I would want the safety features of stockers.