Took front passenger seat out yesterday. Need to take out whatever i can to make this thing a little lighter for personal reasons.


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Skyy

 

rear seat pads weigh a little, you could try taking out cd stackers, if you have, empty glove box, center console, take out heavy floor mats, light weight rims?

speakers if you want, and don't need, magnets can make them heavy, etc.

good luck!

Don't know what you're disassembling for but power door/window motor and arms weigh a significant more than manual consider a swap if possible?

 

What year 850 GLT? Personally, I don't see the purpose of weight reduction in 850's unless heavily modified. But to each their own. What are you doing to it?

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I do odd and obscure things to cars :P I have a client that needs a lightweight rig for drifting without making the car look horrible.

 

Drifting in an 850? They're FWD.

 

Roll cage? Driving a gutted car is A LOT of fun!

 

If you really want to gut a car, read that link I posted, that guy has gone to extremes to gut that car.

 

seriously, between the weight and the drivetrain, i can't imagine many cars worse for drifting.

tell your "client" to eat less and buy a rwd volvo.

 

E-brake FTW.

 

850's aren't that heavy...
lighter that most new cars...

 

Seriously, how is he going to drift in a FWD? He wants a 900/700/200 if he wants to drift. Not to mention there are FEW manual transmission 850 Turbos out there.

 

spinning rear wheels > skidding rear wheels

 

+1. An 850 is the wrong car for drifting. If it has to be a Volvo, then start with a 240 or 740.

 

a high powerd lowerd XC series might do the trick to. better than a fwd at least haha

 

an 850 is a great drift(powerslide) car. 30 mph in reverse just requires more skill as a driver to powerslide.

heh

 

In other words, an AWD R.

 

Or XC, only difference between the XCs and Rs is trim, suspension, and a tune....oh, and about 3k dollars.

 

How do you significantly increase power and lower an XC without spending money? Drifting an AWD requires lots more power than for a similar weight RWD, so the XC better have more than a larger cat-back exhaust, such as bigger turbo, full exhaust, tune, and maybe different injectors. Then drop a new suspension into it. Oh, snap, I just spent so much that I should've started with an R!

 

Not necessarily. The AWD on Volvos isn't 50/50. We used to have an XC and it wasn't to difficult to throw the back out on it. And yeah, a straight up RWD will be easier to drift with than any FWD/AWD Volvo. But this is all besides the point, we're arguing about drifting a FWD/AWD car here, which is nonsense. Any 98+ car is pointless for drifting. You have to go 200/700/900 for a drifter.

 

+1

We finally got there.

I have a co-worker who owns a Honda Civic and as he puts it...he is a Drifter. I laughed because if you understand the concept of Drifting, its a controlled spinning/steering combination. Attempting this in a front wheel drive car is simply skidding out of control or E-Braking as we used to call it many years ago.

An 850 is the wrong car for this (Civic too)