Spare tire and jack?

You building a drag car?

John

 

well. i mean.. im still gonna drive it whenever i want to... it will be completely streetable... just gutted.. and i forgot that the tire and jack were out before i got it.. ha... i mean.. besides carbon fiber hood and trunk i dont know what else there could be.. i already run 15" pro stars.. that saved a lot... but yes... this car is strictly for 1/4 mile.. i dont care how it handles around curves or anything.. im not a speed demon when i drive so i dont mind poking around a little more just to get some weight out of the car... but i will be buying another vehicle soon so im not down.. like i am right now because i broke the rear end last weekend and im having to hitch rides till i get it back together. lol

 

buy a odyssey battery, weights about 14 lbs, buy a tubular k-member, put a lightweight spool in the rear, remove front and rear bumper supports, strange race brakes. but the carpet ain't gonna make a difference, leave it in, you don't need to remove any panels at all. total panels and carpet maybe will save you 10lbs if you are lucky which will not make a difference what so ever. Also you can do a aluminum driveshaft.

 

Tim... amazingly enought... the carpet weighs over 30 pounds with the sound deadinging and padding... when i took my cars interior all out (everything) but dash, and stock powered drivers seat... I lost over 150 pounds. head liner is still in the car too... but gutting it like mine is not very fun to drive on the street, but i got mine below 2990 pounds with 5 gallons of fuel a bottle of nitrous in it and STOCK k member... i am hoping for 2850 race ready without me this next season...

 

i never put the panels back in from where i painted them... so its not gonna cause me any problems to have it out. and i been ridin like that since thanksgiving so im used to it.. and yes the carpet and all panels do weigh about 30-35 lbs... and just like some of you said the back seat doesnt weigh much. my back seat, foam panel and trunk carpet weighed 52lbs..... i know im gonna buy a k member soon.. thinkin about usin my tax money to build botom end and throw a bigger shot on it.. lol. i think ima pull the bumper supports out next though... and like i said.. i dont care how it handles.. i want it to hook and get to the other end faster than before... lol... and a lot of weight reduction is free.. my ole lady loves the racing scene so she doesnt care at all about the car being gutted, she understands the beauty of it... ha

 

i hear ya there. i have heard some bad snapping and poping at the track when i launched hard on radial. it sounded like it snapped the front winsheild, but the sound was coming from all over the car.

 

yeah.. i heard a very loud pop last weekend at the track... it was the torque bitch slapping my 31 spline differential in its mouth and knocking all the teeth loose!!! ha

 

well i didn't say the sound deadning material i said the carpet. But hey what do i know, my car weighs in at a wopping 2850 lol

 

well i will agree that the carpet alnone would be like 5 punds... but too much work to pull the sound deading off it for a car that goes on a trailer and back off of one... haha

 

just me but taking all that off so you can have a car that you think is a race car that you will daily drive on the street really doesn't have point. I say enjoy the comforts, i wish i did. Squeeking and cracking and popping and all that gets annoying after a while.

 

see thats what i am saying, removing the carpet, and a few rear panels might be 10lbs if you are lucky, so i think someone should remove the my wrong wrong video

 

What about the smog stuff like the evap system?

 

that and A/C crap can weight over 100 pounds if im not mistaken...

 

I weighed all the **** I pulled out of my car and it weighed about 150-160lbs. Back seat and brackets, carpet and padding from trunk and whatnot, spare and jack, and about 20lbs of bolts and misc junk I had in the car. I was surprised it all added up to be that much, seemed like it would all add up to maybe 50lbs.

 

im not trying to make it a race trailer queen... it will be trailered to the track from now on. i learned my lesson from that last weekend... the reason i said race car is because people call gutted cars race cars... i drove my car without any of the creature comforts like carpet and all and i didnt really have a problem with it.. yeah its not pretty but i dont care about pretty... what all smog stuff is there to pull out? im not takin my ac off.. lol. i still want that..

 

I P/Md you with a link for removing the evap system.. Didnt want to post it here because it is a link to another mustang forum

 

pm it to me pleasee

 

PM sent

 

As info. that is for the 05+ mustangs, but I would think it would be similar to the 99-04 mustangs.??

 

i was about to say... i saw that it was for an 05+... from the way it talks it it between the spare tire well and the gas tank? there is nothing there on 99-04s unless im mistaken

 

Your EVAP is in your fender wells, but is about the same right?

 

yes

 

fender well? which one? have you fooled with this matt?

 

its mainly in the passenger side... i can take all the pictures in the world... as im pulling EVERYTHING out of my car except the brakes... no more wiring and what not.. .just going to make it so the brake lights and what not to work... no more computer and all that...

 

what you puttin in it?

 

351 based carbed motor with a small shot of gas (at least a 200) with a stalled and braked C4

 

so you makin it a race car huh? i think with my tax money im gonna forge mine and put a big shot on it.. to see if i can take it to the 10s... ha

 

if i was doing weight reduction i would do as follows.

Tubular k member - helps with weight and handling so its a win win
ac delete - it never gets extremely hot in wa
nice racing seats up front
pro stars

with all that done you could shave a couple hundred pounds, i wouldn't strip my interior i would rather not have a uncomfortable rattling and loud car to drive around in.

 

with all that done i'd be lucky to be back at stock weight. the supercharger, intercooler and piping, and subframes add up i'm sure.

 

i have all of the stated things besides the ac delete and k member. which i will not do an ac delete.. black in 102 degree weather is not nice.. even with the windows down