My FB Tibby

[Coal_forge]

My flat black Tibby

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[Coal_forge]

[RTPScoupe]

Sweet strut bar. Have you ran in the 1/4 mile before? Can you notice a good difference in quickness with all that weight reduction?

[g_sasha]

Sweet! Can you please post some daytime photos? I'd love to see it in more detail...

BTW, how did you paint it? Did you use a top coat?

[Coal_forge]

Yeah I can tell a differance... I didn't strip it all at once so it wasn't like night and day I really need to get it to a weigh station. The handling is alot better with out all the crap in it tires have less lateral load on them going around corners, and the car is almost nuetral when it come to understeer and oversteer. By far the best weight reduction was the fidenza flywheel... but that was also the worst since that fell apart. The car seems so slugish now with out it and gear changing sucks now that I loose traction in 3rd.

I can tell you this the back end sits up alot higher without all that stuff in it. I am still try to make it lighter, it is infectious to me. I am thinking next of cutting out the tire well and removing all the stuff behind the dash. I am waiting to get a tubing notcher so I can make a front support for the front strut towers.

I did a rattle can job it looks good on some parts of the car and others it looks horrible I did alot of prep work, but what killed it was the spray nozzle. The kyrlon paint cans come with a regular spray nozzle, so I took wide spray nozzles off one of those automotive spray cans and used them on the krylon can. Well all of those broke by the end of the spray job... so I got stuck with regular spayer to finish the job (I had to finish it my father like to park his car in garage). No top coat really do not need one the paint is a tough finish. When I get a chance next time the paint is going to be rolled on instead of sprayed.
So the fenders bumpers and hatch look even but the rest looks tiger striped. I have more pictures just look on my myspace.

MySpace.com - matt - 21 - Male - Lexington, South Carolina - www.myspace.com/Hyundai

[Coal_forge]

New home made front strut tower bar



I did this with a brush made from my own hair off my head. (I didn't have a brush)


current state of interior

[Coal_forge]

New modified shift lever. This is the nuetral position. (sorry I haven't cleaned the plastic in forever)




quick shot of back, notice every thing metal is nice and clean (i just sprayed the car out.... yes I took a hose to it.)


2 reason for making the bent shift lever.

1. It moves the lever closer to the steering wheel considerably (added bonus of not hitting passangers in the leg while shifting into final)
2. It shortend the throw (sacrificing some leverage of course)

[kellysguy]

Leave the dash alone. It's not that heavy. Heaviest part is PS airbag and glove box door. Everything else is minimal. You might get 20 pounds or so for pulling the whole dash. It's not worth it, especially losing A/C and heat.

I wish my a/c still worked. It gets hot in staging and I wish I could hook my helmet vent to the a/c. I'd like to run w/ a/c when the track is wet to help reduce power. The car has too much power and just spins the tires when the track is wet. Throttle position doesn't matter- too much torque.

[kellysguy]

My car weighs 2295# w/ the roll cage and 2477# in race trim w/ me and fuel.

[Coal_forge]

the glove box door has a metal weight in it you can remove.

I will remove the dash to get any of that sound dedoning out...

I like the passanger side air bag.... I still have passangers every rare while.