Remove the sound dead`ning?

[interloper393]

Anyone know how muchall this weights in the fd? or how noisy it makes it inside lol..

ta :mmmm

[MikeLMR]

a couple of kilo\'s at the most, it\'s a horrible job taking it off, spent many hours with a scraper, screwdriver, hot air gun, thinners etc. cleaning floorpans ready for welding in roll cages. road noise and "feel" of the floor is certainly different after you take it all off. If you aren\'t fitting roll cage don\'t bother, there must be a hundred other things you can do to loose the same amount of weight elsewhere.

[interloper393]

every little helps tho ..

Well the a/c out and all the rats nest plus modded the plenum n pipes and removed every bit of unuse metel.. just looking for free weight loses lol.. guna keep the power steering tho, driving about the now without the belt n its a coont

[gsb876]

If you have quite a loud exhaust then leave it in trust me, makes the sound in the cabin vibrate something daft and you\'ll need ear plugs to then drive it :Nono!

Although my FD did have a stupidly loud exhaust which did not help much :rolleyes:

[interloper393]

mine isnt silly loud but is a little bit lol.. kinda tinny raspy rumble.. not heard anything quite like it.. might have something to do with all the porting iv done to the exhaust ports n manifold :S

[gsb876]

mine isnt silly loud but is a little bit lol.. kinda tinny raspy rumble.. not heard anything quite like it.. might have something to do with all the porting iv done to the exhaust ports n manifold :S

If its fairly quiet then might be alright chap :Party

[weejimmy]

thought more off you than that interloper.
i took my powersteering off and kept it off.
but proberly gained more kgs in muscle in my arm than i lost on the p-s lol

[interloper393]

if its 2 loud ill just turn the stereo up

[weejimmy]

stero !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
do you know how haevy those things are.

[interloper393]

yeah being sarcastic man lol, i aint got room for a fooking stereo with all the crap in mine .. i just sing very loudly :S

[Ricco_04]

Take yer wing off and fit mini superlights :flamed  You could always drive commando and save more weight :Laugh

[chrisJDM]

surely saving up and buying things like carbon doors and boot lid would be a good weight save, plus lexan windows, the glass must weigh alot.  I bet you the stock doors are very heavy.

Speak to Jon (AtomicRex) he has a very stripped out very light rx7 so knows what is worth doing to save weight, i know he has ALOT of carbon on his car

[interloper393]

id like to go the carbon root but is way to expensive for me :S.. just looking at what i cn ditch, sound proofings coming out anywho.. the fact that the lexan glass scratches easily puts me off it.

[20B_boy]

As Mike says, its a pretty tedious job - freezing it helps

Dunno about weight, couple of kg sounds about right I guess.

As for noise, yes its loud. Add solid diff mounts and a dog box and its pretty nasty Worst thing is road debris - any thing bigger than a small pebble hitting the chassis at speed can be like a gun going off!

[RobbieRX-7]

The doors are heavy, about 25kg each, then the dash is another 20-25kg, i reckon you\'ll loose the weight of a mate if you took just those 3 things off. Just wear your seatbelt and don\'t go out in the rain