Do we have a thread like this already, or similar? If not.... Mk1 Golf OEM Pattern Fibreglass Carbon Polycarb etc Front wings (ea) 4kg 1.6kg Bonnet ~11kg 5.6kg* Hatch ~7kg excl glass 4.0kg* excl glass Doors 23kg Windows 20.7kg 9.3kg** 3dr door cards (ea) 0.6kg * With skeleton ** All bar windscreen Various sources including vw_singh, Peter Jones, myself. Mk2 Golf etc Related topic - brackets weight: Mk1 seat rails removal - here
How about VW v's pattern too? I bet you can save some good weight by fitting a pattern bonnet.... I saved a chunk of weight fitting pattern wings on my beetle, and money
Golf Mk3 Panel Weights Bonnet Standard 14kgs Stripped out and lightened, no webbing 11.5kgs Fibreglass 5.5kgs Doors Standard 26kgs Stripped out and lightened with door cards and polycarbonate window 22kgs Fibreglass 7.5kgs Wings Genuine 3kgs fibreglass 2kgs Rear Hatch Stripped out and lightened no glass 8.5kgs Fibreglass 4.5kgs Bumpers Front Bumper 4.5kgs Rear bumper 4kgs Rear Bumper Iron 3.5kgs Front Lights Standard Mk3 VR6 2kgs Hella twin lights 1.5kgs each Rear Lights Standard 1.5kgs Rear Spoiler 1.5kgs Front Grill 1kgs Pattern Grill 0.5kgs
Wish it was my workshop, just at a friends where i keep my cars. This was done 3 years ago for my Mk3 race car Rebuild thread
Here we have some weight "gains" on the Mk 1's, (in French). http://www.passiongolfgti.com/Forum2010/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=42
A bare (uncut) Mk1 door weighs 12kg. Quite easily chopped a further 1.5kg out of it in 40 minutes. This weight saving stuff is getting addictive, so I may keep going!
Only a 4kg saving from stripping the doors and changing the glass to polycarbonate ? I expected more of a saving to be honest.
Someone else came up with the 26kgs for a standard door, was not weighed by myself. edit: also the standard door was weighed without door cars and electrics etc IIRC
Ah !. I thought it was a fully stock door, removed from a car and weighed, hence the 4kg seeming so little. Makes more sense now.
Was just a bare door and glass. You will save 2kgs with the polycarbonate windows and with the inner door and some butchering around the base of the door and between the hinges another 2kgs is possible.
