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Ways of reducing the weight of our cars

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fuscobal:
After the battery I will concentrate on seats + wheels + brakes and I will probably stop here. The savings made until now would be :

- subwoofer + enclosure > 34.5Kg
- spare wheel + tools > 17.5Kg
- MDF sheet over the amplifiers > 8.2Kg
- Rear seats > 27.5Kg
- Reinforcement bar > 1.8Kg

TOTAL until now : 89.5Kg

Next :

- Battery > 15Kg
- S3 hubs (on the way) > 4Kg
- Recaro Poleposition > 28Kg (OEM seats are 26Kg/piece with leather and heating)
- Brakes > 18Kg
- Wheels > 12Kg

TOTAL : 77Kg

berg:
if you save a lot of weight and then increase torque/bhp, is there anywhere where you could have a "weigh in" and work out the bhp/ton of your car after carrying out the above? weight watchers for cars?

would be interesting to compare with the factory figure

fuscobal:
Ok, just installed the S3 hubs. See the whole stoy here :

http://www.golfmkv.com/forums/showthread.php?t=136174&page=2

- subwoofer + enclosure > 34.5Kg
- spare wheel + tools > 17.5Kg
- MDF sheet over the amplifiers > 8.2Kg
- Rear seats > 27.5Kg
- Reinforcement bar > 1.8Kg
- S3 hubs (on the way) > 3Kg

TOTAL until now : 92.5Kg

Next :

- Battery > 15Kg
- Recaro Poleposition > 28Kg (OEM seats are 26Kg/piece with leather and heating)
- Brakes > 18Kg
- Wheels > 12Kg

TOTAL : 73Kg

Hurdy:
165kg out of the car is no mean achievement.

I also went with the Autotech lightweight anti-roll bars which claim to save weight too. Not cheap though!

http://www.jbsautodesigns.co.uk/product/371/lightweight-anti-roll-bar-front-25mm

fuscobal:
What exactly do you mean by "no mean achievement" ? How much time do you think this weight reduction could shave of a 2'18'' time on Hungaroring ?

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