How light can you make an F?

Wondering can you get an MGF down to circa 750kgs?

removing engine is not a valid answer lol...

what do people do to lighten the F? seems a very lardy car for its size...

Hell my fully laiden Excel is only 1050kgs, and thats got nearly 200kgs of leather and sound-deadening!
When done mine will be 900kgs with a V8 and supercharger! Just wondering if i can lighten the F so its not so embarasingly slow...

Oz

I know Adam-MGTF was looking at going down that route, but I don't know whether he got far, tbh.:shrug:

I think the spare tyre and wheel is around 16 kilos or so.

I weighed a 15" alloy wheel and tyre (front) some months ago, but cant find the post,:shrug: i was also going to weigh a rear wheel and tyre , a standard 14" steel spare and tyre and also one of the 15" six spokes that i bought from a 2004 TF ~ will trawl through my od posts to see if i can find it :rant: :rant: :bust:

Depends how practicle you want the car?

You could remove all the sound deadening, the hood, electric window winders, spare wheel, carpet, boot liner, under bonnet trim, stereo and even the door cards.

Then replace the side windows with perspex and fit light weight seats although the standard ones aren't that heavy anyway.

You could even remove the boot completly and have a massive engine bay and replace doors, boot and bonnet with carbon fibre.

Then go on a diet and drive in socks only!

You're crazy! :blink:























What do you need socks for? :bust:

I was thinking of Clive when I made that post.







MY EYES!!!!!!! :omg:

767 kg is a mgf stripped down to race we have built 3

cool, how useable is that day to day?

for me all i need is a heater, radio is nice but non-essential, needs to be weather tight, and would like to keep hood...

dont need sound deadening (used to lotus philosophy, of squeeks, rattles and clonks over bumps...)

just wondered how much lard can be removed... want to keep boot space too...

what could i remove to strip it down and keep it road legal?

remove hood,window and electric windows,heater,and seats fit one race seat,all carpet,and all trim,roll cage .you have a race spec light car,if you want to go further make sub frame out of ali .sports exhaust is another saving.

Rich in Vancouver wrote: Then go on a diet and drive in socks only!

Now, that is a novel idea :thumbsup: