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

[Guest loren]

 JoKer']

[quote name='PhatRS said:

remove rear wiper,

/quote]

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...

seriously? that's a new rule?

[Joker]

yep guy I know had to re-fit the wiper on his race WRX for WOF.... could just be the WOF guy...

[Guest loren]

GREAT. yet another pointless retarded rule that serves no purpose. good one NZ. still no cure for cancer I notice.

[Old Skool Subbie]

 JoKer said:

yep guy I know had to re-fit the wiper on his race WRX for WOF.... could just be the WOF guy...

I will enquire when I take my yellow car for a wof next week

[Guest loren]

 Old Skool Subbie']

[quote name='JoKer said:

yep guy I know had to re-fit the wiper on his race WRX for WOF.... could just be the WOF guy...

/quote]

I will enquire when I take my yellow car for a wof next week

cool thanks.

anyone know where to buy slightly concave circles of glass? hmm, anyone got some old John Lennon glasses?

edit: was thinking removing the rear window and putting plastic in place the other day... just wondering

if anyone knows how much structural integrity or stiffness the rear window provides in a wrx sedan? I

know the front windscreen is an integral part.

[Joker]

N/A wrx glass will do trick - BUT I reckon go for WOF 1st maybe to test?

then if fail swap

[gotasuby]

i drove my legacy sedan without rear glass and the roof moves heaps so i wouldn't get rid of it

[Guest]

yea i find if u go to a LTNZ to get a WOF they MAKE u fix your rear wiper mine needed a new blade and he failed me on it i was like wtf

[Guest]

 loren']

[quote name='JoKer said:

yep guy I know had to re-fit the wiper on his race WRX for WOF.... could just be the WOF guy...

/quote]

I will enquire when I take my yellow car for a wof next week

cool thanks.

anyone know where to buy slightly concave circles of glass? hmm, anyone got some old John Lennon glasses?

edit: was thinking removing the rear window and putting plastic in place the other day... just wondering

if anyone knows how much structural integrity or stiffness the rear window provides in a wrx sedan? I

know the front windscreen is an integral part.

there are some regulations around replacing the glass with plastic, i dont beleave it is legal without goin through the motorsport authority prosess.

-smurff

[Guest loren]

I would be going through MSNZ, I already have an auth card for cage etc.

I would be doing it for weight saving, but not at the expense of ridigity...

I should probably check where my cage is welded to the roof before wondering

out loud :

if a warrant expects you to put the rear wiper back, they will also require it to

work, which would mean replacing all the wiring if need be... so would be a

real pain for anyone with a road legal race car.

[PhatRS]

 JoKer']

[quote name='PhatRS said:

remove rear wiper,

/quote]

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...

That does sound retarded cos you can just fit a screen with no hole and accomplish the same thing. Wofs are soooo ghey now.

[Joker]

wonder if they will do the same for wings? and those wee bits of tape ppl use?

you should probably ask your WOF guy as again the rule do change monthly based on feedback like that

[Guest loren]

 PhatRS']

[quote name='PhatRS said:

remove rear wiper,

/quote]

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...

That does sound retarded cos you can just fit a screen with no hole and accomplish the same thing. Wofs are soooo ghey now.

unless they are going to pull the "safety" card, and say that the car is less safe than when it had the rear wiper, and putting in a window without a hole is still less safe.

[Guest]

 loren said:

I would be going through MSNZ, I already have an auth card for cage etc.

I would be doing it for weight saving, but not at the expense of ridigity...

I should probably check where my cage is welded to the roof before wondering

out loud :

if a warrant expects you to put the rear wiper back, they will also require it to

work, which would mean replacing all the wiring if need be... so would be a

real pain for anyone with a road legal race car.

good ur doin it properly

ive just order the gear to do my windows in plastic hahaha

want to get that done before i get the cage.

-smurff

[Joker]

I heard my guy mutter it was madness at the time he failed it for such a trivial matter but yea - if it was OEM it should be in working order was his comment

[Guest loren]

 smurff']

[quote name='loren said:

I would be going through MSNZ, I already have an auth card for cage etc.

I would be doing it for weight saving, but not at the expense of ridigity...

I should probably check where my cage is welded to the roof before wondering

out loud :

if a warrant expects you to put the rear wiper back, they will also require it to

work, which would mean replacing all the wiring if need be... so would be a

real pain for anyone with a road legal race car.

/quote]

good ur doin it properly

ive just order the gear to do my windows in plastic hahaha

want to get that done before i get the cage.

-smurff

do tell... what u getting, where from and how much

[Guest]

well get u the details tomorro, im off to bed now hahah

-smurff

[PhatRS]

 loren']

[quote name='PhatRS said:

remove rear wiper,

/quote]

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...

That does sound retarded cos you can just fit a screen with no hole and accomplish the same thing. Wofs are soooo ghey now.

unless they are going to pull the "safety" card, and say that the car is less safe than when it had the rear wiper, and putting in a window without a hole is still less safe.

Its only really less safe when reversing so I cant see the issue and I would hazzard a guess that the rear wiper is a factory option anyway, plain rear screen....how can that be less safe if its factory on the same car?

[Old Skool Subbie]

 smurff']

[quote name='JoKer said:

yep guy I know had to re-fit the wiper on his race WRX for WOF.... could just be the WOF guy...

/quote]

I will enquire when I take my yellow car for a wof next week

cool thanks.

anyone know where to buy slightly concave circles of glass? hmm, anyone got some old John Lennon glasses?

edit: was thinking removing the rear window and putting plastic in place the other day... just wondering

if anyone knows how much structural integrity or stiffness the rear window provides in a wrx sedan? I

know the front windscreen is an integral part.

there are some regulations around replacing the glass with plastic, i dont beleave it is legal without goin through the motorsport authority prosess.

-smurff

The SVX has 2 wee rear side passenger windows. Almost big enought to put your head thru it :

Any way could I replace those for plasic?

all the other glass will stay as glass

[Guest]

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

[You could remove interior panels and replace with carbon fibre plates?]

[Guest]

to save weight you would just leave of any unnesassery panals, wouldnt bother replacing with carbon unless it was say the drivers and passangers door cards, which are required i beleave.

( if someone was able to sit there, if no seats in the back, then they wouldnt be required )

-smurff