Saving weight by ITB

[chrispy.clio]

Does any body know if you actually save much weight by changing to ITB?

Getting rid of the plenum, air box, and tb must weigh quite a bit.

I'll be getting bodies in the next 10 months

 

[mini-valver]

Not to mention all the AC crap

 

[chrispy.clio]

Oh but i kinda wanted to keep my AC, for all those long trips to the ring

 

[mini-valver]

This offends me.











Open a window?

 

[chrispy.clio]

Lol,
When friends (who are not into cars) see my car they ask why i'v stripped it completly. so i explain reason for weight saving and every single one of them says "well why dont you take your little metal tax disc holder out then"

Some things i just like to keep lol

Also my track car is my daily driver atm so my back gets ruined by the coilovers and buckets, my ears get shot with the ehxaust and strippage, so the AC is my single creature comfort lol

 

[matty172cup]

lol

 

[mini-valver]

Mines a daily driver too, no carpets, dash, heaters ANYTHING. Put up with it, lol.




I lie, its engineless ATM, but it was

 

[chrispy.clio]

I'm trying I'm trying
Tar's next

 

[mini-valver]

Airbag loom, Tar, brown soundproofing from behind the dash (Weighs MASSES), passenger seat runner?



You really dont need the AC!

 

[chrispy.clio]

I was going to take the brown sound proofing out but wasnt sure how to get it out, and it was getting dark at the time.
It will get "properly" stripped when i get a job, a lot of people make Ph1 172's and Valvers track cars so i thought i'd make my 182 a track car to be a tiny bit different. Might not be quite as good but pleases me

Any advice on tar removal? Heat gun or Freezing it and chizzeling it?

 

[Quade]

Just lightly go over it with a heat gun. Should come off pretty easily!

 

[Fletcher]

The interior looks good, apart from the massive standard steering wheel.

 

[Mark One]

Seatbelt point strut brace is a neat idea.

 

[DannyR]

Seatbelt point strut brace is a neat idea.

Lol, its a camera mount!

 

[matty172cup]

i did wonder what that was

 

[Bazzon]

ITBs + aircon......why

why spend money on such a conversion and not get the most out of it

 

[172Ben]

204bhp with air con still attached will do me

 

[Peperami]

Change the steering wheel dude. Standard one is a hefty chunk, and you wont believe the difference a little sparco 330 jobby makes

 

[Timmay]

Lol, its a camera mount!

ha made me laugh too

yeah get the AC out aswell - as been said just keep the window ope

 

[kevin_172]

i also still have my aircon!!!

 

[K-Tec Racing]

The combined weight saving of ditching the AC system and putting the CUP AC delete kit on is 10kg

ITB's are lighter than the std inlet system, although I have never weighed them to know the numbers.

 

[172Ben]

For the sake of 10kg ill keep it.

Ill just get bucket seats instead

 

[sideways danny]

ITBs + aircon......why

why spend money on such a conversion and not get the most out of it

You have no experience of a full comfort equiped ITB car though, so you have no point of reference. It's LUSH having everything nice and having a lump more power on top.

 

[Yosemite Sam]

ITBs + aircon......why

why spend money on such a conversion and not get the most out of it

Unless people do things your way, its the wrong way.

The guy wants aircon. End.

 

[Guppy]

I like air con

Yes...Im gay

 

[Bazzon]

You have no experience of a full comfort equiped ITB car though, so you have no point of reference. It's LUSH having everything nice and having a lump more power on top.

I dont use the aircon on my 182.........

Unless people do things your way, its the wrong way.

The guy wants aircon. End.

Never said it was the right way, i gave my opinion

 

[Whiteley]

Unless people do things your way, its the wrong way.

The guy wants aircon. End.

BIG +1.

 

[chrispy.clio]

The interior looks good, apart from the massive standard steering wheel.

Yeah a dished wheel is coming soon. hopefully from the new group buy

 

[chrispy.clio]

Oooo also you may laugh at the camera mount but it cost me £14 for the materials and the neerest camera mount for bucketed uncages clios is 150ish quid

 

[franx]

^^ that mount's great :approve:

 

[rich_1989]

well bens clio is pretty fookin quick, and he has aircon, i wouldnt say no!.... (to ben that is )