What kindof weight reduction is best for 6th gen accord coupes?
as far as trunk, interior, under-hood....
Thanks...

 

what do you mean by best?

best would be to just gut the whole car...but thats probably not what you wanna do...you question is vague

 

sorry, I ment "best" as in rear seats, trunk liner, any exess crap just hagin
around.. I wish I had enough money to do some true weight reduction.
my question is just the stuff the average jo can do...

 

well, anything you don't need/want...take out...simple as that...

 

i dunno about weight...
but a waste of space..
is typing like
this..
havent we
been
over this already????
?????

 

LOL,
anyways
weight reduction works the best when...

you can remove all
unecessary things as possable
to maximize gains and
effort

 

haha man you crack me up

 

Hey Hey Hey..no need to be *****.j/k.. I'm trying your way so cut me some slack. I was just wondering if there were any tid bits that could go that would help any at all with reducing weight...

Thanks.....

 

hmm..lets see...spare tire, jack, hmm...back seat...i did this for a lil bit but i didnt like it much...i cant think of anythign else..anyone else?
Misa..should we invite him to the PARTY!!!!!!

 

passenger seat
carpet
a/c
power steering
sound deadining (sp?) tons of it on 6th gens
trunk lining
stereo
head liner
all pillars

i think that's all i have done

 

wwhat i have removed so far:

trunk lining
spare
rear seat metal backing
replace drivers seat with 1pc corbeau forza
remove all a/c components
remove airbags
remove glove box ()
remove cruise control
and possably more, i still need a lighter hoos and pass seat

 

I dont think I'm going that radical, but I do plan on taking my rear seat out and all sound deadoning, lining in trunk..

Oh, by the way do yall run any car meets in north texas??
Party????

 

im east coast mang, virginia

 

you could go with a carbon fiber hood and front fenders...but that's some $$ and it's not a whole lot of weight that you are saving...if you don't want to be safe you could take out the airbags but i don't recommend this...passenger seat and all the carpet...you could probably get rid of at least 100 pounds total after the seats and spare tire and stuff...but you probably still want to drive your car on the street i'm guessing too!...good luck!


[Modified by nickh2k1, 4:40 PM 4/8/2002]

 

well shoot if we're gonna start naming everything we've done for weight reduction hmm..lemme start the list...

well nothin really..but i am missin a few screws here and there...?

 

what part of north texas? ill be transfering to UNT next spring...or Texas Tech go to play for Bobby Knight...im so thrilled!
btw..ya we are throwin a party at my place cuz Misa !!! we are all so excited! jk dude


[Modified by kazmans94cord, 3:48 PM 4/8/2002]

 

man, i have a bucket filled with unecessary screws/nuts/bolts etc ....

 

cool. If you here of anyone in my neck of the woods that are gathering I would truly appreciate it. drop a note(killbot419@hotmail.com)
thanks again,
I'll try to keep my posts correct.
I'm out west of ft.worth up on eaglemtn. lake



[Modified by 01sleeperaccord6, 3:50 PM 4/8/2002]

 

so i guess its a good thing? haha i had my back seat out for a while...but it didnt really do anything for me so i put that back....i think i should first start with my 75lbs custom box with my subs and my spare and jack...geez...im a disappointment

 

yeah...there are a lot of unnecesary screws and bolts in the accord...if honda would just not put in the unnecessary ones they could probably save themselves a lot of money...just think...even if one screw costs $0.01 (and it's probably cheaper than that to them) for every thousand cars they sell it's $10...and think of how many unnecessary nots and bolts are on the car plus the number of cars they sell...but oh well


[Modified by nickh2k1, 4:54 PM 4/8/2002]

 

how far is that from denton?

 

About 30min south of denton.down 35 south to 114west out that way.
if you want dir just e-mail me..

 

Weight reduction ehh?

there's two kinds - unsrpung and uhh.. sprung?.. I guess we'll just call it 'other' kind. They've pretty much mentioned all of the interior stuff as far as trim peices go and the spare and jack and what not. Some other ideas though. Honda airboxes weigh a lot compared to say an aluminum AEM CAI. Or you could just simply remove the lower air box (it has a twisty pipe in it to quiet the intake). Titanium exhaust!! No really though... there's a hella large number of heat sheilds along and around the exhaust piping that are somewhat unnessacary - ditch those. If you have the dual (fake) exhaust - get rid of the other muffler. I know some one who took out his back seat and removed 70% of the metal in it - approxiamately 9 pounds of metal. Front seats weight a lot too... especially motorized ones... and leather too. Go for aftermarket seats. Power steering and A/C already mentioned. So was carbon fiber hood. Thats about all I got off the top of my head... except the power train.

Everything that spins on your car creates a load and rotational inertia that your motor needs to overcome. So if it spins get a lighter one.
Wheels - lightwieght wheels - Honda's wheels are not overly heavy but a set of VOLK's, Spoon's, or Mugen's would be the **** - but there's other cheaper options out there.
Lightweight pulleys (be careful not to confuse with underdrive pulley's) make sure you're getting what you want.
Rotors - many aftermarket rotors are lighter weight
Flywheel - fidanza, exedy or something like that - a big difference - makes your motor and car much more throttle responsive

Try that...

 

i see...well im still in houston...maybe in about a year..or less..ha

 

dude...i got it yo...seal off the trunk and somehow figure out a way to inject helium into the trunk...it's lighter than air and that could create less weight...you should give it a try!