Stripped

olop_chris · Post by **olop_chris** » Mon Apr 17, 2006 12:28 am

I'm all for trying to make my GTi as light as possible to gain in the power:weight ratio.

What are your opinions on if i stripped the back seats out etc? would you feel it would look s**t? good? not bad? or just plain not worth doing at all...

my mate in his 106 GTi has his back stripped out and looks fairly good, but mind you they dont have the spare wheel well sitting there...hmm

char · Post by **char** » Mon Apr 17, 2006 10:04 am

could you not strip it out but then carpet the back so as to hide the spare wheel? my mate did that to his punto and it looked all right, also helped to block out the noise from his exhaust

olop_chris · Post by **olop_chris** » Mon Apr 17, 2006 5:58 pm

yeah good plan, well i went ahead and put the GTi on a diet today:

i decided not to do a full chat strip, but just enough for it to still look good.

polo69 · Post by **polo69** » Mon Apr 17, 2006 6:03 pm

Is this for racing purposes? Naughty.

Petrified · Post by **Petrified** » Mon Apr 17, 2006 6:20 pm

go on you know you want to

olop_chris · Post by **olop_chris** » Mon Apr 17, 2006 6:24 pm

haha, nah thats abit too radical for my liking, looks similar to my mates VTS...almost nothing in there whatsoever

jon_poloV · Post by **jon_poloV** » Mon Apr 17, 2006 10:23 pm

Sorry but for the little gain, i wouldnt..
Jon

olop_chris · Post by **olop_chris** » Mon Apr 17, 2006 10:49 pm

thats fair enough, i hardly had anyone in the back anywho and may consider some red harness belts also

mysteryboy · Post by **mysteryboy** » Mon Apr 17, 2006 11:24 pm

You could chuck the front seats out too....

replace them with some bike seats

What you done so far doesnt look too bad...I thought it would look a mess.

Why is it you want to stripp it? Or is it obvious lol

olop_chris · Post by **olop_chris** » Mon Apr 17, 2006 11:33 pm

mysteryboy wrote:You could chuck the front seats out too....

replace them with some bike seats

What you done so far doesnt look too bad...I thought it would look a mess.

Why is it you want to stripp it? Or is it obvious lol

ill give the bike seats a miss i think.

i dont think im going to strip anything else, the door cards weigh nothing and neither do the carpets so they can stay.

i stripped it to make it abit lighter (im aware its nothing major!) its a start...next is BMC

i was pretty concerned it would look a huge mess aswell, doesnt look too bad IMO!

-Chris

jon_poloV · Post by **jon_poloV** » Tue Apr 18, 2006 11:50 am

It is a start and if i was you i would get rid of the spar space saver wheels and replace it with a can of tyre weld.

I think polos look wikd with the rare seats taken out and carpeted and an aluminium roll cage put in the back. (even if it is a show cage)

Not ideal for weight saving but looks good.

Jon

neilw · Post by **neilw** » Tue Apr 18, 2006 12:37 pm

The front passenger seat weighs two or three times as much as the rear seats. There mainly just foam, You'd probably loose more weight by taking a dump before you go for a drive. I realised this as I was putting mine back in after the pod.

The spare whell has a fair bit of weight too it, and the tool kit also.

dino · Post by **dino** » Tue Apr 18, 2006 12:51 pm

I wouldn't bother either - doesn't look nice either IMHO.

but each to their own.

olop_chris · Post by **olop_chris** » Tue Apr 18, 2006 2:52 pm

each to their own indeed, i'm going to find it nice and handy for when i start travelling with my bmx when the weather picks up!

mysteryboy · Post by **mysteryboy** » Tue Apr 18, 2006 2:54 pm

Im guessing subs are a no no in your car