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Just a repair kit and battery are in the back
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The rear seats should be worth ~40lbs, if you’re willing to make it a 2-seater
If you're pulling the rear seats you may as well pull the rear window motors
I won’t say I’m not considering it…but even if you never have rear passengers, opening the rear windows has its advantages. You can cut wind noise/buffering and get some fresh air without a face full of air (nice in winter) by cracking front and rear windows.
I’d be down with some manual crank windows though.
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Glad to see this pop up already. Even tho I’d like to keep mine simple/functional as it’ll be the daily, I’ve always been into weight reduction in past cars.
Curious to see how doable the 3000lbs range will be without sacrificing a bunch of comfort/safety
Curious to see how doable the 3000lbs range will be without sacrificing a bunch of comfort/safety
No spare, just a repair kit. They moved the battery to where the spare would go
Carbon door cards with crank windows sounds like a great conversion
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The light is easily fixed with a resistor.
Pretty light seats though relatively speaking for OEM, you can save quite a bit if you are willing to go to a race bucket - not recommended for a street car.
True, but we're talking about taking out all kinds of comfort and functionality to remove weight that you won't even notice lol. The two/three extra window motors and mechanisms are quite heavy, I'd ditch those before I'd lose A/C.
Since this is going to be a family daily for me I'm probably just going to opt for lighter wheels for track days, a lighter battery, and remove the rear seats as well as passenger seat. That should easily net you over 100lbs in savings which can all be reversed in about an hour to stock if your handy with an electric impact.
So Toyota just announced the ultra-limited-edition “Morizo Edition” which trims “about 100 lbs” by deleting the rear seats, removing rear door speakers, rear window regulators, and rear wiper motor and wiper arm (and BBS forged wheels)
I now feel vindicated by my desire to do these exact things for weight reduction, we might even be able to do it “OEM Plus” by using the wiper block-off plug and rear seat delete cover.
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I now feel vindicated by my desire to do these exact things for weight reduction, we might even be able to do it “OEM Plus” by using the wiper block-off plug and rear seat delete cover.
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Im thinking i might want this since its factory and id still be in stock class. But i really want rear wipers, so would putting that back take me out of stock? Lol. Stuff like that sometimes happens, you get taken out of stock class for weird mods.
Guess we'll have to see when the car comes out. Guess you can always take the rear wiper back off to compete though
its fun to be competitive in your class and PAX well, but some of the mods that bump you up don’t make any sense, which makes it less fun for casual racers that like to modify their cars for pleasure beyond autoX.
i am uncertain what SCCA solo category you would land in if you “add” the rear seat/window motor/speaker/wiper delete, since technically they are OEM options. I think for Street you would need the carbon roof and rear braces …kind of silly since you’re not even getting the full benefit of the ME but you still get classed up. I’d love it if Toyota offers a stand-alone rear seat delete package on the Core
i am uncertain what SCCA solo category you would land in if you “add” the rear seat/window motor/speaker/wiper delete, since technically they are OEM options. I think for Street you would need the carbon roof and rear braces …kind of silly since you’re not even getting the full benefit of the ME but you still get classed up. I’d love it if Toyota offers a stand-alone rear seat delete package on the Core
If you're able to option it back on from the factory would you be alright? Or factory option the other deletes onto a Core or Circuit?
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Yup, if its factory options you can usually do it.
Our region is not too uptight about it and im not so good to be contending for top spots anyway so i doubt anyone would care if i put rear wipers on and it would be considered non stock.
So if im able to get an ME, id prob put rear wiper back on and just run it.
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Oh darn, injust skimmed a summary and theres a clause about 1,000 produced for USA. So Toyota, to meet these pseudo Solo II homologation rules, you need to build at least 1,000!
It’s been many moons since I autox’d (and when I did I was in an uncompetitive car classed in STU, or FSAE which plays by its own rules), but I think the 1000 production would cover all GR Corollas rather than 1000 of each specific edition.
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I'm not 100% sure how it works, but I know some cars are split out even by trim level and options. For example, the Mustang is in like 5 classes, one for the stock Mustang, one for the GT, one for GT with performance pack, one for the GT350 and one for the GT500. Granted, several of those trim levels are major bumps in performance and basically different cars, but Mustang GT to Mustang GT with PP is the one I was thinking of specifically. Same power number, but slightly bigger wheels and brakes.
Yeah if anything, I think the ME would sit in its own class due to the torque increase and the 100lb difference
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