fastback stripped seats back - savings weighed

[pressure]

Hey, forgive me if this info is repetitive, but I just wanted to post up some (fairly) exact numbers since I have them. I stripped everything out of a 90 fastback behind the rear seats except for the stock speakers and their housings, and left all wiring alone. Here is what I got, rounded to the nearest half pound.

Cargo and back of rear seat carpeting, sound deadening material: 9.5 lbsCarpeted formed and plastic interior pieces: 9 lbsSpare and spare cover: 27 lbsTotal: 45.5 lbs

Everything was easy except the sound deadener, it took about 2.5-3 hours for all of it, and I wasn't in a hurry. After I wiped everything down and before the sound deadener came out, it acutally looked much better than it did previously, although the carpet was pretty nasty and much of the plastic scratched. Next is the rest of the horribly colorful interior carpeting and sound deadener, I'll post the totals on those when I get there.

[HachiRoku]

i would also think that removing weight from the front of the car would help to....so you maintain a good front-to-rear weight ratio...if I remember correctly, 240SX comes from the factory with somewhere in the range of 51:49 or something like that...likely lighter in the back if my numbers are wrong

[red240ne]

did you use a heat gun to get the sound deadening stuff out? and if so...would it take a 750 degrees max. or 1100deg. max. heat gun?

[drift-sx]

is that sound deadaning stuff that hard tar? if so what you can do is buy this stuff its like liquid nitrogen in a can its not very expensive or anyhting jsut gotta know where to find it whatever you spray it the hit it with a hammer and it all omes out rather nicely

[pressure]

No heat gun or anything glamorous. Just a blow dryer, paint scraper, and hammer. Although it was a pain in the ***, it ended up being a lot easier than I expected. It is the hard tar, which explains why it's so heavy.I want to remove weight from the front too but there's less to remove in the front of the car, at least without tossing the bumper reinforcement or AC\heater. An Odysee battery will chop 15-20 pounds out, but the strut tower bar will add a couple back. I have a question to anyone that cares - is it possible that taking weight from the center of the car would through off the polar moment enough to harm handling more than it would help? I understand that any difference would be minute but every difference adds up.

[Jamison]

I just removed the complete interior as well and here are my results form a 90 hatch:

sound deading tar: 30lbsall seatbelts: 27lbscarpet, interior panels: 17lbsrear speakers w/ mounts: 6lbscardboard cover for spare: 6lbsrear seats: 18lbsrear windshield wiper: 3lbs(didnt weigh the spare)

total: 107lbs

I will take pics tomorrow in the light of what it looks like. The only peices of the interior that I will be keeping are the stock dash and center console. Tomorrow I will be removing the wiring harness and running it between the skeleton of the car and the body of the car so you cant see it from inside and I am also removing the antenna with the wire for it. I will take pics of that as well.

Just thought I would share that for anyone else who might be wondering what the interior weighs.

[red240ne]

woohoo, 100lbs, now AC assembly for maybe another 50lbs... where are other weight reduction possibilities?? besides replacing parts with lighter ones.