Good in car sounds vs. stripped interior

If you want to save wieght, stip it all out, and buy an Ipod.. thats what a mate of mine did, he bought some decent head phones too.
think this might be a bit extream though

And a bit illegal!

If you're driving the car daily i'd go with a bit of music in it cos stripped out modern car noise can get a bit old quickly - i put up with it for about a fortnight before i had to rectify mine!!

toally illegal to have two headphones in I believe... as you can't hear sirens

Make a box out of fiberglass, super light, strong, with good acoustics.

Lot's of how to's on the web aswell, and you can fit the box in to a hole somewhere so it is not too obtrusive.

here are a couple of links -

www.hypersprite.com/auto/tech-z-006/default.asp

volvospeed.com/Mods/fiberglass_speakerbox.html

empegbbs.com/ubbthreads.php/ubb/showflat/Number/282257/site_id/1

Regards

J

Cheers Blow Imp, that is exactly the sort of thing that I was thinking of!

I know the lack of sound deadening on the floor will go against me, but I still think I will be find a good compromise.
There are some pretty good foams on the market now that I may try for the floor, low weight and density but good for sound absorption. Much much lighter than traditional underlay stuff that is bitumen based. Aerospace technologies is the place it's all happening for obvious reasons.

I'd agree with that.

IMO if you want some sound, get some half decent 6.5" Coaxials built in just under the dash with some fibreglass pods created (but ensure that they can still vent behind as most speakers do not work too great in enclosures), and maybe either a small sub in the boot, or some 6.5" speakers on the rear shelf but with bass blockers in below say 150Hz, ensuring they only play the low stuff.

This will sound fine with the interior. After this, you'd need to get the interior back in etc.

I guess (if others read this thread) one way ICE and weight stripping could work is if you had the right kind of excess weight to get rid of to start with.

This is what I may be planning in my Porker (I have 8 way adjustable heated seats. As comfy as they are, they also weigh near 100kg each apparently). I was thinking of either getting 968 ClubSports seats or something similar from the Sparco range, and to ditch the spare. With two amps, a sub and some 3" mids and 6.5" midbass units I reckon it would be a way to offset the weight and still be lighter than stock, and with a better sound than the 10 speaker upgrade that was offered at the time.

Your Toledo sounds a bit Bi Polar!

Personally, I would stick the back seats back in and the rest of the interior and then enjoy a comfortable car for the daily, which can take passengers and has a good stereo.

Removing the back seats and swapping your door cards will do nothing other than make your car less comfortable and nosier. It's such a fractional weight saving so it¡'s also not like you will benefit from performance / handling improvements. Personally unless you're going all out then IMHO its not worth the bother especially on a road car / daily driver.

There also the inevitable point where you are sat in traffic in the morning commute with the exhaust reverberating through the bare metal interior where you look around and think to yourself "What the f**k am I doing?".