For the last two weeks I've been running around in my ST with no rear seats/interior. This made a noticeable difference to how the car performed (obviously), so I'm thinking of making the car a little more weight friendly.

Think daily car but minimalistic, i.e carpets, lightweight front seats, etc. Now I'm also conscious of problems when people take all the weight out of the rear of the cat especially being that it's fwd, so i want to maintain a better weight distribution, hence my question. Before i find some lighter front seats, does anyone know the weight of the seats i have, being the 1/2 leather option.

Any additional information would be appreciated, thank you.

 

Take one out and use a set of house scales to find out the weight.

 

I will give it a wizz Saturday, could be shocking ��

 

off memory from a few yrs back i think passenger seat is around 19-20kg and drivers is a few kg more.

 

Cheers Steve, ouch that's a lot.

 

would not be surprised if its even more and rear upper seats are pretty damn heavy too

 

The ST150 ones in mine look similar, and the passenger seat (also half leather) weighs 18 kg

I also noticed a big difference in performance after taking the rear seats out, but made the exhaust too loud for the daily run so I only do it for track days.

I made a spreadsheet with all the weight components from the rear seats, space saver, jack etc I'll check but I think it added up to 40kg overall.

 

Cheers all, I like the idea of a spreadsheet