Mustang Rear Seat Delete Kit or Removal Save Much Weight?
i am trying to make my car light weight. would taking out the backseats really do much or would i be wasting my time. this summer i am putting in a 302 so it will be faster. i thought about getting a backseat delete kit. would this do much for the weight and i am also putting light weight racing seats in the front.
i am trying to make my car light weight. would taking out the backseats really do much or would i be wasting my time. this summer i am putting in a 302 so it will be faster. i thought about getting a backseat delete kit. would this do much for the weight and i am also putting light weight racing seats in the front.
yeah, you'll save around 100 lbs. That's good for a tenth in the 1/4.
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I tore out my back seat but haven't put in the rear seat delete kit I bought. I did it because the car had mice in it and stank. I would say from my memory you might save more like 40 to 50 pounds if you install the kit. That's just from my memory of what the seats felt like. I also seam to remember either a magazine article or the ad for the delete kit I got saying that it was around 50 lbs.
There is a guy on E-bay that sells the kits. Try looking up mustang rear seat delete. It might say there.
I tore out my back seat but haven't put in the rear seat delete kit I bought. I did it because the car had mice in it and stank. I would say from my memory you might save more like 40 to 50 pounds if you install the kit. That's just from my memory of what the seats felt like. I also seam to remember either a magazine article or the ad for the delete kit I got saying that it was around 50 lbs.
There is a guy on E-bay that sells the kits. Try looking up mustang rear seat delete. It might say there.
Depends on the material.
Plywood is heavier than regular wood, Stiffened balsa (using the gel stuff model airplaners use) would be the lightest outside of ABS or Carbon Fiber.
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I PERSONALLY THINK THERES NOT MUCH OF A BIG DIFF...A 100 LBS?
THATS STEEP I DONT THINK A BACK SEAT WEIGHS NO WHERE NEAR A HUNDRED POUNDS....IF ITS A DAILY DRIVER DONT DELETE IT UNLESS U PUTTN SPEAKERS.....OTHERWISE ONLY DELETE IT IF ITS A FULL OUT RACE CAR.....
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I PERSONALLY THINK THERES NOT MUCH OF A BIG DIFF...A 100 LBS?
THATS STEEP I DONT THINK A BACK SEAT WEIGHS NO WHERE NEAR A HUNDRED POUNDS....IF ITS A DAILY DRIVER DONT DELETE IT UNLESS U PUTTN SPEAKERS.....OTHERWISE ONLY DELETE IT IF ITS A FULL OUT RACE CAR.....
a hundred lbs is a tenth, and half a mpg.
I wouldn't subject anyone to the back seat anyway. The only thing that's ever back there are groceries and paperwork fromt he office.
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i thought about taking it out to build a sub box for that location but that is still extra weight.
heh heh its like I gotta loose 80lbs of body fat for 80lbs of muscle. if the seat folds down then probally just spreading the wieght out might be better than getting rid of it completly
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heh heh its like I gotta loose 80lbs of body fat for 80lbs of muscle. if the seat folds down then probally just spreading the wieght out might be better than getting rid of it completly
no, that's impossible -weight is weight.
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i thought about taking it out to build a sub box for that location but that is still extra weight.
I was definatly gonna do the same thing, cpet i also wanted to make the rear of the car nice enough to lay in, more weight but meh, what the heck. a tenth of a sec dont really matter to me.... but how much weight could i lose if i made my hatch into what somone just suggested to me....... convertible.
but yes, clear glass enclosure...the only way to go
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Woe to him who builds his palace by unrighteousness,his upper rooms by injustice,making his countrymen work for nothing...Does it make you a king to have more and more cedar?Did not your father have food and drink?He did what was right and just,so all went well with him. He defended the cause of the poor and needy,and so all went well...But your eyes and your heart are set only on dishonest gain,on shedding innocent blood and on oppression and extortion. Jer 22:13, 15-17
Im just gonna keep my rear seat folded cause sooner or later some one sadly will have to sit back there hahaha. I dont think the backseats for a fox wiegh a hundred pounds. I know its probally a good fuckmobile if its a hatch like mine
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