Putting a Newage on a Diet

[STi_Bandit]

What things can you do to a Newage subaru to make it lighter, not looking to strip out interiors and such like just remove any exse weight like boot liner maybe dont fancy leaving the spare tire out, Still want to keep the interior looking standard.

Martin

[st3ph3n]

The space saver weighs loads. I had mine out for 6 months and only put it back in for a recent road trip. Does it even fit over the calipers on the front of an STI? Get  yourself a can of that expanding tyre filler stuff.

Moving swiftly on - your wheels. Swapping to a nice set of forged jap numbers will save a good few kilos per corner, and as we all know 1kg saved off the rolling mass is like 10 everywhere else.

De-wing it too, or replace it with a CF one. My CF wing weighs in about 1/2 of what the standard WRX ironing board did.

[drb5]

Supposebly theres a rather large subframe under the engine, which isn't really needed and weighs about 25 kilos IIRC. I reckon AndyF removed his from his WRX...dunno if he came across any problems after taking it off.

[STi_Bandit]

Is the subframe not there as crash protection like a crumple zone, wouldt want to go removing anything like that

Martin

[drb5]

Maybe give Andy a shout, as i really wouldn't like to say either way mate.

[col666]

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