I'm itching to build a really light ~350whp weekend car. I would like to keep the 2 front seats and carpet but everything else can go. If a stock civic hatch weighs about 2100 pounds, how light would be too light before compromising safety? do cars start to get hard to control when they are too light? Was there a thread that people posted how much their EF's weighed? I searched for similar threads but didn't find much

I'm guessing around 1900 pounds would be an ideal weight to shoot for. I may even go as far as fabricating an aluminum dash and ditching everything that's behind the stock dash.

Thanks for the input

 

car can never be too light. the lighter it is, the quicker it will transition. shoot for 1500lbs. :D

oh yeah, you'll have to be stripping a lot out of it to drop 200lbs..

 

Aren't the Crx HF's like 1900 1800 lbs?

 

How light is too light??? if you see flying birds next to you, then you will know if its too light ahahah

 

I was thinking lexan windows, gutted doors, aluminum dash with nothing behind it, no bumper supports, and a few other misc things

crx's are not common in my area either

 

no one else? I just found that the std 88-89 hatch weighs under 2k pounds so maybe ~1700 pounds would be another goal. 1700 pounds + 350whp seems like a blast to drive

 

why not a 84 hf? its already 1700lbs with a full interior. Hell, the 84 si is under 1900 iirc

 

The only problem is driving in the rain with 15"X6" tires. You will hydroplane.

 

Like I said, crx's are hard to come by and are expensive when you do

It would be a weekend car to have fun with. It would have some kind of drag radials and would never see the rain