What are some good ways to do this?

Ok as much money as I have in my car now I am not trying to be cheap at all BUT I know when I was stock and looking to make my car faster as cheap as possible i never really considered making my car lighter. So now I am thinking my car would ALOT faster if I could take a few hundred pounds out of it....and for th ewise guys I weight 185 pounds and I am 6'2 so I am not looking to make me lighter lol anyway. I was wondering does anyone know some ways to make your car lighter but keeping the car looking like stock weight. Like i want my car interior to look full and the way it was from the factory but I want my car as light as possible. Now I know about the taking the spare tire out and jack and all that. But are there some tricks you can do to cut some major weight out of the car and it not be noticed?????????
 
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Start drilling holes in it everywhere like they did in the '60s :D

Just off the top of my head...
CHEAP: Remove sound deadening insulation (in doors, under carpet, etc), ditch power steering, switch to crank windows, toss the vibration damper on the rear end, get rid of the radio and speakers, lose the fog light support and lights, ditch the front torsion (sway) bar... Mostly stuff that will make your car less enjoyable on the road.

NOT SO CHEAP: Aluminum driveshaft, aftermarket U/L rear control arms, aftermarket K-member and front a-arms, aftermarket torsion (sway) bars, lightweight race-specific wheels, fiberglass hatch and poly windshield... look at Maximum Motorsports website.
 
its weight off the car and off of the front end which is a big plus for drag racing. the front sway bar has a little weight to it. but you will sacrifice handling. so you may just want to take it off before you go to the track.
 
Honestly, at 550hp.....going through the hassle of losing weight wouldn't be worth it. In my opinion.

A 100lbs is a lot of work, and the rule of thumb is 100lbs = .1 of a second. At 550hp, you should be pretty fast as it is. If you were building a track only car, then I can see going through the hassles....but if it is a street driven car, I wouldn't worry so much about trying to drop some weight.

Plus you figure after losing smog and AC, everything else makes the car less streetable.
 
Leave it alone.
You asked in another post what your car is worth.
The answer to that after you do any of the cheap weight loss, is $3000.

Aluminum heads, K member, aluminum driveshaft, smog equipment, and lightweight suspension parts are the only way to lose weight on a street car.
Anything else is dumb, and devalues your car.
I wouldn't even consider buying a car with no PS or A/C.
And sacrificing saftely, ride quality and interior noise for weight loss will only make you hate your car, and turn it into a rattling POS.
 
Leave it alone.
You asked in another post what your car is worth.
The answer to that after you do any of the cheap weight loss, is $3000.

I wouldn't even consider buying a car with no PS or A/C.
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:lol:
:stupid:

After owning a fox for a while and buying some in the past year or 2, if its gonna have to be a black interior, PS and A/C. and probably only ones with 5 lug brakes would be cars that I would consider buying for over 6K.
So you pretty much have all of those on your car I would not mess around. If you want to loose wieght, take your back seat out and everything out of your hatch including your spare tire and jack.
 
DONT remove the A/C

the A/C is the cherry on top of the cupcake when it comes to street cars.

i get numerous comments about my car. they see how it runs and stuff and love the fact it still has a working A/C on. nothing beats crusing to the local track with the cold A/C blowing in your face, get to the track, turn it off and run like a raped ape, nab some awesme times. then leave the track and crack the A/C back on and enjoy the ride home with the A/C blowing the cold air in your face again. thats a TRUE street car.

and removing the P/S isnt a good idea either.
 
take your back seat out and everything out of your hatch including your spare tire and jack.
:nono:

Oh no, no removing the back seat, been there, done that, and spent even more to undo doing it.
No matter how well it's done, a fox never looks right as a 2 seater.
Besides, seat deletes weigh about 3/4 of of what the seats weigh, which is only like 35lbs, and removing rear end weight hurts traction.
Basically removing the rear seat only nets you like a 10lb loss.

Removing my rear seats is inside my top 3 of dumb things i've done to my car in the last 15 years.
 
remove your outer bumper shells, then the inner bumpers. thats a hundred pounds right there and once you reinstall the shells, it looks stock. remove the fire retardent stuff on the fire wall, the insulation under the carpet and thats another 50-75 right there. oh, and take a sh** and your left shoe off! i got my 94 down to 2700 with a full tank and full nos bottle. but i also did some other things you might not want to. haha. but it looked bone stock
 
what are the other 2 ?

Southside Bars and Nitrous.
Nitrous is ghey and far from cost effective, and holy crap did the southside bars mess up my torque boxes, $1100 worth. Using solid bearings instead of bushings is not good for the street, i assure you of that.
 
remove your outer bumper shells, then the inner bumpers. thats a hundred pounds right there and once you reinstall the shells, it looks stock. remove the fire retardent stuff on the fire wall, the insulation under the carpet and thats another 50-75 right there. oh, and take a sh** and your left shoe off! i got my 94 down to 2700 with a full tank and full nos bottle. but i also did some other things you might not want to. haha. but it looked bone stock

What kind of scale are you using? The front bumper is fiberglass and the rear is steel, but it doesnt add up to a hundred pounds? And every time I read that fire retardant line I keep on thinking of frying to death.lol




Heres something that crossed my mind, do you think those big gaps inbetween the inner and outer fenders on the front end create a lot of drag at speed? If you can cover them so they dont act as parachutes... who knows.:shrug: I also read/heard that the GT rear bumper and Saleen wing creates drag.