strippin out the interior the best idea

[jonahx]

I read an interesting artical in topgear magazine about stripping out the dead weight, they used a pug 207 GTI, ran round the track as standard and then striped eveythiing out and ran around the track again, result was exactly the same lap time, stig said that once the weight had gone it upset the balance of the car so it didn't handle well in the bends, hence the same lap time as a result, I know you can do a lot to change setup but only for track use you wouldn't want it set like that on the road. just thought it was interesting result as i automatically thought stripping out the weight would make it lighter and obvousily faster but i never thought about the unballanced handling!!

 

[Marv-C]

There are a few people here who probably don't want to read this :S

 

[Yellow Dave]

The problem being that the majority of the weight lost is over the back and not across both axles. Would be fine if it then had after market suspension and set up accordingly.

 

[Chesh]

My 306 handled so much better stripped out

 

[Inferno]

The problem being that the majority of the weight lost is over the back and not across both axles. Would be fine if it then had after market suspension and set up accordingly.

Or even with the very expensive option of reducing the rear tyre pressures.