The OCD level is high.

"Twingo Tamer - About to descend into project car hell." (oppisitelock)
11/02/2015 at 07:35 • Filed to: None

Have to drive 35 miles a day for my minimum wage job so every bit of fuel saved is pretty helpful. So I went all racecar and pulled out my back seats, rubber mats, all the junk out of the boot etc. I was even obsessive enough to weigh it all, pulled almost 45kgs out of the thing.

DISCUSSION (29)

Leon711 > Twingo Tamer - About to descend into project car hell.
11/02/2015 at 07:44

Tape over the panel gaps?

LongbowMkII > Twingo Tamer - About to descend into project car hell.
11/02/2015 at 07:46

YESSS stripped out twingo! Building F-class cars for forza has made me want a stripped out subcompact in the worst way.

XJDano > Twingo Tamer - About to descend into project car hell.
11/02/2015 at 07:46

Do you actually use the passenger seat?

Twingo Tamer - About to descend into project car hell. > Leon711
11/02/2015 at 07:46

I don’t think I'm quite there yet haha. Might take out the passenger seat though.

Twingo Tamer - About to descend into project car hell. > LongbowMkII
11/02/2015 at 07:51

Haha I wonder if it'd actually make a noticable change in handling, it's only about 5% of the cars weight so most likely not.

Twingo Tamer - About to descend into project car hell. > XJDano
11/02/2015 at 07:51

Not often but I'm keeping it for now.

RWS Motorsport > Twingo Tamer - About to descend into project car hell.
11/02/2015 at 08:02

Swap spare wheel for Moose (mouse? moouse? spelling is not my strong point)

should save you another handful of Kilos

Blze001 > Twingo Tamer - About to descend into project car hell.
11/02/2015 at 08:03

You’re not fooling anyone OP, when do the cage and racing seats arrive?

Twingo Tamer - About to descend into project car hell. > RWS Motorsport
11/02/2015 at 08:03

Don't think I can bring myself to do that to be honest, I like having a spare.

Twingo Tamer - About to descend into project car hell. > Blze001
11/02/2015 at 08:04

When they start paying me more haha.

Leon711 > Twingo Tamer - About to descend into project car hell.
11/02/2015 at 08:21

Take a dump?

I recently got 43.3mpg put of the gti on a run. With no racecar weight loss, which for the power ain’t bad.

Cé hé sin > Twingo Tamer - About to descend into project car hell.
11/02/2015 at 08:43

Fold the passenger mirror back.

Take out the carpets.

Rear wiper? That can go too.

PS9 > Twingo Tamer - About to descend into project car hell.
11/02/2015 at 08:50

Black Eyed Peas: Wha’chu gon do wit all dat junk? All dat junk inside yo trunk?
Car Guy Twingo Tamer: Take it out.
Black Eyed Peas: Oh. Well, then. That...that’s nice. ...Your out of the band. That doesn’t work. Sorry.

crowmolly > Twingo Tamer - About to descend into project car hell.
11/02/2015 at 09:07

Keeping up on your tire inflation I presume?

yitznewton > Twingo Tamer - About to descend into project car hell.
11/02/2015 at 09:22

Ooh, hypermiling. You might pick up a mL/km or two by inflating the tires over spec, within the max rating of the tires, at the expense of ride and possibly handling.

Master Cylinder > Twingo Tamer - About to descend into project car hell.
11/02/2015 at 09:27

I didn’t really start noticing an effect in my car until I removed about 150lb from it. My end goal is to take out at least 200lb, ideally more like 250lb.

RazoE > Twingo Tamer - About to descend into project car hell.
11/02/2015 at 09:44

Get some dryer ducting and affix it to the end of your stock airbox’s “snorkel” to draw in cold air from the outside.

Shiyal > Leon711
11/02/2015 at 09:48

Try it and see what mpg changes.

66671 - 200 [METRIC] my dash > Twingo Tamer - About to descend into project car hell.
11/02/2015 at 10:08

Did you get a twingo plushie?

Twingo Tamer - About to descend into project car hell. > RazoE
11/02/2015 at 16:40

It already draws air through piping from the lower front grille, so it gets cold air anyways.

Twingo Tamer - About to descend into project car hell. > 66671 - 200 [METRIC] my dash
11/02/2015 at 16:40

I didn’t I kinda wanted one but I never tried to get one.

Twingo Tamer - About to descend into project car hell. > Leon711
11/02/2015 at 16:42

My coffee intake means that I have always taken a dump in the last hour haha. That’s really good, I struggle to get that because the tiny power means it needs revs to get up hills and such, hurts the mpg.

Twingo Tamer - About to descend into project car hell. > yitznewton
11/02/2015 at 16:42

I have them spot on manufacturers specs, don’t want any wear issues from pushing it much higher.

Twingo Tamer - About to descend into project car hell. > crowmolly
11/02/2015 at 16:43

Indeed, I check them pretty often, especially with it getting cold now,

Twingo Tamer - About to descend into project car hell. > PS9
11/02/2015 at 16:44

Kinja'd!!!

Twingo Tamer - About to descend into project car hell. > Cé hé sin
11/02/2015 at 16:45

The mirror gets used quite a bit so probably wont do that, carpets are mostly gone other than forward of the front seats, I use the wiper too much to get rid.

Leon711 > Twingo Tamer - About to descend into project car hell.
11/02/2015 at 17:18

I’m keen to point out that for most the journey I was doing 60, on a normal run its about 40mpg . In my usual 7 miles each way commute in traffic 22-31 mpg

Twingo Tamer - About to descend into project car hell. > Leon711
11/02/2015 at 18:13

Still not bad considering the car.

Leon711 > Twingo Tamer - About to descend into project car hell.
11/02/2015 at 19:15

Cruise control is a godsend.