Jet Jockey/A4 Pilot

<b>I'm taking my car to the next level and there is no coming back!</b> Even if you don't agree with my project it is informative because you get to see how the car is built. Some of you are going to think I'm nuts and sometimes I wonder myself but my goal is to get the car under 3000 lbs and maybe closer to 2900 lbs. I may in the future cut out some of the inner sheet metal (trunk, doors hood and so on) to get the weight down towards my target and I may even remove the AC system. I have to see what happens when we remove the dash but that's for later.

<b>Let the strip tease begin... :-)</b>


Bare trunk lid.

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Bare trunk, left side.

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Bare trunk, right side.

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Curtain air bag system.

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Close of the curtain air bag and its firing mechanism. The inertial reel also as some sort of firing mechanisms. Now I'm going to have to figure out how to fool every air bag connector into thinking the system is working normally. The inertial reels are going to come out at a later date because I need them in place because my shoulder harness bar that I got made a few months ago is secure to that system.

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Curtain air bag all the way to the front dash.

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Curtain air bag once removed. It is ~ 9 feet long.

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Interior floor carpeting removed. It's one piece, it's thick, and it's heavy. My guess it's about 20 lbs and the whole thing looks like two bath tubs stuck side by side although not quit as high as a bath tub (about half the height).

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Front passenger side. The paper junk that was left in the car at the factory among things found. The heating system duct that brings the air to the back seat floor area. The connection area for the front seat and the air bags.

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General view from the back looking forward.

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View of the driver's seat area. As on the right side we see the seat connections (air bag and others), the heat duct to the rear and an additional plastic box tat contains all the climate control connectors.

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The roof liner removed.

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What's left under the roof liner. Part insulation part, part soundproofing, this will be removed today hopefully.

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Stripped door. I may take the grinder and trim out the undesired weight out of there and install lexan windows. But this will have to wait for now.

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With the Sparco back in the driver's slot. It will be moved over to the passenger side when the new Recaro arrives. Both rear seat air ducts on the right and on the left were removed.

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General view from the rear.

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Some of the door panels and trims.

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The front passenger seat, 55 to 60 lbs.

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Other parts and trims removed during the stripping process.

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Another miscellaneous part found underneath the carpeting that was left behind at the factory.

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initialA4

Mmm race car now?

OutlawDon

What year and model is your car? Engine mods? I like the hardcore-ness you bring to the table. How much weight do you think you are saving stripping it completely bare now? And I wonder how the front/rear weight distribution has been changed.

quattrothatcould

Let us know that the weight ends up being

Jet Jockey/A4 Pilot

Well I will buy it in a few months.

Tgr_Clw

Nah. Return it as is ;-)

Tgr_Clw

Great work.

boostorbust

You just made your B6 a race car only anyway. Why do this to a perfectly good B6 versus buying a beat down B5 to race with, I don't understand, but to each his own i guess

520

One thing I would also remove is this heat/noise insulation - its rather heavy!
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You could leave it on the trans tunnel and firewall but remove it from the floor boards.

Also, you may consider removing all the wiring that will not be used. Complete harness out of my 1990 Coupe Quattro weighted in at some ~40-50lbs! I bet B6's have even more wires there.

Another big ticket item is AC, of course. Also, if you can score some manual window frames from Europe that would be big saving over power windows.

Jet Jockey/A4 Pilot

Yes I'm going to work on removing all the rubber crap, wiring too and perhaps the AC and Lexan.