just cutting the fat. Options

[Justincredible]

http://www.centralillinoisimports.org/foru...tid=14341&stc=1


http://www.centralillinoisimports.org/foru...tid=14342&stc=1

[xian 1g]

that's what i like to see!!!! Please tell me you yanked your ac and power steering too! Did you use a heat gun on the sound dampening, or did you just scrape it?

[Justincredible]

just scraped it. I'll prlly drop the power steering eventually. But, I like the AC.

[MidwestDSM]

http://www.centralillinoisimports.org/foru...tid=14341&stc=1


http://www.centralillinoisimports.org/foru...tid=14342&stc=1

nice....

If I ever get a new project up and going, she will be a light little beast as well.

[xian 1g]

wow, for just scraping it, it looks like it came off pretty well. I just scraped mine as well, but it left a ton of little bitty pieces still stuck to the metal frame. I had to go back with brake cleaner. It does a damn good job, 3 cans= $15. Spray it, smoke a cigarette, wipes off real easy. Are you going to yank weight out of the dash? What about the bumpers? Did you go all the way forward with your gut and rape job, or just the back end?

... sorry to hear about the ac.... as fast as your car goes, i would think that you should get quite a breeze with the windows down...

[resalturbo]

hoping to do the same on my next day off

looks good

[JMoushon]

I don't know if I'd be willing to deal with the road noise. I mean, how important is weight, anyway? These cars ONLY weigh like 1.5 tons.

[Justincredible]

Are you going to yank weight out of the dash?  What about the bumpers?  Did you go all the way forward with your gut and      job, or just the back end?

... sorry to hear about the ac....   as fast as your car goes, i would think that you should get quite a breeze with the windows down...

I took the dash apart once and it was not fun. So I dunno if I feel like doing that again. The front bumper will get cut up when I install the FMIC. the rear bumper will prlly get the same. Just the rear end for now, except for no headliner. I mean come on its still the DD. When I stop spending my money on it I'll pick up a second car and gut the rest and lose ac stuff.

JM- Road noise difference is seriously minimal. you'll have to catch a ride sometime and I'll show you what I mean.

[JMoushon]

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[Justincredible]

LOL. point taken.

[xian 1g]

i'm nuts and i don't care... I understand your concerns, but i always enjoy finding someone else who wants a gutted car. I think it looks pretty mean, especially after a paint job.

Jmoushon, wanna see if my free 1/2 second from weight reductions can give my very stock car an advantage over yours at cordova???? $.99 and we'll run'em
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justin, yank it... you know you want too... yank it yank it yank it..

[Benny Z]

hatch went on a diet tonight, too.

[JMoushon]

Just so all know, I like weight savings, regardless of the method. Mine will see gutting for Cordova as well. God knows with low hp AND fwd, I need all the diet I can handle. My Civic has not had a passenger seat for 6 Months.

Benny: How much does hatchy weigh now? Like... 900lbs?

Xian: Do you really think you can get .5s out of a gutting? If so, I could make it into the 15s pretty solidly...with two blue bottles. The big ones. Like, a 350 shot. And slicks.

[MidwestDSM]

niiice BZ.

[Benny Z]

Just so all know, I like weight savings, regardless of the method. Mine will see gutting for Cordova as well. God knows with low hp AND fwd, I need all the diet I can handle. My Civic has not had a passenger seat for 6 Months.

Benny: How much does hatchy weigh now? Like... 900lbs?

i still have to remove the sound deadening material this weekend and i have a few other weight reduction "tricks" to pull off before i hop on a grain scale. i'll let you know what she weights on the 30th.

[JMoushon]

Saweet. I look forward to seeing something that vaguely resembles my Honda actually accelerate, rather than just make noise!

[Benny Z]

spy might disagree with you on my car "accellerating".



but we'll see on the 30th.

[JMoushon]

Wow. That's funny.

[Mike]

Nice benny!

[awd4kicks]

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.