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Weight Reduction.



Twingo 1??

ClioSport Club Member
  Twingo 133 Cup,
Where can you lose weight from the front end? Car is a Twingo 133 so not a clio but similar.
Bonnet is all ready mostly done and it's a cup so no aircon and also has electric ps. Needs to remain road legal as its a rally car.
Not looked but is there anything behind the bumpers that's not needed?
 

massiveCoRbyn

ClioSport Club Member
  Several
The eternal problem for FWD cars - all the weight is at the front :ROFLMAO:

There is the usual stuff I guess:

Move the battery inside the car
Ditch bulkhead sound deadening
Front fog lights
Ditch plastic arch liners (if they don't protect anything important)
Move the washer bottle in the car

Other than that, take the bumper off and cut anything off the back of it you can. On my Escort I removed all the foam (the Twingo probably doesn't have that) and then removed all the mounts and replaced them with little brackets so the bumper was only held on by four M6 alloy bolts. Saved some weight but also meant it could be removed a lot quicker, which helped on the maintenance side.
 

Twingo 1??

ClioSport Club Member
  Twingo 133 Cup,
It's got no sound deadening left. I don't mind the battery and washer bottle both still being there just realy after anything that's not needed.
Fog lights I wanted to keep as I have a plan!
I would like to get it down to 850kg so it will be around 190/200bhp per tonne
 


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