Okay, so your ready to head over to the track and you really want some nice numbers to impress all your friends. What's the best way..

Its Jazzercize Time - Cobalt Style. Lol

I was able to remove over 200 lbs from the Cobalt, all in less than an hour.

Weight - Item
-4 ----- Floor Mats (Driver, Passenger, & 2 Rear Mats)
-13 ---- Stock Pioneer Subwoofer
-28 ---- Spare Tire, Styrofoam Supporter, & Sound Deadening Material
-6 ----- Tire Jack & Wrench
-1 ----- Owners Manual
-4 ----- Rear Headrests
-8 ----- Trunk Carpet
-42 ---- Passenger Seat
-7 ----- Rear Passenger Side Seat Back
-10 ---- Rear Driver Side Seat Back
-12 ---- Rear Seat Bottom

TOTAL= 135 Pounds

Here are the How To's on a bunch of those parts.
How To Remove Rear Seats
How To Remove The Passenger Seat
How To Remove Rear Headrests
How To Remove Rear Seat Backs & Bottoms

Some other things I was able to remove (RESULTS MAY VARY)
Weight - Item
-66 ----- 2 - 12" Subwoofers in box, 2 Amps, & some wire
-5 ------ Assorted Power / Ground Wire for Subs
-6.7 ---- 1 Gallon of Gasoline
-.05 ---- 1 Key, unknown matching lock cylinder. Lol

Grand (Personal) Total = 206 Pounds


Let me know if this helps any!
If you have any other weight ideas, feel free to post up.

 

but when some fat ass sits in it the car will be back to stock weight. waste imo but good job

 

subscribe! great stuff thanks for taking the time to weight all that!!!

 

good job...i prefer to run fully loaded cuz i run on the track to see wat i'd run on the street so i dun see the point in takin stuff out if your looking for an accurate reading the way the car sits...if your lookin for good time then yea...definitely a good job tho...big weight lose simple

 

Nice, I was thinking about removing my back seats all together and throw some nice material back there but I dunno, I will have to do it and see what it looks like.

 

Yea, its nice to run fully loaded for an accurate street time, but, there a decent jump in trap speeds with less weight.

 

thanks... makes me realize its worthless to remove the back seat for 30 pounds but definately helps that i dont have to go through trial and error on this by myself

nice info

 

I'm a little guy. One time this fat ass at the track who weighed well over 300 pounds asked me to drive his car to get better times. It was a SRT-8 Magnum. He ran a 13.6 @ X mph. I jumped in and on my first run I ran a 13.1 @ X mph

 

They were a lot lighter than I expected. The passenger seat is pretty heavy, and the spare tire/jack where pretty heavy. Although, the rear seats pop out in less than 2 minutes without any unscrewing or unbolting, so its not that bad.

 

wow...lol.

 

Well, thats just that much less weight in the car weighing that car down with the fat ass in it! hahaha

 

How about that large metal black brace on the bottom of the rear seats. Can that be removed safely?

 

I saw that, and I was not sure. It is Aluminum, so its not too heavy, however, it looked like a pain to take on/off, and I was hoping for an under an hour thing.
I tried taking out some of the bolts, and then gave up. Lol

 

yea it can be, but it is a JOB it don't want to clear the plastic on the sides of the car, it weighs 7 pounds, not worth it in my opinion

 

Okay thanks, i'm looking for stuff too, but i think you covered it.

Very nice. These need to be stickies

 

Yea

 

A time that's slightly lower due to ripping half your car apart does nothing to impress me... To each is their own but I just don't see a point... My theory is if it's on the car when you drive it daily it should be on the car at the track. Good writeup though!

 

if you use it a lot on the track then that's a different story.

 

Agreed!

 

the rear bar that holds the rear seats is heavy and is removed with 4 bolts. takes less then a min and it weighs like 15 lbs. lol

 

Really, when I looked at it, it was underneath some plastic and such and look difficult to take off.

 

noooooooo mine weighed 7 pounds exactly, and was a heck of alot harder than that to get out, i worked on it for 15 minutes trying to wggle that things out with out messing the plastic up on the sides

**edit** just realized you have a sedan, it may be different

 

i have a backseat delete. but i took out that bar that holds the seats in. there is another 10 pounds or so right there

 

take out the glove box...

 

Make sure you take a **** and add it to the total before going out