Weight Reduction On Liberty

[PMP15h]

Just wondering what types of things u can do
to make a S2 Light weight ? Ie - what parts can be removed and thrown away ?

Suggestion welcome





cheers Ive

[yods]

Pretty sure mark has done this, but from what memory

-any seats you don't need (back/passenger)
-noise dampening /carpet
-spare / tools
-lightweight wheels
-air con
-lightened diffs save a few kg
- acid bath the chassis or something?
- stereo gear

[kdavid]

Replace cast exhaust manifold with stainless headers
Install lightweight flywheel (mine is an MRT 4.9 kg, stock is 10.5 kg!)

[NRGIZE]

not a bad list there. what about starting with bonnet/boot??? carbon fibre??? same with some inter parts :)

[JESTER86]

remove all ghetto sub woofers and amps, spare tyre as it is usually wrong size anyways if u have changed wheels, power windows, aircon, spoiler, neons, coilovers are a fair bit lighter. remove the 10 years of gravel and dirt from the underside. :)

[whiterabbit]

no offense guys but it's a waste of time. you want to go faster? then the only way is more power. forget minor things like taking the parcel shelf out, carpet and stereo blah blah. end rant

[Nathan|RST|]

If it is a purpose build track car or something along those lines then it's definitely worth shedding a few kilos. It'll also improve handling and braking and cost little compared to adding kws.

[BenTZ]

neatly remove the inner pannels from the doors, remove cruise and everything thats not necessary for the operation of the vehicle. (also rewire the vehicle to remove any un necessary wires) replace the windows with plexi glass, remove all dash trims anything like that.

[naif]

no offense guys but it's a waste of time. you want to go faster? then the only way is more power. forget minor things like taking the parcel shelf out, carpet and stereo blah blah. end rant


from what i have been told it is actually illegal to remove the rear parcel shelf, hence why most audio installation places wont even cut holes in it and use the raisers when installing aftermarket speakers.

Ivana, your car is allready underweight then most of hours as its only FWD, there is a fair bit more weight in the AWD system.

[Fergo]

Yeah ive, fwd is saving you some weight mate, nathans car used to beat mine for example we cruised up the putty road and dad was driving nathans and he was getting away from me up the hill after the hairpin tyres spinning lol, and his car wont out handle mine anyday of the week. you know we still have a whole awd system at my place ready to go into nathans car so we should weigh it somehow find out how much weight is in the whole system.

as far as track cars go pretty much absolutely anything non essentail is ditched as you add weight with things such as a roll cage, and stiffer suspension components etc. aslo last nigth it was raining so I went and drove the lx around so I could practise my fwd drifting technique lol.

[whiterabbit]

this hits the nail on the head

http://www.rslibertyclub.org/forums/showthread.php?t=53858&highlight=weight+reduction

[jm3132]

fwd saves on just under 300kgs by memory.

also, fluids, who needs them. oil, coolant, petrol, brake fluid - thus, sump, brakes, radiator, motor, all hoses, are useless.

but seriously the amount your going to loose isnt worth it in a street car as said above.

[Raz]

you are all on the wrong track...
SELL it and do a conversion on a Sherpa FTW1!!!!1!

[buddylove]

I left 2 screws out when i installed my new head unit, i gained 0.002 for a quarter time :)

[evade]

fwd saves on just under 300kgs by memory.

also, fluids, who needs them. oil, coolant, petrol, brake fluid - thus, sump, brakes, radiator, motor, all hoses, are useless.

but seriously the amount your going to loose isnt worth it in a street car as said above.

Are you sure about that?

That means a gen 1 LX FWD Liberty weighs 950kg.
I dont think so.

FWD has a total weight saving of less than 100kg

[Mouse]

take out all the porn magazines and videos, should save you about 100kg :P

[rs guy]

cut off head of driver thats bought 30 pounds there :P

[Elliot KB]

lose some weight yourself, fatty...... Jenny craig lol :)

[mitch]

replace everything with aerospace light alloy's such as lithium alloy's :tu