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Old Nov 18, 2007 | 12:32 PM
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Originally Posted by Matt D
Stock cloth power driver: 40lbs
Stock cloth manual passenger: 30lbs

Lightweight RCI aluminum race seat, cover, and bracket: 13lbs
i have a cloth lt1 seat, that i removed the 3 motors from and extra metal from the rails and got that down to 13lbs as well

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Old Nov 18, 2007 | 03:23 PM
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Originally Posted by Demonicbird00
i have a cloth lt1 seat, that i removed the 3 motors from and extra metal from the rails and got that down to 13lbs as well

-brandon
Yeah I was going to say because the sticky says 34/19 pounds and I was coming up with around 40/30.

So you took out the motors and extra bracing and the seat was 13 pounds less? or you got the seat down to 13 pounds?
Old Nov 24, 2007 | 08:24 PM
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Originally Posted by Demonicbird00
i have a cloth lt1 seat, that i removed the 3 motors from and extra metal from the rails and got that down to 13lbs as well

-brandon
If you got a stock seat down to 13 lbs please do tell. You can save me a few dollars on buying light weight ones. Plus keeping the stock look.
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Don't know if it's in here or not (don't have time to read through it all) but....

Just compared my stock steel TA hood which weighed ~43lbs with a US Exotics Superhawk fiberglass hood which weighed ~37 lbs.

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Old Jan 8, 2008 | 10:43 PM
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Originally Posted by Humming Bird
i took a crap on my scale today. it weighed 4 #'s. also auto drivers dont really need their left legs prob 40 #'s.
im trying to point out that some of these weight reductions are a little crazy. great thread though, very long, and someone needs to go through the whole thing and compact it into a neat little list with links to how-to writeups and websites. that would be sweet.

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