While the motor is pulled from the car this week to replace the oil pan gasket, I was thinking about removing the A/C compressor. What would this involve? Is there a special pulley I would need or do I just remove the compressor and be done with it? Also, what kind of weight savings would this give me?

I've been looking into weight reduction as my next "mod".

This is the list of weight reducing mods that I have either already done, or plan on doing this week, along with natural weight reductions due to feature of the car.

Car is a hardtop coupe A4 LT1 Camaro.

Fiberglass hood.
Jack removed
Spare removed
A/C removed
No power windows
No power locks
Both cats removed
Rear seats removed

What kind of TOTAL weight savings would I see from these changes?

 

Sweat

 

You need to replace the A/C compressor with an "A/C delete pulley". Bolts in place of the compressor, and keeps the serpentine belt routed correctly. GM made one for the 1LE option cars. Not sure if its still available. Just avoid the cheap Chinese ripoffs on ebay.... they won't last.

Probably a total of 50# reduction with all the A/C components, including the condensor, the evaporator, plumbing, etc.

You save very little weight converting to manual locks and windows... couple pounds at most. Not worth the inconvenience. I went as far as removing the sun visors.

Hate to reference a competing site, but this thread is pretty good:

http://ls1tech.com/forums/drag-racin...y-updated.html