how about the fact that it'll look nasty back there?? it'll look ghetto, man.

i lived in ktown for 4 years and even 6th st. is congested.

 

hey i think i saw your car in Ktown...

have you ever been to Mr. Coffee?

i think i saw your car park there.

 

most likely not. i only head out there for gogi or if my friends want to meet up at bleu. i'd say i'm in ktown less than once a month now.

 

they say 100 lbs = 5hp... they also say 100lbs = .1 sec in 1.4 mile...

I'm not sure which is accurate because 5 hp doesn’t = .1 sec in 1/4 mile...

BTW - the back seat weighs a helluva lot more than 5lbs! A damn baby car seat weighs more than that

Anyway to the OP - if you have done everything possible to make gains and are looking to shave a bit off track time then yes its worth it... I wouldn’t do it as a permanent thing - but losing weight on the car will definitely result in faster times!

 

I drive naked to shave off mili-seconds off my quarter mile.

 

shave your pubes and you'll get few more nano-seconds

 

^lol

 

I drive a G man... my whole body is shaved.

 

The back seat is pretty light. You should remove your front seats. They are way heavier. Remove all of your gas also.

 

I love rice boys. Every 100lbs you remove will improve your quarter mile by .1 seconds. This means removing your back seat will only give you a minute increase that you will not even feel.

 

not worth it. go FI if you wanna be quick. or add stickers so you will be MORE FASTER

 

I did a lot of weight reduction to my last car one weekend... I probably removed around 150lbs of interior and I couldn't tell a difference at ALL. I don't go to the track, so obviously if it made me go slightly faster I wouldn't really know..

If you think that removing the seat is going to make your car go noticeably faster forget it, it'll drive and handle just as it did with the back seat in. Unless you're car's future involves competitive racing, I think you'll just degrade the value of a great car... To be honest you'll probably just put it back in the next day if you really do remove it, after you realize it didn't make any difference what so ever.

And to add to this, if you really want to do weight reduction look into removing all that extra safety related material reinforcing the front/rear bumper and doors =)

 

It's not worth it. I am going to venture a guess that the back seat in our cars weighs probably about 60-80 pounds, Max. Not even close to enough to make a noticeable difference.

I actually have a coworker at my job who removed his rear seats and a bunch of interior parts from his Audi S4 to try to make it lighter, quicker... but mianly to make it more fuel efficient. He said it made absolutely no difference in his fuel economy and he couldn't feel any difference in speed. I will tell you though.... that a lot of people at work give him a real hard time about it because his car looks like total crap without the rear seat in there. He put the entire interior back together a few weeks ago after the experiment turned out to be a complete flop in getting him his desired gains.

In case you were wondering how big of a difference that extra weight would have on your cars performance... you can get an idea just by the weight of your car with a full gas tank. Gas weighs about 6.25 pounds per gallon(at 72 degrees), and our cars have about a 20 gallon tank.... so the difference between a completely full tank of gas in a G35 Coupe and a G35 Coupe that is almost empty(we'll say 1 gallon of gas left in the tank) is about 120 pounds. I don't know about you... but I can hardly notice any difference in acceleration in my car when the tank is full compared to when it's very low.... and the full tank of gas weighs almost twice what we're presuming the rear seat to weigh. Just consider that when weighing your options, and I think you'll come to the conclusion that you're better off leaving the seat in there since the sacrifice to looks, and functionality will be far more noticeable than any performance gains.

 

you dont have any friends ? ill be your friend for a low fee ;D

 

Total waste of time.

You may as well drive around with a >1/4 tank of gas if you're looking for a tiny speed gain.