Bill - let us know if the combined SNWMAPS Angle Grinder, Jigsaw and Spotweld Drill squad needs mobilising, although I will warn you that they turn up on Sunday mornings, smelling of curry.
I iz thinkin you needz to cut a couple of coils off your springs to slam it on its ass, fit a turbo timer, a boost pipe, a jap-style slash cut dtm titanium backbox, a flamer kit, maybe a fishtank in the dash and a gyros grill in the hatch..maybe do the headlining in split bamboo...and beads man, you gotta have some beads on the seats, that would be well wicked innit, aii ! Edited by: RobT
My 1.9 8v Mk2: 980kg with bucket seats but still running all interior other than rear bench Mates 2.0l 16v Mk2: 978kg running two buckets, totally stripped interior bar the dash plus a roll cage. For me when you add the roll cage you add a lot of weight, obviously the moment you roll you make it worth while as the roof does not cave in. However it certainly says something. Weight taken from Mallory weigh bridge
LOL bring it on I say... I need all the help I can get.. poor ickle ibiza wont know whats going to hit it! and to think this was my sensible road car back in 2001 when I bought it spangly and new.. and to think also that I could'nt bring myself to gut the jetta, when I am doing all this to the ibiza.. mustr have bumped me head. bring on the pasty squad. bacon butties, coffee & tea supplied.
Rob/Chris/Bill That's made me chuckle Wayward, welcome to the forum, no flaming, you're spot on - corner weighting is on my 'to do' list this year
My cage weighs about 25kgs. I reckon the weight you add is offset by the extra stiffness you gain. I know bolt in cages don't add so much stiffness but my Golf II felt completely different after the cage went in and its a bolt in.
Yep, that's me on outside 1 and 2 - the larger vid shows me in the golf and jim in the blue locoblade passing ju's 205 and the 911 , the second video shows that we gained a bit during that session.
As most of us drive front wheel drive cars, less weight would give you less traction I would have thought. As mentioned before, the best thing would be to have a well setup car to take advantage of the lesser weight and to aid in traction. I think weight distribution factors are something to consider when die hard weight stripping.
Just for practical info , weight doesn't reduce the traction critically, unless you've got ridiculous power through the front wheels.
Just some 1/4 mile times from my own experience. my old driver was 17.6 to 17.8 with interior 17.2 to 17.4 without interior. You could take off another 0.2 by changing the shocks stiffness and tyre pressures which got me a 17.0. Funny story. Heading down pod one sunday. Stripped out the interior previous night. Get there, sign on, go back to set car up. Go to plug the tyre pump in and realise the cigarette lighter socket is in the garage at home with the rest of the centre console.
My cigarette lighter was one of the few things I left in when stripped mine. Wanted it for the SatNav and Road Angel.
