gutted...

[strutman]

I gutted the pro, trunk, backseats... everything in the back cd player, speakers,

also going to get a 2.5 inch exhaust from downpipe back

[loganss]

U took the spare out too? and the trunk padding?

[Mazda96Protege]

is this just gonna be your race car or your daily driver??

[Chad]

is this just gonna be your race car or your daily driver??

thats one thing i dont get, why people go and STrip EVERYTHING out of there car, adn then still use it as a daily driver, lol i mean i could see if its a race car only but i mean how much faster would it really make your car if its a daily driver, is it worth the loss of comfort?

[matt_fulghum]

I've stripped my car out because I'm heading off to college next year and I won't be able to bring it with me. I still plan to keep it street legal though. Aside from extra road noise it shouldn't be in any way less comfortable.

[loganss]

I've taken out my back seat, rear door panels, and floor door guards. I still drive the pro everyonce in a while. I don't want to take the spare out though.

[Mazda96Protege]

thats one thing i dont get, why people go and STrip EVERYTHING out of there car, adn then still use it as a daily driver, lol i mean i could see if its a race car only but i mean how much faster would it really make your car if its a daily driver, is it worth the loss of comfort?

Yeh haha thats what im saying i can see people stripping out some stuff that you dont need but i mean when you go stripping the backseats/passenger seat then the car is pretty much worthless if you have a family cause no one else can ride with you, and in strutmans case he stripped out his cd player and speakers i dotn think they wieght enough to actually weight the car down so i would have left that in the car......i dont know what i would do with out music haha....

and loganss - yeh i woulditn want to take the spare out either, cause usually with my luck i would get a flat lol

[Project Protoge]

According to my 1/4 mile calculator if you were to remove 100lbs and had the stock hp you would reduce your time by .24 seconds. That is aproximately the difference of 4 horsepower. Yeah 4 measily horspower for a completely gutted car. The backseat is a peice of foam. how much does that weigh? Their is absolutaly no point to gutting the car unless it is a track car which I would highly doubt.

[Mazda96Protege]

According to my 1/4 mile calculator if you were to remove 100lbs and had the stock hp you would reduce your time by .24 seconds. That is aproximately the difference of 4 horsepower. Yeah 4 measily horspower for a completely gutted car. The backseat is a peice of foam. how much does that weigh? Their is absolutaly no point to gutting the car unless it is a track car which I would highly doubt.

Exactly

[strutman]

i originally just took out my busted speakers, then i said hmmz i wonder... and it went from there... the car is no less comfortable though... i have 2 holes in the dash from the tape deck and cd player tho. i'll figure something out for that... blah... the front 2 seats are there
one for me and one for my girl which is usually the only people who ride in my car, i rarely have more than one person around who doesn't have a vehicle. The entire back is gutted, but the front is normal. no loss of comfort since i only have one other person in the car at a time. i never used my speakers much anyway.

[strutman]

oh and i left the spare donut...might need that and it wont make a difference... i do need to get a t bar or something tho for my lug nuts... damn aftermarket rims, so it's actually useless until i find one to fit them.

[Chad]

how can riding around with no cd player possably be comfortable lol

[strutman]

i never really use it anyway, i'd rather hear the world around me than listen to mindless crap

[MazdaRacer]

The sound of a BP or KL screamin at high rpm is way more music than a CD player could ever produce...and i'm a diehard audiophile and music fanatic!!!!

[Mazda96Protege]

The sound of a BP or KL screamin at high rpm is way more music than a CD player could ever produce...and i'm a diehard audiophile and music fanatic!!!!

Yeh, you do have a point there i would never turn on the radio if i could just listen to that, but unfortunatly if i dont have my music turned up loud enough i have to hear the Z5 struggling to get up to high rpm, and ontop of that my door panals seem to rattle lol, oh and my heatshield over my cat seems to rattle also (sounds horrible) so yeh i guess it all just depends haha