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Old Feb 9, 2007
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lighten my civic

my 04 civic vp is all stock, and i just want to increase my acceleration without puting in hardly any money. i have steelies on right now with all season tires, but i am going to be getting new wheels/tires, i just dont know which ones i should get. i dont want anything bigger than 16's, i was planning on getting some 15in kosei k1's. the reason i want only 15in is because i am more concerned with performance than looks, they are light and all the roads in my area are crappy. so besides the wheels/tires, i wanted to lighten my car. i want to lighten it as much as i can while still keeping the interior nice, because i just bought it. is this possible? what can i do to lighten it while keeping the interior nice? about how much would that take off? and if i were to go all out and make it as light as possible, what would about how much could i expect to get my car down to?
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u can take off the hood, trunk, bumper, headlights.....hehe
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remove all your seats and upholstery, then you will have a nice stock civic that is nice and light for autocross
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yeah but with autocross u gotta be careful certain classes dont allow stripped interiors. and i think the 7thgens run in H stock so im not sure if they allow stripped interior.

but if u want to remove things try...back seats rear interor panels rear decklid stripping the trunk removing the passenger seat. but that will maybe get you like what 150 lbs?
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just go carbonfibre and OZ rims ... duhh hood alone is how many pounds off?
 
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