Removing the rear seats???

[Deleted member 53697]

Hi guys,
Our car club is going to The Fast Show at Santa Pod this weekend and I fancy taking my Cupra down the strip
In a bid to run a mid to low 13's time, i'm trying to save as much "easy" weight as possible.
This leads me to my question - how difficult is it to remove the rear seats? What do you have to do, how many bolts etc.
Cheers,
Patrick

 

[Cupra Chris]

For the bench you can just pull it out. Start from the backrest base first, then yank it out at the front.

For the backrest you have one screw (spline/torx - quite small) at the hinge point which is under a plastic cover.

You need a large sline drive (about 60mm??) to undo the middle seatbelt from the chassis.

By the way, the sound is awesome when you take everything out!

 

[bmb779]

Seat belt multi spline is a M10 socket.

 

[FR_Flavoured]

In a bid to run a mid to low 13's time, i'm trying to save as much "easy" weight as possible.

....perhaps let someone else drive?

 

[Cupra Chris]

Hi guys,
Our car club is going to The Fast Show at Santa Pod this weekend and I fancy taking my Cupra down the strip
In a bid to run a mid to low 13's time, i'm trying to save as much "easy" weight as possible.

To be honest it doesnt remove much weight as the spare wheel is a space saver. Maybe 30-40kgs Max.

Are you stage 2?

 

[Cupra Chris]

You need a large sline drive (about 60mm??) to undo the middle seatbelt from the chassis.

I meant 6mm but M10 sounds right

 

[Al]

You need the spline as mentioned above, and some torx/allen key bits also. Can't remember which ones now.

Take the front passenger seat out also - M10 spline as memory serves. The back seat/front seat combo probably comes close to 40kg. Run low fuel/screen wash. Run lower pressure in front tyres and higher pressure in the rears (25/40PSI). Remove CD's/Spare Wheel/Jack/Parcel shelf etc too. Take some laxitives the night before and be sure to empty your guts out before the day and wear trainers, light weight trousers and a t shirt or something similar. If you have long hair, get it cut. It all counts

Run octane booster/BP102 if you can find it and wind on the timing a bit too

 

[Cupra Chris]

You need the spline as mentioned above, and some torx/allen key bits also. Can't remember which ones now.

Take the front passenger seat out also - M10 spline as memory serves. The back seat/front seat combo probably comes close to 40kg. Run low fuel/screen wash. Run lower pressure in front tyres and higher pressure in the rears (25/40PSI). Remove CD's/Spare Wheel/Jack/Parcel shelf etc too. Take some laxitives the night before and be sure to empty your guts out before the day and wear trainers, light weight trousers and a t shirt or something similar. If you have long hair, get it cut. It all counts

Run octane booster/BP102 if you can find it and wind on the timing a bit too

yeah, you can do all that..................and then it will rain!

 

[Poverty]

You need the spline as mentioned above, and some torx/allen key bits also. Can't remember which ones now.

Take the front passenger seat out also - M10 spline as memory serves. The back seat/front seat combo probably comes close to 40kg. Run low fuel/screen wash. Run lower pressure in front tyres and higher pressure in the rears (25/40PSI). Remove CD's/Spare Wheel/Jack/Parcel shelf etc too. Take some laxitives the night before and be sure to empty your guts out before the day and wear trainers, light weight trousers and a t shirt or something similar. If you have long hair, get it cut. It all counts

Run octane booster/BP102 if you can find it and wind on the timing a bit too

So you and Owen did all that to get your 12.9's ontop of crail being slightly downhill lol

 

[Al]

Crail is not downhill like everyone thinks it is. Start and finish elevations are the same, but there is a hump in the middle.

Times at Crail pair up quite nicely with ones done at the pod and cars which have run both have times within hundredths and thousandths of the other.

Owen and I did all that as well as lighter wheels, stickier tyres, lighter batteries, no a/c core etc etc etc. Owen even ran a single lightweight seat and a WOT Box . JonnyC went further to get his time as memory serves - sure he removed his bumper bars etc

 

[Al]

And LSD, uprated clutches, uprated suspension, hollow ARB's, WALK's, uprated engine mounts, no cat, yada yada yada.

 

[joolsvern]

Wouldn't it be easier to simply buy a faster car??

 

[Al]

But there is no fun in that . In addition, you can spank things like VXR8 Supercharged Vauxhalls in a nicely fettled Cupra . You would struggle to go faster for cheaper unless you buy in to an older Evo and live with the running costs or take a tuned VXR220 or similar and live with a small car.

 

[Poverty]

Wouldn't it be easier to simply buy a faster car??

but where do you stop?

 

[Cupra R]

but where do you stop?

Agreed.

If you had a faster car you'd still want to make it faster. If you have got the bug, you have got it It doesn't matter what car you have, some people will always want to modify it for whatever reason, hence why all the After Market Companies do so well for all Marques.

 

[Deleted member 53697]

I'm taking the gf with me to le pod so passenger seat must stay unfortunately...
I'm looking forward to listening to the exhaust on my two dearer sports car
You coming Jason or you still goin to that VAGina show?

 

[Poverty]

Unsure if Im gonna be there tomorrow, was throwing up last night so it all depends on wether I can manage to eat a proper meal tonight.

If I do go I will be with the GF also!

 

[Gary@Cookies]

Wouldn't it be easier to simply buy a faster car??

Or just keep the Cupra for reasonably quick everyday use and buy a bike for when you want to go fast!

My CB1300 makes those sort of times seem slow even with my lard arse on board.

 

[Al]

^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Spot on

My elderly 2005 R1 will run mid 10 second 1/4 miles @ near 140mph all day

 

[Ben CTR]

Got a vid of one of your runs here Pat..