Car booked into weight watchers.

[GemballaPhil]

I've accepted that I can't squeeze much power out of the 2.5 so I'm aiming for weight loss.
Anyone know how much a stock set of leather front seats weigh.

[EssexPorsche]

Don't stop there.....

Ashtray Delete
Sunvisor Delete
GT3 Console delete
De-badge
De snorkle
LWUD Pulley
Lightweight wheels
Ditch the spare
Ditch the wind deflector
Smaller or lightweight battery
Ditch the OEM exhaust

The list is endless although you may have already ticked some of these off!

[mnc-i]

GemballaPhil,

I just replaced the standard seats in my 1999 Boxster with sport seats.

I would estimate each standard seat weighs approximately 35 to 45 lbs.

MNC-I

[thstone]

Standard leather seats with power recline weigh around 45lbs each. Sport or race seats will weight less than half that.

Research what Boxster BSX's remove (Boxster Spec cars that are still street legal). Topless might want to jump in here.

[BrokenLinkage]

Anyone know if the oem Porsche "sport" seats with the shoulder bolster weigh more or less than the standard leather/power back seats?

[truegearhead]

The stock exhaust is impressively heavy. I'd guess 45lbs, the eBay units are about 20 I've stripped quite of my 2.5 and can feel a difference, you can cut quite a bit of weight without sacrificing anything. I really wish you could get a Spyder style top and loose the whole mechanical top assembly. If you really want to go for it there is a lot of weight in the bumpers...but that's probably not a great idea

So far
(60lbs)Stock seats trades for GT3 flebay seats
(10lbs)Cat delete
(25lbs)Exhaust
(10lbs)automatic top motor, gearbox and mechanicals
(5lbs)insulation on firewall
~110lbs

[litespeedp]

Running at about only 1/4 full tank of fuel will drop about 72 lbs.

12 gal @ lbs/gallon.

[The Radium King]

for mr. gear head:

986 Porsche Boxster SPYDER conversion | TuneRS Motorsports – Porsche performance, repair and restoration

[Jittsl]

The previous owner of my old GT3 had some sort of Porsche option that allowed the install of a child seat in the euro GT3 seat.

[GemballaPhil]

Lost 41.5kg this weekend. Sub and amps gone, spare wheel and tool kit. Don't want to lose to much luxury.
I'm gonna just take out the passenger seat when I go track days.

[brian325is]

If you don't want to lose luxury, definutely do not install racing seats!

The car is fine once you are seated, but getting in and out is not so much fun.

Not really very practical for everyday use.