CRX Fuel tank weight?
 

Im building my semi-drag car and i want to use a 5 gal fuel cell instead of the stock fuel tank to reduce weight into my '90 CRX, so i need to know how many weight im going to reduce.

Anyone here know the weight from a CRX 88-91 fuel tank?

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320 kilo's

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Weigh it when you rip it out

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Lol it weighs like 20-30 lbs :o

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20 pounds AT MOST

The metal is thin as ----

I got a brand new one from my insurance company, surprised me how light it was actually

fuel cell is pointless

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Ok, any better ideas to reduce weight?

i have an extra CRX hatch i already remove both glasses to put flexiglass on it ;D.

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Door panels, bumper supports, a/c, power steering, basically anything thats not needed. You can do a number under the dash too; hell,cut out half the dash

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Bumper supports, good idea!!, i only wish bumpers dont fall down.

A/C --- done
Power stering ---- done
Eliminate muffler and leave open downpipe only ---- done
remove passenger seat --- done
no rear cover --- done
no extra tire --- done

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get rid of one of your kidneys and one of your eyes cut out some of your intestines some fat off your ass so on so fourth you dont need your toes so those can go your only using half your brain might as well toss out the other half... shave every hair on your body and remmove one of your testicles

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Are you going to be nitpicking on every ounce possible to lose from the car itself? Could always ditch that pass. mirror too. lol

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Not that extreme, i want to see the car as stock as possible

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Rear wiper and motor are decently heavy. Probably outweigh your rear interior!!

Lightweight battery is cheap and easy

Plexiglass rear window is probably the biggest of them all

Cutting down the lard on your ass helps I guess

Did I mention I think removing your cars interior on a stret car is retarded? Just screams poor bastard and draws theft

---- doesnt weight that much, no different than bringing around my school bag

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haha im a poor bastard and i dont have any rear interior. but i also bought it that way, so thats what i tell people when they ask me. i ------- hate giving people rides or having more then one person in my car, so its nice when i got a car with only two seats. not only is it uncomfortable for me but for the passangers when theres more then two people in a two door car. i also do not have a family or kids or any ---- like that so i dont have to have more seats. but mainly im a poor bastard : ). ---- theft if i have no rear interior they can tell that im a crazy bastard buy that ---- i have laying around in my car. if your car is really greasy and ---- under the hood maybe spray some of that off. im sure you will get a pound off lol.

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I have no rear interior in my celica. With hondas I don't think it matters much, but I took about 120lbs of ---- out of the back of my car. Id like to do something with the front seats to make them lighter or change them over. those bitches weigh like 52 pounds each :-X

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ya i dont think you get much weight out of the older hatches and crx's by stripping the rear, a guy on h-t did a write up a long time ago about stripping his 92 hatchback and wieghed each thing he took out rear seats, carpet, sound deading, quater panels, and headliner and piller trim. i calculated 64 pounds that he took out. you can read it in the archives, http://www.honda-tech.com/zerothread/642479 , i just got from my front seats back all taken out and i weighed my car the other day its a 89 std hatchback with the d15 still in it, it was 1,975 pounds. i had some junk but not much and the spare tire still in it. so i could probibly drop another 20 pounds out of it and then my passanger seat real easy. but im happy with under 2000pounds. but now i need a new motor and to turbo this sence im getting rid of my 95 coupe-2550pounds with turbo and b16 in that car full interior.

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get lighter wheels/tires

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on my coupe I did the following.

Removed carpets.

Removed rear seats and pannels

Removed spare tire

Removed AC completely

Relocated battery to the back

Removed power steering system completely and converted to a manual rack.

will be removing the Si dash with the air bag and most of the crap under the dash and putting in a dash from a CX with most of the crap cut out.

Goal is to get this 2400lb beast to about 2000lbs.

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do you know exactly what wieght the car was before you started? would be kinda interesting and you wouldnt want to be dissapointed if you ended up with 2400 pounds lol. i think coupes are suppose to weight 2450~

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OMG this is the most ricey ---- I ever heard.....if your boosting a good 300 hp in a CRX or civic....---- weight
only riceboys remove thier ------- seat and gut an interior.......
get a ------- clue
I hate dumbass kids and thier "weight discussions"
who gives a ---- it will prolly never see a 10 sec pass...... so why gut the interior


Weight doesnt mean a ------- thing when you have the hp and tq to pull it.......
unless its something like a 4000 pounds then youll need well over 300 hp to go anywhere



geez

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with a decent setup, traction is the issue. weight reduction won't help too much, especially when the ---- weighs practically nothing anyway.

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You're a certified retard.

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x2

so you're telling me say a car is 2700 lbs and is stripped down to 2200 you dont think that'd make enough of a difference in a car that you dont care about keeping the interior anyways? Give me a break.

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My 91 HF weighed 2000lbs on the money with a B16 swap and only part of the rear interior. Not that HF's actually came with a lot of rear interior but when I got my car it was all gutted out and I've been getting pieces here and there - the ---- really does weigh next to nothing.

A few more tips to help you....

Like somebody else said get rid of the hatch you currently have, put the one you have with plexi-glass in there and make sure there's no wiper or wiper motor.

If you can find one grab an HF rear bumper support as they are supposedly much lighter than an Si or DX support.

The only other thing that is really heavy in these cars are the seats, you can just replace them with some after market ones - but try and avoid the rice.

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Aint you the same fucktard that was running a loose intake maniflod, wondering why your car was leaking profusely, why it ran like ----, and where the vaccum leaks were coming from? With a background like that, i would keep the ---- talking to a minimum.

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IUnno I was drunk

And i have no clue as to why i asked that on here
your right on that one....

I just see allota kids around here with thier civics and accords with no seat and a stripped interior still get spanked by v6 mustangs and ----...its pathetic

losing weight is good....but not on a 15 sec street car.....
its not gonna make that big of a difference.....unless you go real extreme with it