Corsa_1800_SRi
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How much weight rufly have you taken out and what was removed?
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Ben G
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girlfriend. alot of stones 
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Corsa_1800_SRi
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lol
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AK
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the spare wheel and tool kit are the biggest savers.
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Jake
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not sure on weight but i took out rear seats/doorcards boot plastics, spare wheel, rooflining, pillar trim, tar sound deadening and didnt notice any difference. If you want to know what the car performs like when stripped out, remove the spare wheel and rear back rest. Everything else weighs fuck all
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AK
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the sound-deadning is very heavy when you get it all together.
Jake - if you didnt notice a difference with the car stripped i think you must be quite unsensitive
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Corsa_1800_SRi
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From the net mine is
Weight without Driver (KG) : 1090
If i took the rear seats out, spare, tool kit, rear door panels. What you think i could get it down to as ive heard the rear seats are pretty heavy
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AK
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maybe 1060
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Jake
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I did notice a couple of things - the rear didnt feel as planted and became quite twitchy. Too much toe-in as standard probably didnt help with that, though.
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dan_c4rsa
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every LITTLE helps lol
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Corsa_1800_SRi
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quote:
Originally posted by AK
maybe 1060
What am i looking at removing to get near 900kg at least??
Its a corsa c too not b if that helps
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Rob H
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quote:
Originally posted by AK
maybe 1060
SO you only gain 30kg - about the same if not less than a full tank of fuel compared to an almost empty one, which personally i've never noticed a difference between  .
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AK
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GAIN
LOSE!!!!
A car is alot more lively when empty of fuel.... every car i've ever had (bar the RR) behaved this way. The skyline is about 60kg lighter when nearing empty!!!
I have no idea on the C...
but on my 2nd B (the green one) all of the interior was binned, metal brackets ginded off, dash removed, light weight seats, wheels... it must have been around 850.
Its not easy to lose that weight but it DOES make a hell of a difference
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Rob H
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quote:
Originally posted by Corsa_1800_SRi
What am i looking at removing to get near 900kg at least??
That's about 150kg off the standard weight  .
Good luck
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Corsa_1800_SRi
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I reckon i could loose more than 30k maybe tho takin out what i said above
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Corsa_1800_SRi
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quote:
Originally posted by Rob H
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Originally posted by Corsa_1800_SRi
What am i looking at removing to get near 900kg at least??
That's about 150kg off the standard weight .
Good luck
Ill get there
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Jake
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consider why you are stripping it out before you start grinding off pieces of metal etc. Dont do it because it looks cool, it doesnt. It also isn't very comfortable for a daily driver
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Rob H
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quote:
Originally posted by AK
GAIN
LOSE!!!!
A car is alot more lively when empty of fuel.... every car i've ever had (bar the RR) behaved this way. The skyline is about 60kg lighter when nearing empty!!!
I have no idea on the C...
but on my 2nd B (the green one) all of the interior was binned, metal brackets ginded off, dash removed, light weight seats, wheels... it must have been around 850.
Its not easy to lose that weight but it DOES make a hell of a difference
You know what i meant  .
like i say, personally i don't feel a difference, other people may. Thing to consider though is by taking all the stuff out the back, it'll sound louder than it did before, so IMO at least like it or not, placebo effect comes into it  .
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AK
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yup.... if you are fond of your car, and like a stereo etc DONT strip it.
My corsa had no fans, no heater matrix, no dash, no sound-deadning, no boot lifts... no anything really. I even ripped the arches off and drilled holes in the bumpers of the green one
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Corsa_1800_SRi
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quote:
Originally posted by jake
consider why you are stripping it out before you start grinding off pieces of metal etc. Dont do it because it looks cool, it doesnt. It also isn't very comfortable for a daily driver
Am doing it because i want to be as fast as possible b4 the new engine goes in next year and the cage.
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Rob H
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Originally posted by Corsa_1800_SRi
I reckon i could loose more than 30k maybe tho takin out what i said above
Yeah that's probably about right, not much more than 30 i'd imagine though, but i've never weighed them so wouldnt know . They're the easy parts though, and they weigh alot. Finding the other 120kg is where the fun starts.
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Corsa_1800_SRi
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quote:
Originally posted by AK
yup.... if you are fond of your car, and like a stereo etc DONT strip it.
My corsa had no fans, no heater matrix, no dash, no sound-deadning, no boot lifts... no anything really. I even ripped the arches off and drilled holes in the bumpers of the green one
Gona keep the dash prob get it flocked, front door cards in carbon fibre but have holes for front speakers thats all i need
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Corsa_1800_SRi
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quote:
Originally posted by Rob H
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Originally posted by Corsa_1800_SRi
I reckon i could loose more than 30k maybe tho takin out what i said above
Yeah that's probably about right, not much more than 30 i'd imagine though, but i've never weighed them so wouldnt know . They're the easy parts though, and they weigh alot. Finding the other 120kg is where the fun starts.
Ill make it a 3 wheeler
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AK
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120kg..... you'll have to start on the body panels, inner door skins, rear boot frame.... serious stuff
Junk all the electrics, fit lexan windows
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AK
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tray and save on things that will make it perform better too... light weight brakes and wheels 
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