What good free mods, weight reduction is there for our cars??? Im already yanking the spare (i stay in town grab my spare when I go out)

BTW already got a injen intake coming hopefully from RED08SSTC on here so no intake mods

 

cf hood and trunk, backseat removal, lighter rims, recaro seats

thats pretty much the only thing people can really do with a cobalt for weight reduction

forget weight reduction tho and get a tune. the number one performance mod for the ss turbo (if u do have the turbo)

 

yep intake, pcm + tune hopefully within the next month

 

what tune did you get?

 

take out the spare and jack thing, back seats, the bar for the back seats (10lbs), floor mats, trunk carpet, rear head rests.
i lost about 90-100lbs off of my car with that stuff

 

shoulda said i want to keep her full street trim.. i dont mind removing stuff you cant see like under the dash or under carpet or even under hood but im not gonna "gut" my 08 daily driver :P


still deciding on tune i got my PCM coming atm thinking either a dyno tune at a place thats close or go tref

 

I think you are limited to about 100 lbs. reduction without starting to "gut" the car. I am pretty confident that you could take out close to 500 lbs. though if you were seriously willing to gut the car and swap for some fiberglass components. These cars at 2300 lbs. would be quite fun!

 

your rear seats weigh 60 lbs??

 

Here's a video I made of a local guy who races his EvoX (2008 NASA TT-A National Champion!)

This is how you make a car light weight....To be honest I wouldn't even mind that as a daily driver. His car is pure sex.

AMS+EVO+X+2008+NASA+TT-A+National+Champion!

CF parts baby


Carbon/Kevlar Roof:


MORE CF is on the way!

 

damn thats nice just dont get in a wreck lol.. bet that shaves a shitload off too.. but when ur getting that serious u start replacing glass too

 

no, my spare/jack weighed 45, seats 25, bar for seats 10, all mats and rear carpet 10lbs

 

and all that work you shave .1 off your 1/4 mile time... and the interior looks like dog **** and if you get a spare you're fucked, sounds like a solid plan

 

i used to had a gutted 300zx, but after about two years i put all my interior back in. and now i have a 09 T/C, and i will stick with street trim, except spare, jack, and rear spoiler.

 

y are u such a *****?

 

I strip my interior every Friday. Takes me 5 minutes to take out the front and rear seats, and maybe 5 more minutes to take the trunk contents out. Seems worth it for a couple tenths.

 

ya and when he outruns you at the track guess who will take out their seat next week ^^^

 

you can rid of the 40lb subwoofer enclosure in the trunk!

 

we can do that to our cars too for $6549

 

that is pretty expensive

 

you gottapay to play though

 

yeah, but still..... 7 G

 

It really depends on how much weight is saved. If it could drop more then 400 lbs. I would definetly do it. Our cars with under 2500lbs would be a blast.

 

oh yeah, for show. 400lbs off our car, it will be pretty crazy.