Shaving Weight out of a 94 Trans am any recomendations

 

Depends how bad you want to ***** it out, keeping it nice, start out by take out the Rear seats, rear seat seat belts, spare tire and jack. From that point, you can take out the front sway bar, more of a traction deal, but shaves some weight. Depends on how bad you wanna make it light, a lot people ***** these cars out to save weight

 

How much weight is in the Rear Seat and Spare tire stuff. It's just something i can do to race a weekend and then put it all back together. (The Rear Seats might stay out for a while until needed) I don't think i will take the front sway bar out because i might be doing more of Road Racing/Time Trial stuff rather than Drag Racing it (occacionally might) But Thanks for the Advice.

 

This link should help some.

http://www.bfranker.badz28.com/fbody/weights.htm

 

if you have power seats and wanna shave some weight i have the manual slider for sale.

it has front back (obviously) and tilt feature.

top of this page

 

I hear the engine and trans are great for weight reduction.

 

So are the airbags but they are HELL to remove, especially the passenger side. I ended up breaking my dash but at least I have a dashboard cover to make it all better Here is a link to a list of weight reduction items I compiled while keeping a stock look except for the absence of the back seat, of course. It is post #14 and it is in this thread: http://web.camaross.com/forums/showthread.php?t=303211

You may also use "Speed Glass" to replace your factory glass to shave 64 pounds(4th gen) if you really want to get hard core about it. http://www.percyshp.com/speedglass_p...lass_home.html

 

Let's go on a diet...

(BTW, I have done nowhere near all of these ideas myself.)

Feel free to make suggestions and to add guesstimations or factual info as to how much weight any of the ideas remove. I'll add that info to the list.

Weight removal list!
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First step....
Buy a lightweight optioned car

Free stuff....
9...!ABS
21.5!AC compressor
8.5.!AC condenser
....!AC fan motor
13.5!Airbag and bracket, passenger's
4...!Airbag, driver's
....!Air dam
1...!Air filter
5...!Amp, Monsoon
4...!Antenna, bracket, and motor if applicable
....!Ashtray & lighter
....!Blinker switch
2...!Bolt lengths, extra
....!Brake pedal pad
23..!Bumper, front reinforcement and brackets
21..!Bumper, rear reinforcement and brackets
34..!Carpet & Sound deadening
50..!Catback
15..!Cats
9...!Center console
....!Coating, under carpet
4...!Crossmember brace
....!Cruise control
10..!Dash
20..!Door panels
11..!EGR, air pump, & harware
....!Emblems
....!Fan, 1
....!Fan shroud
5...!Floormats
3...!Foglights and brackets
....FRA mod
....!Gas, Extra
2.5.!Glovebox
1...!Grill insert
4...!Hatch cover
2...!Hatch shocks
....!Headlights
....!Headliner
3...!Head unit
....!Head unit/AC console trim piece
8...!Heat sheilding
9...!Heater core
1...!Hood shocks
3...!Horn
3...!Inner fenderwells, plastic
....!Liscense plate brackets
....!Liscense plate(s)
....!Misc. junk in the car like keys, garage remote, change, owner's manual, etc.
1...!Owner's manual
3...!Panels, under steering wheel
5....Panhard rod brace, upper
....!Parking brake
....!Power brake booster
....!Parking brake handle
....!Power seat motor
11..!Power steering pump, pulley, idler pulley
....!Power window motors
1...!Rear view mirror
9...!Seatbelts (rears and passenger's)
34..!Seat, passenger's
19..!Seats, rear
3...!Sheetmetal, extra double walled
....!Shifter ****
5...!Side impact bars
35..!Spare tire and jack
7...!Speaker panels, hatch
5...!Speaker panels, rear passenger's
15..!Speakers
35..!Spoiler (Weight measured on a Pontiac)
....!Spring isolators
2...!Sun visors
14..!Swaybar and brackets, front
....!Taillight(s)
2...!T-Top holders
....!Under car tow points
1...!Washer fluid pump
9...!Windshield washer fluid
2...!Windshield wiper reservoir
3...!Wiper arms
3...!Wiper motor
....!Wiring, Excess

Wallet mods....
3...Airlid, aftermarket
3...Chromoly LCAs
3/9.Carbon fiber driveshaft
14..Chromoly A-arms
30.5Chromoly K-member
....Draglite wheels
....Drag slicks or street slicks
....Drilled axles
24..Dry cell battery
10..Electric water pump
....Fiberglass door skins
30..Fiberglass hood
....Fuel cell
18..'99+ fuel tank for '98 cars
....Headers
....Lexan glass
....Lightweight clothing
35..Lightweight brakes, front
....Lightweight brakes, rear
10..Lightweight flywheel
13..Lightweight springs and shocks
....Lightweight steering column
6...Lightweight steering wheel
10..Manual rack and pinion steering
....Plastic fuel tank, late model
....Powerglide, TH350, or M4 transmission
17/29.Racing seat
....Shortbelt mod
....Skinny front tires
15..Spool
20..TQ converter, small
....Underdrive pulleys

And finally....
Wash car inside, out, and underneath
Potty break
Go on a diet yourself!

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My car is a factory FREAK. I have all the trunk stripped down, just some carpetting, no power seats, FG hood, everythign else factory all on my 1995 Firebird Formula. According to DMV when i brought my car through it weighed 3820 with me and 2 friends. 150+150+250=550, 3820-550= 3270 I can get pics and look for things that might have been done by the previous owner if you all want. It's defiantely not stipped, just the back where there used to be a system. I still have the rear seats and all.

 

Pics would be nice.

 

Pics of what though? I have a pic of the trunk but i'll need to upload it to my site.

Here's a link to the formula

http://www.home.earthlink.net/~xmx/id6.html

 

wow, got the car for right above $2000 with 60k miles? very nice buy

Pics of the interior with the weight reduction prefered.

 

Here is a pic of my trunk. I dont know what all weight reduction has been done. Maybe their scale was just off, but i dunno. It feels lighter then my dad's V6 camaro, as far as driving, definately way lighter then my stripped 79 Z28, lighter then the V6 mustang i had, but a little heavier then the porsche 944 i had. So maybe it really does weigh 3270.

Here's a pic. Ignore the dirt, i put the new transmission for my Camaro in it, and those wires were from the previous owner. He had over 3,000watts fo bass and broke the rear window, so thats been replaced with some heavy duty stuff. It was a competition/show car to him, it's gonna be my race car as soon as i sell my camaro

http://home.earthlink.net/~xmx/siteb...ures/trunk.jpg

 

http://ls1tech.com/forums/showthread.php?t=17319

That's where the list above comes from.

FRRAX.com has some good weight reduction threads. I've compiled a spreadsheet of about 600 lbs of stuff that can be chopped off for cars that still need to turn.