HOW TO LIGHTEN THE CELICA?? Options

[mikecelica]

Im looking for ways to lighten up my 94 st, ive started by taking off the spoiler, adding light weight rims, i cant do anything crazy like carbon fibre hood/hatch, jst dont have the money for that but things i can take off, im thinking about taking the rear seats out.. would that do alot? maybe the spare tire..uhmmm??? anyone have thoguhts ????

This post has been edited by mikecelica: Jan 17, 2008 - 11:39 PM

[Valo666]

buy a 5th gen...lol I donno how much weight reduction is gonna do in an ST. I remember at DWG Daftboy went and hit the drag strip fully loaded, came back, took out all of the stuff in his trunk, subs, jack and tools, tire, rear seats, passanger seat, and every thing that could come out easily and ran like 0.12 seconds faster or somethin along thouse lines. If i were u, unless your gonna b running your car as a pure track car, dont go crazy with it like removing your a/c. Ive been in Ottawa in the summer and it can get pretty warm up there. But if you do want a good idea of how to go with full weight reduction...check out this link.....

GT-Force

As for going with aftermarket seats for lightening. If you do, go with a single peice seat. Any of the reclinable seats come with an extra amount of weight for all of the peices that allow it to recline. I have 3 sets of seats that i can put into my celica right now..my sparco torino's, my stocks and 1 momo RSGT seat that my girl friend bought for her old celica. the lightest of them all is the RSGT single peice seat, then the second lightest seat is the stock. then the sparcos. The momo holds the best, then the sparcos then the stock, but if your gonna go for lightening, either spend the $ on a good single peice light weight seat, or stick with stock.