What did you do to your MK6 today?

[jay745]

Have you tried replacing the heavy steel control arms with the Audi made aluminum ones?

Yes all the suspension is aluminum lightweight, wheels, brakes. There's not much left. Deleting the AC will get me another 15 pounds or so. Still a long way from sub 2700.

 

[Joe_Mama]

Yeah theyre heavy cars. I would say 2800~ is the limit unless you absolutely gut the car, light drivers seat only, no carpet/sound deadening, no windows/motors/no head unit, speakers etc. Even then you'd be lucky to hit 2700. A miata, these cars aint.

I used to drive a mk1 rabbit that was 1800 lbs. Them days are lonnnnnnnnnng gone.

 

[jay745]

Yeah theyre heavy cars. I would say 2800~ is the limit unless you absolutely gut the car, light drivers seat only, no carpet/sound deadening, no windows/motors/no head unit, speakers etc. Even then you'd be lucky to hit 2700. A miata, these cars aint.

I used to drive a mk1 rabbit that was 1800 lbs. Them days are lonnnnnnnnnng gone.

Deleting the glass and all carbon fiber panels would very likely get me there but that's not realistic for me at least. The carbon fiber panels cost more than they are worth for me and I need glass because I drive it to and from track days. I'm pretty happy with it at its current weight. I still have speakers and won't remove those until I have a trailer and tow vehicle.

 

[Joe_Mama]

Yeah it would be a dedicated track car at the point, which isnt really worth it for 100lbs weight savings.

 

[jay745]

Indeed. Mines pretty miserable check a dedicated track car except I drive it to and from. It's still plated, just miserable to drive on the street.

 

[CowTownRacer]

Got the front bumper off, the battery out and most of the CAI out. Having a bit of time getting the PCV breather hose off the intake. That things a biatch.

 

[Injen1us]

Yeah it would be a dedicated track car at the point, which isnt really worth it for 100lbs weight savings.

This is my thought process exactly. ~2800 gets you FRS weight. Its not light but its respectable. The car also really becomes VERY fun to drive.

My build has always been about walking the line between track car and daily. That line is razor thin and I teeter on either edge from time to time. But as it sits now I am comfortable putting 20k on the car every year and doing multiple road trips.

 

[Injen1us]

Damn. Really wondering what mine weighs now with no interior and a roll bar. I wonder if I can get it under 2700...

Do you have a sunroof?

No sunroof no. 3dr too.

I think you could get down to 2700 if you went gutted... but then your car is really miserable to drive. I had a friend who did that and he was immune to NVH so it worked for him...

 

[Phur]

I got mine back from the body shop yesterday.

 

[Saabingti]

I got mine back from the body shop yesterday.

Looks good, what's your Tint? And what did you have done to it?

 

[Phur]

The tint was done when I got the car, so I’m not sure.
I got my Edition 35 bumper with lip and golf r side skirts painted and installed. I had the center part of the bumper sprayed gloss black and had the rear valence smoothed and sprayed gloss black.

 

[snobrdrdan]

It looks better, don't get me wrong, but why not color match the lower grille insert (instead of the gloss black)?
The lower lip (insert) doesn't look bad in black though

And/or maybe the red strips in the upper grille?

 

[Phur]

It looks better, don't get me wrong, but why not color match the lower grille insert (instead of the gloss black)?
The lower lip (insert) doesn't look bad in black though

And/or maybe the red strips in the upper grille?

The Edition 35 came from the factory black. As does the lip. I feel like that horizontal expanse makes it look wider and more aggressive. There are plenty of examples on the ‘gram of people that have color matched theirs. I think that it looks really interesting and was actually planning on doing that before following Edition35 on Instagram, getting flooded with images of them (though none in UG) and finding that I like the black. I just prefer the wider look.

 

[zef]

Under 2700 is hard. I'm at 2811 at the moment and really scratching my head on where I would for me another 100 that could come out. I do want to delete my front impact bar and replace it with a lightweight tubular but even that's only 30 or so.

I mean the fact that you got there with a 4 door is impressive. The sunroof is a decent amount of weight too.

 

[jay745]

I mean the fact that you got there with a 4 door is impressive. The sunroof is a decent amount of weight too.

I honestly don't think the doors add much. There's some extra electronics and door panels which are marginal but otherwise the amount of metal is about the same, just on the rear body panel instead of a door. I don't have a sunroof, on my buddies mk5 we deleted his sunroof and weighed everything, came out to 37 pounds. Would expect an mk6 sunroof to weigh about the same.