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Old 04-04-2009, 02:48 PM   #7 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by TunerJunkyard View Post

Unburdening your car of all seat belts and assemblies will lighten your load by another 50 lbs. If you're brave enough to drag race, you'd better be brave enough to do it without seat belts.


I'm not amused by this article, despite the fact that I mainly work with power to weight ratio, and built lightweight vehicles.

It's not even remotely funny to suggest removing ones seat-belts in effort to save weight, no matter what the cause.

Also, I personally have never seen a car that lost 50 lbs from the seat-belts being removed. Try more like 20-30 with 5 belts, including anchoring hardware.
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