adamnreeves Posted November 14, 2010 Share Posted November 14, 2010 Contrary to popular belief I am not breaking my car down and selling off in bits . I've been a little quiet, well more than usual so you may have missed it Mainly because certain individual just seem to take the P**s. My car is an Aero-screen SEiGHT and was bit of mixed bag in terms of some of the design choices I went for. It happens when building over a five year period. After some track action and 1/4 mile runs and lots of road driving I've decided that I want the car more focussed. Luxuries such as carpets make no difference when wearing a helmet due to aero screen. The westfield sport seats look nice but I always felt that I was sitting on them rather than in them and part of car. Also the seats were a compromise with used with 4 point harnesses and decided that a seat with holes through for harnesses was the way to go. I was always going to go for a RAC style roll bar but with the play skool bargin of a full roll cage decided that I would go for this item. Thinking of adding extra weight also drove me to think I need to make some serious weight reduction. I've removed close on to 53kgs from the car and can realise another 12kgs adding up to 65kgs. Some items need replacing with lighter weight ones meaning I need to add back 20kgs. Plus the rollcage of 27kgs so a net weight reduction of 18kgs So a safer more rigid and lighter car. The new weight without me and fuel will be 650kgs which will give me very close to 500 bhp/tonne Work in progress. I think it looks better than carpet anyway. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bananaman Posted November 14, 2010 Share Posted November 14, 2010 Them new seats look really light! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adamnreeves Posted November 14, 2010 Author Share Posted November 14, 2010 Them new seats look really light! If only this would work. However the seats are circa 5kgs each. I will probably run with no passenger seat for a while, well at least until I've been back to the POD. Will not be installing the seats until I get the roll cage. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tigger Posted November 14, 2010 Share Posted November 14, 2010 I've been going down this road for a while now Adam and I'm finding it hard to think of what to loose weight on next. It's a very expensive route as you can imagine. I was once told that even if it sounds insinificant, every little counts, bit like Tesco's In the pic above, I notice you still have rubber trim around the dash and Aero, you may want to think about losing that, rubber is heavy Looking very cool though and love the floor Tiggs Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blitz Posted November 14, 2010 Share Posted November 14, 2010 VERY nice, keep us up to date with the mods. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
markcoopers Posted November 14, 2010 Share Posted November 14, 2010 Adam, are your floors/tunnel panels carbon or covered ali. My friend Jason is interested in removing his carpets, but he is quite fussy about what it looks like and i recon yours would be the look he wants. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peterg Posted November 14, 2010 Share Posted November 14, 2010 I'm finding it hard to think of what to loose weight on next try eating fewer pies Paul Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Major Stare Posted November 14, 2010 Share Posted November 14, 2010 That mobile phone holder must weigh a bit too Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adamnreeves Posted November 14, 2010 Author Share Posted November 14, 2010 I'm finding it hard to think of what to loose weight on next try eating fewer pies Paul Have you seen tigger paul Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adamnreeves Posted November 14, 2010 Author Share Posted November 14, 2010 That mobile phone holder must weigh a bit too The phone with charger is heavier :-) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cliveboy8 Posted November 14, 2010 Share Posted November 14, 2010 You seem to be sitting very low in that picture. We can only see your head. Do your legs go under the car? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
echoz Posted November 14, 2010 Share Posted November 14, 2010 You seem to be sitting very low in that picture. We can only see your head. Do your legs go under the car? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barry Ashcroft Posted November 14, 2010 Share Posted November 14, 2010 The b2 looks good on the dash Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nick Algar - Competition Secretary Posted November 14, 2010 Share Posted November 14, 2010 Looking very smart so far Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tigger Posted November 14, 2010 Share Posted November 14, 2010 I'm finding it hard to think of what to loose weight on next try eating fewer pies Paul Cheeky, unfortunately, eating less pies is NOT an option Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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