Still trying to trim 200lbs off my way. Anyone have an official weight of our rear seats?

 

It's incredibly light, I wouldn't even bother. What would be a great way to reduce weight is to remove the Traction Control; replace the heavy doors, hood, and trunk with carbon fiber and repaint them to the cars original colors( if you dislike carbon fiber sticking out). Other then that, you should keep your rear seats. They really don't remove much weight at all. Besides, gives more room for stuff.

 

Ive heard that before but a guy on[you know your an SC driver if] said if you had your rear seat out, so he got me wondering.

 

 

yeah ive taken my back seats out many times and they are not heavy at all... feels like youre picking up foam with leather on it.

 

that was me that said that lol i took mine out cause i am 5'8 250

 

Why would you ever want to remove the rear seats anyways? it would look so tacky and make our cars even more useless, not to mention they're just foam and leather. You would probably be better off by going on a diet yourself and losing a few pounds.

Honestly I've done a lot of research into weight reduction and aside from swapping the front seats, the only real practical way to lighten a daily driver without making it completely spartan is to replace body panelling with carbon fiber. Everything else, from lightweight batteries, to compact fuel cells is a total money sink. Even carbon fiber panelling is a waste of money. Yes you probably would cut the SC down by 200 lbs, but for the amount of money you spend, you might as well just slap on some forced induction or 50 shot NOS.

 

They are foam covered in leather.

 

OK thanks for reminding me to forget deleting the rear seat. If it were heavy enough Id pull it out, its not a show car, and nobody else would know.

 

Remove it all! i pulled out a good amount of stuff (as you can see) and i weighed it all and its about 180lbs, i kept all speakers, sub, 12 disk, amp and the other odds and ends.
if i really wanted i could remove 200 lbs easily but some things i like, if this ruffles your feathers wait till you see whats in store...

 

now thats a luxury car lol. nice to see you left the moonroof in

 

what? that cars a fatty, no cake for it!

 

If you DD your car then don't pull the rear seats. They act as sound deadening and removing them causes a lot more noise to enter the cabin.

 

rear seats dont weigh much

get a carbon hood and trunk. that will shave off at least 100lb.

get rid of the stock power seats. get a set of mk4 supra manual seats. they are half the weight. tha modification alone will shave off about 70lb.

 

that's funny, XD
I like the one seater, however I wouldn't do it, but it's very "Deathproof"ish.