You live near SF, East Bay? I could use a passenger side fender liner. When my lower ball joint popped out, the tired rubbed the hell out of mine, haha. PM sent.
You have the cruise control and ABS on the LH side and on the RH side you have the charcoal canister and vacuum reservoir and the associated lines along with the air silencer. I would expect increased chances of sucking up water with the fender liners out. You may have already changed the induction system though.
I pulled them off late this afternoon and in addition to losing 3.3Lbs per fender liner removed, I also found over a pound of dirt behind that spongy material that separates the wheel well from the door gap.
* I check to see if we need the stuff under the front bumper cover. I assume it's some styrofoam bit and there's an underlying metal bumper as well, right?
* I've already ordered a PS cooler and it's install is on the TO DO list.
* "opening in the PS pump" I'll have to check that out. You mean so when it blows it doesn't spray everywhere right?
* What's the headlight header? I went through the shop manual and the only thing that sounds close to what you've mentioned is the "photocell / amplifier" that seems to control the Daytime running lights. I'm not sure this car even has that but can you clarify things here?
for a track only car, depending on how much time you have, and the tools you can use, there is a ton of weight to be removed off these cars.
you just have to think outside the box a little,.
While we are discussing weight loss for a track car, is there any reason I may want to keep the underhood heat liner?
If I understand things correctly, the downsides of NO liner are:
* hood will become very hot to touch if I don't get some airflow underneath the hood.
* paint could start to discolor (don't care for me).
The upside is weight loss
I probably won't screw with it until I decide what to do with the hood (cut outs, ghetto cowl hood, or maybe just standoffs) but I just wanted to poll you folks.
Thanks,
-g
I havn't had mine in for years, no cooling problems, no discoloration, nothing. It's more there for sound deadening and in the event of a fire, a fire blanket.
It's about as weighty as a sheet of paper though :tongue:
Hey, if I'm scraping the tar off the bottom of the car and considering disassembly of the A/C compressor, OCD enough to trim "sheets of paper" off the car.
-g
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