phat00civic

I was wondering of those drivers who use the civic on the weekends who either track it or auto-x it do you remove the rear 1/2 of the plastic panels and seats? I am not sure of how much weight you save but I am curious on what you guys do or if you have pictures?

Flame away if you must but looking at it from a weight savings, and to see how raw it looks bare metal. I know a lot of hatch drivers do it.

grumblemarc

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Jeez. It's plastic. Next to nothing in "weight savings". Seats? Take yours out and weight them if you need to know. And this is a friggin' old topic had you searched before posting.

owneyboy

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if you remove your interior pieces or have strut bars etc... your class in autoX changes. so yeah unless you got a modified car dont take off plastics and rear seats to look cool and save 10 lbs. read the guidelines/rules of the course. is it a legit event? or just some local thing at your town? and for autoX I would assume more weight in back is a + in some cases if you know how to drive and have the correct suspension setup.

grumblemarc

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Maybe you should post this in a more appropriate forum.
https://honda-tech.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=19

Former User

Don't be so grumbly Marc.

D Griff

I would guess 15-25 pounds max for all of it... Not worth it IMO. If you're going to autox or run it on a road coarse, I would suggest moving your battery to the trunk instead, this redistribution won't do a ton, but more than removing your rear interior.

phat00civic

RonJ@HT - No worries on his response I had a feeling something like that would happen.

Thanks everyone, that is what I thought but I wanted to ask. I figured I would search ask now while it is out given that I had to throw out the broken stock rear deck speakers.

Any reason why the hatches do it?

johnjw

I see what you did there......

grumblemarc

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Sorry. Was cruising around GDD.

dirty19

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Searching here sucks... try googling the questions using "honda-tech" in your search string.
the archives just jump out at you then.
Lots of reading to be done at that point.

grumblemarc

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Search works absolutely fine if you're using the advanced search and not the cheesy search box at the top right.
https://honda-tech.com/search.php

SMHero

If you really wanna add some juice to your searches you can search for stripped interior site:https://honda-tech.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=19 in google and it will literally only search for threads in this sub forum.

llauren

Pee before you race; it'll make around the same amount of difference as stripping your interior