Any way to drop weight from an e30 convertible?

[Thizzelle]

probably the price of the copper wire to go to the trunk, bitches were getting cheap as you can see in the e36

[dnguyen1963]

Removed weight, moved battery to trunk. win

If it is this simple then why did BMW go through all the trouble to relocate the battery to the front?

[Wiglaf]

Removed weight, moved battery to trunk. win

[dnguyen1963]

You don't buy a convertible to race so what's the point of removing dead weight? All E30s, including convertibles, are perfectly balanced. Removing dead weight will un-balanced the car. You'll lose any benefit of weight loss.

[jeffnhiscars]

Isn't that chunk of steel there for a reason? Why would BMW put it there in the first place if it wasn't needed?

Not saying it's a bad idea, necessarily. I know it's there to balance out the weight of the battery being moved to the engine compartment... so it's a handling thing, right?

The plan was to issue a service bulletin on US cars to,swap out the steel, then store it to build the plant in Spartanburg

[mr2peak]

Take the top off entirely...

This. Get a hardtop for rainy days.

[DER E30]

Take the top off entirely...

[smooth]

I dont get why bmw didnt just put the battery there instead of the shake weight........

best guess is it needs both weights on either end to correct the issue

I put my battery in the rear, removed the spare (car is too low to the ground to get a road jack under it anyway), and put an x-brace along the bottom and strut bar across the top. eventually I'll probably modify reinforcement ties from the strut towers to the firewall.

[bastianshaw]

I dont get why bmw didnt just put the battery there instead of the shake weight........

[KIRIEIW]

I always thought of that weight was there to counter the weight of the muffler?

[Liquidity]

ask your boyfriend.

zing!

[meanEG]

you could do the occasional ghost ride

[AndrewBird]

I've always heard that removing 100lbs is like adding 10hp to the engine. Seems logical, but who knows.

[Nick_S]

I went on a lightweight kick last year. I removed:
-A/C and all related accessories from the engine bay
-P/S
-Washer tank
-Sub and box
-spare
-tools
and any unnecessary crap from my car. There is a large scale at a science museum downtown Columbus you can drive onto. It's accurate to within 20lbs. removing all that saved me around 200lbs +/- a few. It did make a noticeable difference in how the car felt. More responsive and felt a tad quicker. I have since put the spare, sub and tools back in.

[Ether-D]

There's always the LeBaron...