just cutting the fat. Options

[Justincredible]

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[AWD DSM 1]

No offense to those that want to gut. I think gutting a car for racing is the perfect thing to do...on a race car.

A lot of you on DSMCentral and Cii probably haven't had much exposure to the old DSM threads from the Talon Digest and the old stand by Chi-town DSM yahoogroup, but the slogan most of them use to run by was 'Go Fast With Class'. This may have sounded like some corny Student council idea from high school, but it is meant as a way to separate the DSM guys with true desire to tune and be incredibly quick from the 'ricers' and wannabe import owners that would do everything cheap and cheasy to look like a flashy race car or their opinion of it. Honda owners (No offense) have been known for this gutting for years, but it makes sense with so little horsepower in the majority of the Hondas on the street. DSM's were known for pulling up in what appeared to be a semi-stock or at least full interior car and just obliterating the rows and rows of gutted imports trying to look fast.

So beyond a history lesson this may mean nothing, but it's the idea that I build my stock bodied full weight AWD DSM by. A properly tuned DSM can beat down just about any import and quite a few V8's with-out a bit of weight reduction.

EXACTLY.