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How light weight can a jimny get on a budget?
- OlaGB
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Still keeping 235/75MT`s and lockers. Maybe even go light weight seats,
What approx weight wouls we be looking at?
Considering selling the car, vs going a bit more extreme purpose instead.
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One of the last 200ish of the gen3s, probably.
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Front doors are very heavy too
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I know right....going too far!Daniel30 wrote: Remove the radio!!
I've built WRC cars and part of the spec was a radio lol
Budget isn't the problem.....hows your skill-set?
Oh and it's going to take lots of time!
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How about starting with a soft top and strip it all bar the driver seat
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Daniel30 wrote:
How about starting with a soft top and strip it all bar the driver seat
You took the words straight out of my
IF IT AINT BROKE, KEEP FIXING IT UNTIL IT IS
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Lambert wrote: My Dreadnaught weighs 1160kg, that's without any rear seats and recaro seats in the front. I have calculated in round figures that if I were to really try I could lose another 200kg and still have a relatively comfortable car. Going full race car it might be possible to get another hundred or so retaining the 4x4, going 4x2 would save loads more..
My rigged car is almost 200kg more than Dreadnaught... But the winch is almost half of that increase ofcourse.. and then the 235 mud wheels. And then ofcourse, a heavy stereo system. I absolutely have a easy 100kg for removal if i want.
Where are you able to find another 200kg? Thats a huuge number.
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It all seems a bit futile when you are carrying a massive winch and presumably some pretty hefty batteries to power it. I'd concentrate on getting the weight as low and central as possible e.g. batteries in the rear footwells.
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