Okay... I'm on a mission to get every last ounce of weight out of my '86 Jetta. I very may likely get a weight reduction in my car's class for next year. Currently we have to weigh in at 2250 with driver. I need to find 100lbs!!! The car currently weighs about 2050lb.

I'm starting with the removal of all the sound deadening and rust proofing. Other than a rigid scraper, a whole lot of hard work and skinned knuckles - is there any good way to get the underbody coating off? The rear trunk area sound deadening is coming off pretty easy. I'm just afraid that I'm going to be spending months taking off the underbody coating this winter! But at least the first race isn't until the end of April - I've got time on my side, as I've already started!