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Old 06-01-2011, 11:35 AM   #8 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by ghostwalker View Post
I'm seriously considering fabbing a rear seat delete supposedly the stock seat is 50 lbs. Lmao I saw one for sale that cost like $300 and saved 3 lbs. I want to make it look like a factory delete though not a hack job. I've been looking at the honda performance world for some weight reduction and it's pretty funny. All the wet carbon fiber reinforced with e-glas. You'd be better off with woven cloth and epoxy resin. Anyway cheers all-GW
I did the hack delete of the seat. I do not record a weight for that part alone, but it was part of a 100lb delete. Your figure sounds close. It is a hack job. But my goal was to take out weight and re-purpose the back end to take garden and home repair supplies more easily, as well as construction waste runs to the dump. If you learn of a good seat source, or make one, I would love to see pics and a how to, because it would be fun to have a seat option available again on demand.

BTW, a person could make cloth/resin fenders an such with only moderate difficulty if you used the factory parts for a mold, no? Would be significantly lighter, no?
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See my car's mod & maintenance thread and my electric bicycle's thread for ongoing projects. I will rebuild Black and Green over decades as parts die, until it becomes a different car of roughly the same shape and color. My minimum fuel economy goal is 55 mpg while averaging posted speed limits. I generally top 60 mpg. See also my Honda manual transmission specs thread.



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