My 6 foot tall 22 year old son now refuses to sit in the back of my C2....Can't believe it's taken this long for him to realise that back-seat travel in a 997 is for toddlers only!
And I always have the rear seats folded flat anyway so decided today to take them out on the basis they are now just dead weight.
A five minute job and they were out. I'm keeping the belts in place for now and am still deciding whether to go for the rear-seat-delete kit in the future. Out of interest I weighed the seats, bolts etc and they weigh ..... 9.3kg. I then recalled an article on the 991.2 T - a purist's 911 with manual box and weight reduction... of 20kg ... from rear seat delete and thinner glass.
So my 997 C2 has achieved 50% of this with no real effort at all.
If someone can show me how to shave 9.3kg in five minutes off the fat 51 year old driver please let me know....
Also, worth noting - last year I took off the yellowing rear wheel arch protectors. 5 minutes with a hair dryer easy peasy, don't believe the scare stories on here. Must be worth at least 5 grams? I then had eibach lowering springs and spacers fitted by RPM Technik. In spite of the wheels being lower and wider - I can report no chips or marks to the front edge of the rear lower wings ... and the car's lines look so much cleaner. So I'm really not sure these are needed....
Also visited OPC Silverstone (Towcester) today. They are going through a major refurb but some lovely cars there - aforementioned 991.2 Carrera T, 992, 991 GT3 RS in lava, various GT3's and a lovely GT3 Touring... with very dodgy decal detail on the left rear wing if you look closely....
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And I always have the rear seats folded flat anyway so decided today to take them out on the basis they are now just dead weight.
A five minute job and they were out. I'm keeping the belts in place for now and am still deciding whether to go for the rear-seat-delete kit in the future. Out of interest I weighed the seats, bolts etc and they weigh ..... 9.3kg. I then recalled an article on the 991.2 T - a purist's 911 with manual box and weight reduction... of 20kg ... from rear seat delete and thinner glass.
So my 997 C2 has achieved 50% of this with no real effort at all.
If someone can show me how to shave 9.3kg in five minutes off the fat 51 year old driver please let me know....
Also, worth noting - last year I took off the yellowing rear wheel arch protectors. 5 minutes with a hair dryer easy peasy, don't believe the scare stories on here. Must be worth at least 5 grams? I then had eibach lowering springs and spacers fitted by RPM Technik. In spite of the wheels being lower and wider - I can report no chips or marks to the front edge of the rear lower wings ... and the car's lines look so much cleaner. So I'm really not sure these are needed....
Also visited OPC Silverstone (Towcester) today. They are going through a major refurb but some lovely cars there - aforementioned 991.2 Carrera T, 992, 991 GT3 RS in lava, various GT3's and a lovely GT3 Touring... with very dodgy decal detail on the left rear wing if you look closely....
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