What can you remove to lighten car but still stay road legal?

[Old Skool Subbie]

What can you remove from a car to lighten it but still keep it road legal?

[Old Skool Subbie]

Maybe I should make this easyer... What cant you remove?

[Guest loren]

can't remove windscreen.

can replace other glass but need authority card.

door cards adjacent to occupants must stay.

that'a all i can think of.

[pl0x]

can remove carpet & sound deading

[dubbedup]

Put smaller window washer water holders in, remove all extra bolts, theres quite a few if you start looking, all aircon system - incl all the under dash bits, stereo related bits, all excess wiring, depending on car - rear boot linging/carpet/sound deadening, thats my usaual, plus what is said above.

[Glen]

A 'No fat chicks' sticker might help.

[Old Skool Subbie]

lol ;D

[Jammasta]

How light do you realistically want to go.

Iv'e seen alsorts of crazy lightening threads on the net, mainly on hondas, where they go to the extreme of drilling the insides out of non essential bolts.

For me i'd lose 15kg of my ass

Dave: Hey fatty, you wanna know how to lose 10kg of ugly useless fat

Turtle: yeh sure

Dave: cut of your head hhahahahaha

Turtle: fuck you dave, that hurt.

Dave: hahahahhahaha

[pl0x]

omg! drill out bolts?? lol hope they give it a vacuam before they race as thats gana save 10 grams aswell

[Guest loren]

saw an insane thread on nasioc with this guy who replaced a lot of bolts and brackets with cable ties and velcro.

his radiator was cable tied into the car, his battery was held in with vecro... all kinds of other crazy sh1t... he got a lot of abuse.

[pl0x]

i accept some good quality cable ties (not $2 shop crap)

but vecro lol??

[DRFVDR]

there is a reason why most professional racers are skinny little dudes

[Guest loren]

 pl0x said:

i accept some good quality cable ties (not $2 shop crap)

but vecro lol??

cable ties get hard and brittle in the engine bay and will not hold up in a crash.

[pl0x]

 loren']

[quote name='pl0x said:

i accept some good quality cable ties (not $2 shop crap)

but vecro lol??

/quote]

cable ties get hard and brittle in the engine bay and will not hold up in a crash.

lmfao if you crash with your car held together by cable ties, i wouldnt hold to much hope

but yea i get your point of view

[Guest]

yea, cable ties have there place... not to hold on ur doors etc hahah

but they do have the uses

-smurff

[nt_a_foz]

 smurff said:

yea, cable ties have there place... not to hold on ur doors etc hahah

but they do have the uses

-smurff

lol imagine how wonky theyd be when you opened your door haha..

would be quiet a funny site lol..

cable ties to hold bumper on ftw ..those shity factory clips last 5 mins whne you take them out

[Guest]

my front bumper is held on with cable ties, i need teh flex they give wen there not tighted right up, to get over driveways etc without breaking the bumper

-smurff

[Johnnynz]

You can remove rear seats so long as you also take out seatbelts can you not?

Also the whole drilling out of bolts seems very popular on race bikes. Got a mate who races a 400cc and almost every bolt on the damn thing is drilled out.

Pretty crazy if you ask me, but then again after taking his bike around Manfield for a lap a few weeks back I think hes nuts anyway.

[Joker]

drilling bolts?

 nt_a_foz']

[quote name='smurff said:

yea, cable ties have there place... not to hold on ur doors etc hahah

but they do have the uses

-smurff

/quote]

lol imagine how wonky theyd be when you opened your door haha..

would be quiet a funny site lol..

cable ties to hold bumper on ftw ..those ****y factory clips last 5 mins whne you take them out

bugger that you dont even need doors to be legal....

[DRFVDR]

or boot lid but u do need a bonnet (goddamn predestian safety if they would keep of the foot path then we wouldnt have an issue)

[Guest STiEVO]

haha i was expecting so much more from this thread lol. im still laughing at the cable guy

[Guest]

if it was a drag... no driver? remote control the car?

-smurff

[leggyfreak]

 Johnnynz said:

You can remove rear seats so long as you also take out seatbelts can you not?

need a cert for reaer seats and seatbelts out my mate did it in his car and went to get a warrent and didn't pas cuz he didn't have it on his cert

[PhatRS]

Think you have to register the car as a 2 seater.

Theres also: the jack, spare wheel, get a lighter battery, lighter seats, smaller alternator, smaller fuel cell, fibreglass panels, remove rear wiper, remove sound deadening, remove bonnet and boot catches and use pins or Aerocatches just to name a few others. Some of these will require certs others wont and Id probly try most of those before drilling out bolts

[Joker]

 PhatRS said:

remove rear wiper,

no you cant - needs to be there for WOF if it was originally there (last months rule - may have changed this month)

or get rear screen with no hole...