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K guys, i have a 93 si coupe, big heavy fully loaded pig, now im also a big heavy loaded pig so i need to put one of us on a diet, i now have bought a 91 si as a daily driver so i no longer have to worry about rear seats (kids) and power windows (wife) so i can really get this thing down a few pounds, what im wondering is how far i can go and how much weight can i ditch? Can the motor for the power roof be removed? Is it a huge deal to convert to manual windows, can i dump all the power steering stuff and just cap the lines at the rack? The other question is with the rear seat out does that let the rear of the car flex and should i install a tie bar at the back? Any suggestions would be appreciated, thanks in advance.....

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i took everything out of my accord i had. a 96. no heater core, ac, carpet, seats. i only had one seat and a steering wheel. and i didn't have to put a tie bar or anything. u can even scrape up the sound dedner ---- under the carpet. looks like tar. thats weighs alot lol

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Funny that i have heard that before but i have had my carpet up a couple of times and no tar stuff anywhere, i dunno if it's just a Canada thing but yah, just shiny paint..my buddies hatch was the same, northing anywhere...odd, any idea how much weight you took off? Im thinking of even pulling the roof out and just tack welding a patch there, im going to loose all the door supports, hood supports, latch, trunk supports, rebar's, i want to keep a radio and two speakers, and the dash, im hoping that's it, im just wondering what a realistic goal for weight would be, things like washer fluid resevoir i dont need, i will keep the heater cause It gets way cold some morning in the spring and fall, but yah, anything else i can think of will go....

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hope the ---- you dont get hit, otherwise you're done.

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This is the easiest way to shave off a few good lbs from your car, if you are willing to sacrafice a few things offcourse.

1) Spare tire and jack(only put them back in when you are leaving town and wont be local for a while, they are good to have)
2) AC, not just the pump, EVERYTING, connectors, wiring, the aluminum hoses that go to the firewall.
3) Power steering pump, hoses, resevoir.
4) Carptet, the carpet is quite heave on a car, you can replace it with secions of Black Astroturf(the stuff you use for backyards it comes in green, black, brown and other colors, about 50cents a square foot)
5) useless engine plastics, inner fender plastics
6)if you wanna go all out, remove the sound shield glued to the floor, this may take a while but its a good 15lbs of rubber glued to the floor.
7)when going to the track, remove the rear seats and pass side front seat, that loses about 15lbs as well

In total you can probably shave off 100-150 lbs of ----, basically that is like removing 1 person from your car, and we all know what it feels like when there is 1 extra person sitting in the car.

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Im 6'4 and 475pnds, in that car if i get hit im done anyways.....

Well i wont be taking the car long distances anymore anyways so tire and jack not needed, carpet just smells funny, so out it will come, and the car doesnt have ac, so that helps, now if i cap the rack at the lines and dump all the pump and lines and ---- it shouldnt hurt anything right? So 100- 150 pnds is what i can expect then?

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if you do everything above, yeah about 75 lbs since you dont have AC,as for steering, it wont hurt anything, my civic had power steering and I took everything out and its been fine for over a year.
I have my interior in right now, I just take it out when going to the track. so yeah, try this, when you have all of the above taken out, try to lift it all, Its gonna be heavy as hell. the biggest weight is the AC pump, the power steering, the sound shield, and the passenger side seat, door pannels dont really weigh much, maybe 1lb each so its not worth taking them out, I like looks as well unless i'm building a race car then it dont matter. carpet and underpadding will weigh around 15 lbs, you say your carpets smell, meaning they are dirty and there is moisture, so the undepading will most likely be wet if you live in thoes kind of conditions.

Hope this helps.

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Thanks man, yah that helps, yep, carpet smells, just old car smell, well with my weight in this wreck it's gonna take alot to make it a "normal" weight......

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I'm not trying to be a dick but maybe you should be more worried about putting yourself on a diet 475lbs is not healthy

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Im not fat, im big boned....yah yah, i know, im workin on it, no time to exercise, to much family guy on tv.....

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we took the support bars off out hatch and got rear ended. now the car is for sell in the classif. section here lol

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yeah definately, and maybe you should invest in something bigger and torqueyer, a little 1.6 to 2.0l honda engine isnt q

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Yah thats' pretty funny....well what do these wrecks weigh fully loaded(no ac) anyways? Im sure with me in it i outweigh a lincoln.......

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well, that's fukin loud, pulled out the rear seats, all the ---- in my trunk, found a suede coat in there, soaking wet...holy ----, musta weighed 30pnds, looked like a dead deer....i dont even know who's fukin coat it was or how it got there...spare tire, TWO jacks, why i dont know, cars pulls like a raped ape now, but ----, it' sso loud....brutal loud, so not sure if i will leave the seat out or not, puleld the rear spoiler off and now it's raining and the trunk is fuill of water, so all that time and effort, not to mention a morning of 8 am beer drinking to entice a friend into giving me a hand, and now i want to put the thing back together....2'75 exaust and magnaflow fart can, plus some holes at rear quarters, holy ----, yah dont do that, waaaaaaaaay to loud...on the plus side took the wife for a drive, she swears as long as i have the car " in peices" she wont ever get in it again, she thinks it's too loud and smelly, hmmm, maybe i should just get some ear plugs and drive it anyways???

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As far as your weight goes.. if you want to lose it you will.

My uncle was a little lighter than you (460), same height... he has made a drastic change in his diet and exercise regiment, he also had his stomach stapled.. that was like two years ago, now he is at 230 pounds ;)

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Yah, just gotta put my head in it is all...or say ---- this honda stuff and do a 60's impala with an ls1 and t/t .....that sounds almost easier and a ton more fun....now thatw ould haul my fat ass around all day....

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Heh.

You are aware that a stock 4G Si passenger seat alone weighs in at 45 lbs?

Whereas that rubber sound deadener material weighs in at 15 ounces for an hour's worth of hassling and $10 in dry ice.

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Yah once i got the carpet out and actually looked there is that sound deadener all over, it was just painted the same color as the car, i left it there, way to much work to take it off....the back of the car sits like a truck now, all the ---- out of the trunk and these b&g cheapass lowering springs, looks like a hillbilly 84 monte carlo with big ass cragar's on the back....i miss the 80's.....

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I miss the 90's.

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now i feel old....

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I just turned 30. You still feel old?

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32, yep.....

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18 for life.

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I'm settling for saggy old 22 y/o strippers these days. :-[

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well if you are worried about losing 100lbs off your car for better e/ts i would just recommand not having such a gutless car :)

100lbs pig wooop if you got some grunt in the engine compartment

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400 whp 1700 lbs versus 400 whp 1600 lbs.

The difference becomes the stuff of masturbation. Google one of those ET calculators and see what I mean.

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1700 - 10.337
1600 - 10.130

Not much, but enough.

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I wanna see a pic. you sound like a big guy. If you do remove your PS pump, and just leave the lines and crap, the steering rack will eventually dry out and crack and crap. You can get around this by swapping in an old CRX's rack that didn't come with p/s. because if not then you will probably have to do it in the end anyway's :-\

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You wanna see a pic??? Wait, i get it, your a chub chaser.....i feel honoured...yah, i wasnt sure how the rack would survive, now you mentioned it would dry out, i was thinking if i removed all teh crap, lines etc but capped the rack while it was full??? That would keep it wet no?

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----, im 6'3 230lbs and i can have about an inch on each side of my shoulder going threw door ways :\

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Yah i had to have the seat moved down an inch, then moved backa couple of inches, "normal" people sit in teh car and it feels like a fighter plane cause you sit way way deep in it, and a four door? Coundnt get in on if i wanted too....