General What can i take out of the car thats unnecasary?

[Diwiak]

hm wont risk driving without spare wheel and some basic tools, i want my stereo with 6x9s in parcel shelf and loads of air freshners and flashlight and air horn and electric windows and central locking and also want all seats inside (all this weight something)

but if u want go this way throw everything out except dashboard and drivers seat, make sideexhaust, remove rear wiper....

 

[Pep0]

Well there is plenty - I add approx 12% to the cars kerb weight

Anyone tried doing alluminium body panels like wings and bonnet?

You could do the bonnet and tail gate in glass fibre, but you would need a large dry garage/lockup. This would allow a nice air bleed in the bonnet, and an integrated spoiler for the tail gate.

My front bumper is way too low already...

Noel

 

[GoBe]

Stripping out the Cinq of all but the dash and front seats with a bracing bar across the rear saves about 30kg or 3.5% to 4%, which is what £100 to £150 worth of power increase compared to a sports exhaust.

 

[jnoiles]

Well there is plenty - I add approx 12% to the cars kerb weight

Anyone tried doing alluminium body panels like wings and bonnet?

I've got the doors, bonnet, hatch/boot off mine at the moment. I'll be commencing the metal surgery to lighten them very shortly. I'll post back with pics when its done so you can see what I took out and how much weight was saved.

The bonnet hinges and catches alone are heavy. I've pulled them and I'm using 4 x bonnet pins instead. Stainless steel ones OMP pins were something like 4 quid, or 6 quid maybe? Cheap at any rate.

 

[Brooky]

You need some of this:

That will help reduce unsprung mass

A nice lightweight racing battery


And a nice carbon seat, not as light as my magnums, but its alot comfier.

Carnt wait to get all these bits fitted, Ill be making a few fibreglass pannels and no dash, just a digidash or similar, maybe a couple of other gauges

 

[Emm]

hm wont risk driving without spare wheel and some basic tools

i just carry an AA membership and a towing eye

 

[Emm]

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And a nice carbon seat, not as light as my magnums, but its alot comfier.

thats a nice lookin seat

 

[jnoiles]

You need some of this

Are they the powerlite or midilite calipers? Have you found a bracket or are you fabricating some/having some fabricated?

Carnt wait to get all these bits fitted, Ill be making a few fibreglass pannels and no dash, just a digidash or similar, maybe a couple of other gauges

Curious, what dash are you thinking of? I'm seriously tempted by the Race Technologies dash-2. It works brilliantly with the DL1 data logger.

 

[rallycinq]

Was at a sprint on Sunday. First event of the new season and load of drivers there talking about all the modifications they'd done over the winter to make the car faster.

Most of them not strangers to many many pies.

Cheers

SPD

 

[CLXCraig]

Were they the drivers then? i thought these things run as a team. Some one preps the car/keeps it going. Some skinny youth hurtles it around a course?

 

[RuiG]

Carnt wait to get all these bits fitted, Ill be making a few fibreglass pannels and no dash, just a digidash or similar, maybe a couple of other gauges

I wonder how much your Cento is worth/costing right now

 

[rallycinq]

Were they the drivers then? i thought these things run as a team. Some one preps the car/keeps it going. Some skinny youth hurtles it around a course?

Nup, I'm talking about serious racing cars being driven by guys who need a crow bar to get their carcasses out of the super slim fit race seats.

£16K on a bike engined, flappy paddle gear change 7 alike, and probably 16 stone too.

Cheers

SPD

 

[rallycinq]

If its was a BMW or Audi, you could remove the indicator stalk and those annoying orange lights at each corner.

Cheers

SPD

 

[CLXCraig]

Are the back glass ina Sei flat or curved slightly? if flat you can replace with 5/6mm perspex. should shave a lot of weight. Same with any windows really.. would mean no heated rear screen if you do the whole lot.

 

[CLXCraig]

If its was a BMW or Audi, you could remove the indicator stalk and those annoying orange lights at each corner.

Cheers

SPD

Orange things on the corner of a BMW.. what is this you talk of. I've never seena BMW driver indicate before

 

[rallycinq]

Orange things on the corner of a BMW.. what is this you talk of. I've never seena BMW driver indicate before

Most owners forget to specify 'indicator stalk' on the options list.

Cheers

SPD

 

[ycming]

i just carry an AA membership and a towing eye

Am pretty sure if u don't carry a spare, AA won't tow you

Ming

 

[Renrut]

flat tyre + towing = funked wheel

 

[randomizered]

Lots of modern cars don't have a spare, so it wouldn't be an issue. They'd put you on a low loader

 

[ycming]

Lots of modern cars don't have a spare, so it wouldn't be an issue. They'd put you on a low loader

oh ahh good point! As new car don't even come with spare now. Not sure how they would treat a car that suppose to have a spare tho...

Ming