[Daytona]

True. I guess I misunderstood your intention. When I normally refer to "removing as much weight as possible" I am usually meaning to drive the car factory-clean - meaning leave in seats, jacks, etc. and remove all superfluous jackets, CD's, books, etc.

If you do decide to remove everything else (or as much else as you can), remember that typically 100 lbs. = 0.1 seconds. Remove 175 lbs from the car and it should reduce your ETs by 0.175 seconds. I emphasis 'should' because where in the car you reduce weight makes a big difference. In our FWD cars you'd want to keep as much weight over the front tires by removing center & rear weight. Removing front weight certainly does help but if you remove too much from the front relative to the rest of the car's weight reductions you could make it harder for the tires to grip at launch. Don't know a good formula for you to determine how much is too much in the front. You'll need to figure that one out by trial and error.

One area most people forget is the gas tank. For FWD cars you'd want 1/4 tank or less in there for 2 reasons:
1) More gas = more weight, more gas weight = the greater the rear weight bias in the car (vs. the front). Plus when the gas swooshes in the tank under acceleration it pushes to the back, fourther accentuating the bias off the front tires as they try to grip.
2) it's lighter