put your car on a diet
12-24-2002, 12:41 PM
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Re:put your car on a diet
I used a putty scraper, heat gun, wd-40 on my truck to take the stock sound deadning stuff out. Then I installed dynamat. Just dont use the heat gun WITH the wd-40 you could have a bit of a fire.
01-04-2003, 05:45 PM
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Re:put your car on a diet
The best way to remove the sound deadening tar is to get a bunch of dry ice and ------ the chunks around the floor, let the deadener get really cold, then move the dry ice and start smacking it with a hammer. It comes off in really big clean chunks. I did my whole CRX in a few hours.
Total weight savings was 8-9lbs.
Total weight savings was 8-9lbs.
01-04-2003, 05:50 PM
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Re:put your car on a diet
Ive heard of people cutting out the spare tire well in their cars and then bolting or welding aluminum diamondplate over it in the trunk... is that a dumb idea? How much weight does that save?
my friend did this to his neon, and it saved a lot of wieght, the backend is so light, i can lift the backend up like 3 inch off the ground...
~henry
my friend did this to his neon, and it saved a lot of wieght, the backend is so light, i can lift the backend up like 3 inch off the ground...
~henry
01-05-2003, 01:42 PM
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Re:put your car on a diet
You would be suprised to see the difference .. that much sheet metal is actually quite heavy.. The same amt of area can be covered with alluminum sheet at a fraction of the weight.. To max the gain of this you should do it all or nothing.. Trunk, floor, firewall, inners, e,t,c any place you can replace a "dumb" panel, do it.. By dumb I mean to say non load bearing area's like floors, and trunks.. 
01-05-2003, 02:27 PM
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Re:put your car on a diet
My Rabbit weighs 1800lbs with half a tank of gas and me in it. No spare, no back seat, no package shelf, no stereo. Full carpet, full sound deadening, heavier than stock seats and big brakes.
It was a factory stripper with radio, lighter, rear defrost, and package shelf delete.
It was a factory stripper with radio, lighter, rear defrost, and package shelf delete.
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