WHAT DID YOU DO TO YOUR FRS TODAY?

[Tcoat]

Originally Posted by guybo

No jack- I gave the scissors jack to my son who's car had none. The floor jack made a racket everytime I hit a bump it had to go. Oh well. The spare is strapped down with a ratchet strap, no bungee thank you very much. It is not going anywhere.

In a crash that spare would be out of that strap in less than a heartbeat. Fooling yourself to think otherwise but hey, it's your neck.

[humfrz]

Originally Posted by fx1mark

So you have a spare tire but if you have a flat on the side of the road you can't put it on because you don't have a jack?

Oh, maybe some folks would stop by and help out .......


humfrz

[humfrz]

Originally Posted by guybo

Brilliant! There's a reason we keep you around, Humfrz

I'll have to give credit to Bubba for that idea .....can I still stay ........??


humfrz

[humfrz]

Originally Posted by guybo

No jack- I gave the scissors jack to my son who's car had none. The floor jack made a racket everytime I hit a bump it had to go. Oh well. The spare is strapped down with a ratchet strap, no bungee thank you very much. It is not going anywhere.

By keeping the spare tire, you're missing the opportunity to get rid of quite a bit of weight.

Hell, I drove my Miata for 88,000 miles with no spare tire, never had a flat ......


humfrz

[humfrz]

Originally Posted by Tcoat

In a crash that spare would be out of that strap in less than a heartbeat. Fooling yourself to think otherwise but hey, it's your neck.

I'm thinking that the spare tire is too big to get forward of the back of the headrests ....... besides, he has a shirt in there to cushion the blow .......


humfrz

[guybo]

I've used my spare in the past, though not with this car. It's a roll of the dice and I'm not much of a gambler. I have AAA and they [we actually] all carry a jack. It'd be a PITA waiting so long for light service to come out with a jack, but I have a spare, and it beats waiting for a tow truck. I also carry a plug kit and of course, there's the TPMS- I border on paranoid since that's what I do for a living.

[humfrz]

Originally Posted by guybo

I've used my spare in the past, though not with this car. It's a roll of the dice and I'm not much of a gambler. I have AAA and they [we actually] all carry a jack. It'd be a PITA waiting so long for light service to come out with a jack, but I have a spare, and it beats waiting for a tow truck. I also carry a plug kit and of course, there's the TPMS- I border on paranoid since that's what I do for a living.

You are paranoid for a living ??........


humfrz

[guybo]

I tow people who don't have a spare for a living

[humfrz]

Originally Posted by guybo

I tow people who don't have a spare for a living

Oh, OK ........ I got the picture ........


humfrz

[Spuds]

Originally Posted by guybo

The spare has been moved forward to minimize it's moment of inertia. All the weight removed is from the ass end of the car & I wanted to move whatever weight I could to the middle for handling. I used the trunk cardboard floor under the spare to minimize noise and protect the fuel module thing in the trunk.

Sooo, what point exactly are you minimizing the moment of inertia about?

[Wise]

Finalised my brakes and suspension setup for track days.



Coilovers are Shockworks
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[StraightOuttaCanadaEh]

Originally Posted by guybo

This is not a beautification project. My wife said she hates it (win) and I told her, this is ugly and I don't care. Deleting the rear seat and all loses around 30lbs (according to others who have weighed the stuff removed in videos I have seen) and I got rid of the floor jack (34 lbs according to the company).

That's exactly what I wanna do. Remove everything. I already took out the spare, trunk liner and all the tools and foam pads. Freed up about 35 lb. So how much weight did you remove in total you think?

[humfrz]

Originally Posted by StraightOuttaCanadaEh

That's exactly what I wanna do. Remove everything. I already took out the spare, trunk liner and all the tools and foam pads. Freed up about 35 lb. So how much weight did you remove in total you think?

Just curious ........ why?




humfrz

[Spuds]

Originally Posted by StraightOuttaCanadaEh

That's exactly what I wanna do. Remove everything. I already took out the spare, trunk liner and all the tools and foam pads. Freed up about 35 lb. So how much weight did you remove in total you think?

I pulled my rears out too. If you remove the brackets and all that and put the bolts back it's about 27 lb by my scale. Rear panels are another pound and a half each as I recall. I left them in because the level of sound deadening you get for 3lb is pretty damn good. It's also much louder at 60mph+ from tire and wind noise. There's a component weight thread with exact numbers somewhere.