Weight Reduction

lude4henro · #1 08-12-2004, 05:32 AM

Anyone who has taken out the rear seats and passenger seats of a 5th gen could kindly instruct me on how?

lude4henro · #2 08-12-2004, 05:44 AM

also how much weight difference is there between oem hood and cf?

dbebesi · #3 08-12-2004, 03:41 PM

well i don't know about 5th gens, but most honda's have a little plastic clip you pull out while putting pressure on the seat. it's kinda hard to explain. just sit in the seat, on the front edge, and feel under the lip and gently put the clip, and then remove pressure, and lift out the seat (bottoms). then there will be bolts holding the backs onto the rear bottom. take them out (note they break easy), and then pop the seat upwards. i'm trying too hard to explain this, it's really quite simple. study the lip, with pressure on it, and it's cake from there.

as far as the hood, prolly like 20-30 pounds, if that. it's merely for looks, unless you're an all out racer.

gunnmen01 · #4 08-12-2004, 06:34 PM

only the prelude seats come out like that... but thats right.. they do kinda suck and those clips break easy too

gunnmen01

lude4henro · #5 08-16-2004, 01:39 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by dbebesi

well i don't know about 5th gens, but most honda's have a little plastic clip you pull out while putting pressure on the seat. it's kinda hard to explain. just sit in the seat, on the front edge, and feel under the lip and gently put the clip, and then remove pressure, and lift out the seat (bottoms). then there will be bolts holding the backs onto the rear bottom. take them out (note they break easy), and then pop the seat upwards. i'm trying too hard to explain this, it's really quite simple. study the lip, with pressure on it, and it's cake from there.

as far as the hood, prolly like 20-30 pounds, if that. it's merely for looks, unless you're an all out racer.

is that how you take the passenger seat out or the rear seats?

pikkagtr · #6 08-18-2004, 04:56 AM

rear seats, but that will only get you straight line performance
you will throw off your car's balance
the 5th ge is a very good handling car for it's weight but by removing a lot of rearward weight you will put too much weight up front and cause ur car to understeer
IMO dont do it unless you only plan to go straight

SBallerk2 · #7 08-18-2004, 11:32 AM

dude...ur not going to be racing 24/7...I say keep ur rear seats and throw in some honey's Fri. and Sat. Night

lude4henro · #8 08-20-2004, 03:08 PM

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Originally Posted by SBallerk2

dude...ur not going to be racing 24/7...I say keep ur rear seats and throw in some honey's Fri. and Sat. Night

Haha...but have you sat in the back before? there is NO ROOM for passenagers to fit and if you move your seat up your legs will be cramped against the steering wheel...not comfortable

lude4henro · #9 08-20-2004, 03:09 PM

why is my prelude hood so heavy? are they all like that? how much do they weigh? im guessing 40-50lbs

lude4henro · #10 08-20-2004, 03:13 PM

the seats dont weigh that much do they? it hink the spare tire weighs more...

dbebesi · #11 08-20-2004, 05:49 PM

seriously, leave it all alone. you could ditch the spare, seats, carpet, trim panels, hood swap, dash

and prolly only gain MAYBE 0.15 in a quarter mile. and the car would look like shit. you could prolly gain 0.5 just by learning different shifting techniques. i'm not trying to rip on you, it's just most people don't know how to properly get the best time via shifting in a quater.

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