Weight Reduction Experiment!!!

[1SICKSS]

I ran a 9.09(81.5mph) in the 1/8 mile yesterdy at Irwindale. It was my very first time to track (racing my car, six speed). My 60' time was 2.3. I have street tires(i wish I had some dough for some drag radials).I was disappointed with the numbers but hopefully i can fix the driver mod (me!!!) with some practice Anyways, I wanted to do an experiment and get rid of some weight in my car. So I started...this is what i removed...
1) sub box which included 2 10 inch subs, the box, and the amp was connected to the box, i weighed it as a whole=60lbs. yea it is heavy, just ask larry.he can back me up on that
2) i raced at a full tank last night so next time i will race at 1/4 tank. so thats about 10 gallons in difference. 1 gallon equals 10 pounds. yea i looked on the internet and saw that and i thought they were bsing. then i wieghed a half gallon of milk and it weighed 5 lbs, so i guess its right. so thats 10times 10= 100 lbs
3) my car washer fluid was all the way full. i dunno how much that is but ill say 5 pounds?= so lets take 5 i guess maybe even more.
4) i cleaned out all the crap in glvoe department and the middle console. overall i took out a lot of change, and ALOT OF misc. stuff, also a little ball , and a dust brush, shoes, cd's,etc,etc= 5 lbs at most i guess.
note: im not doing this to strip my car just to take out some weight that is unnecessary. i am not taking out the back seats or anything, I am jsut wanted to see how much weight i can reduce from race 1 (which was yesterday) and sunday at fontana that has a 1/4 mile.

so oveall i reduced the wieght of the car about 170 lbs give or take some.
Tomorrow I am going to weigh my car, he owns a recycling center and has a full body scale, so i will give u guys the full race weight tomorrow. just thought i would let u guys on some lil project i wanted to do

[lyger1983]

i thought a gallon weighed 8 pounds, maybe gas is different. good luck on it man!

[GradeZ28]

milk, water, and gas are not the exact same weight because they are made of different compounds

heres a link i found real quick about the weight of gas
http://www.faqs.org/qa/qa-2617.html

[1SICKSS]

cool, yea there are variations. and yea they do have different compounds. so i estimated 170ish, could be higher or lower i guess

[thelastz28]

Take the hood and doors off too. LOL.

There's gonna be drags on Sunday in Fontana? Crap, I gotta work.

[Mdeleon]

rule of thrumb 100 lbs weight = .10 seconds faster if removed

[kylewoody]

Good deal man! Wish you luck, she should run a bit quicker.

BTW, gasoline is roughly 6 pounds per gallon.

Kyle

[Bowtie_Z28]

Good luck, Matt and I did some weight reducing too, but that is because we were tearing my interior out for the roll cage install! Lets hear those new numbers when you get back