Off with the Heavy Parts!

Originally posted: 03-22-2011

And the weight starts to shed. 
Disappointingly I won't have enough time to get the car down to minimum weight before I leave for Mineral Wells TX in two days.  But I did get some of it out.

I swapped to the fully gutted doors, replaced the hood with the gutted C/F hood (a very faded, but cheap one).



The picture above is taking a quick weight check to see the difference, then continuing on.

I fully gutted the back seat, carpet and back deck.  I did however leave the speakers in place and hooked up.  They weight less than 1lbs each.  And being that I ran a fair number of ProSolo's, it is nice to have them to hear the announcer.  Which I learned at my first event, can be very valuable when your competition hits a cone and your not aware of it, and hit one later in the course from trying to hard...




The dash is still currently in place.  I didn't want to take on a job involving important wiring with only 2 days to go before an event.  Too many things could go wrong.  I, and my Co-driver who is flying in from North Carolina would be without a car for the weekend.  Not worth the risk. 

The loose wires were capped and zip-tied to the other wires.  Another item on the return from Texas list, is to remove the tar and sound deadening on the floor pan.  A lot of dry ice, scraping and clean-up work is needed to remove it all (including removing the dash), so that will wait till later as well.  It is worth about 25lbs all together.  Worth the time for sure.




The heavy stock Evo Recaro's will have to do for the time being.  I don't have the time to make mounts for the Sparco I have at home right now.  The passenger seat may get removed completely at some point.  Or replaced with something lighter.




I'm going to try to skim some more weight off the vehicle before the trip.  But plans for tomorrow are to cut and fit the new "windows", and then start prepping for the trip down there.  Official final Texas weight will be posted once I weigh in for final runs.  There will likely be more stuff removed once on side it Mineral Wells.


-Mike