i dont really know if i want to gut my car yet i have an 88 rs with perfect interior im just using the car as a racer now so i want to but i want to expect some better times and i will be seeling the interior it is black and gray tweed any offers?

 

.1 second for every 100 pounds. If you completely gut the interior including the dash board and all seats, and throw a single plastic seat in, you might save .15 seconds. Is it really worth it? Unless your car is running 9s, there are MUCH easier ways to go a little faster. What times are you running now?

 

Well..... my friend has a 93 Sentra... he took out his interior and went from 17.9 to 18.1... lmao

 

Dude if its nice leave it in there i've found at all these shows and test and tunes that you usually get more respect for having a car that looks like it should but is fast as hell. You leave it in and people are going to think its just a stock camaro as in no giant shift light or racing harness then you can totally unleash it on em and its kinda like a sleeper i guess. Leave it in you'll thank urself in the future. Someday you may want to toally restore it to new when these things get rare and expensive way in the future and now you have to find a complete interior for it.

 

actually i ran an 18.7 when i had fuel system problems i launched and shut it down, coasted the rest of the way. now i still got some tweakin to do but i got a job an hour away and i need to get rid of the car anyone wanna make an offer?

 

i was hopin for low 13s if i could hook up and i wanted to know that i i was on the edge i could gut it and run12s i got a carbd 406 with a built 400 trans with a 3000 stall and 342 non posi was gonna get a spool and 410s

 

Still way too slow to gut the car for a lousy tenth. There's nothing more ridiculous than a car that's been gutted, trailered, caged, tubbed, or had some other sort of similar mod, only to find out it runs 13s.

You know what's impressive? The mustang I saw 3 weeks ago. He drove it nearly 100 miles to the track, ran 10s, and drove it home. He drives it to work regularly. Full interior and still has ice cold air.

You know what's not impressive? The subaru that was *trailered* there and ran 17s. The malibu wagon that's got a 6 point cage, absolutely no interior, is trailered there and runs 12s. The trailered, tubbed monte carlo that sounds like a top fuel car and runs 12s.

going fast is cool. Going faster is cooler. Raping your car of any useful capability for virtually no gain isn't.

 

I'm going to go with Jim85IROC on this one. Theres no reason to get rid of a nice comfortable interior for a stupid .15 seconds. Unless your running less than 9's it's not needed.

I also agree that it is more impressive to have a car run 11's with full interior and be able to drive home with AC. That's the difference between performance on a F-body and a Civic. One designed for performance with all it's features. The other isn't.

 

i agree with jim too. even if the car is just a racer, gutting the interior for 1/10th of a second is a complete waste. what if you decide to sell the car? a car that has a nice complete interior is worth a hell of a lot more than a car that runs .1 sec faster.

 

ok i get im not gonna do it but i do have to sell the car anyone wanna make me an offer ??? or know anyone that does???

 

you would have to take that one to the classifieds.

 

That mustang was at the track last night. On his run I heard his usual hellacious burnout, heard a great lauch, then shortly later I heard ka-BOOM ka-ting ting ting. He shot half of his rotating assembly out the oil pan.

 

Doh! That sucks.

Yeah I agree, it isn't worth it for a lousy tenth. But I guess it doesn't matter now.... why do you need to sell all of a sudden?

 

i got a job far away so im gettin a bike

 

You know what's not impressive? The mustang Jim saw 3 weeks ago. He drove it nearly 100 miles to the track, ran 10s, and drove it home. He drove it to work regularly. Full interior and still had ice cold air. Except it's a Ford and half of the engine is all over the track now. Ha!

 

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Yeah thats true that its really cool to see a car that way when it is driven 100 miles both ways. BUT as he has now learned, if you flog yer car like that eventually something WILL break. I don't care how much money you spend, parts will go if you beat on em. Sometimes trailering a car that runs 12's and 13's isn't stupid, its a matter of safety and not wanting to pay big bucks for a wrecker to tow it back home!

 

I bet the guy with the Mustang wished he would have trailered it to the track that night. At least he would have had a way to get it home.

 

Removing the back seats(seat belts), spare tire & jack are about as far as i would go on a daily driver........

 

There's a 9.5 second Firebird on ebay right now:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eB...&category=6420


And he took out the console and the seats... still has the rest it looks like.


Thought I'd throw that in

 

Something tells me that has to do with the engine, not taking the seats out.