It's all piled in the middle of my garage right now. I'll try and weight it tomorrow. The compressor is pretty heavy...everything else is nominal.proman said:Yeah a new set of wheels and tires are a load of money and you'll probably benifit more from the struts for your suspension. how much weight does the removal of the AC save btw?
Your turbo is you're muffler..lol. I could probably have a small glasspack or something welded into the pipe just after the second cat where the stock resonator used to be. They are only like $15. I could add 2 if it is still too loud. That would not only lower the weight but put it almost as close to the ground and the center of the car as possible.scapamouche said:Remember the SCCA has a 95 dB limit... a naturally aspirated 4cyl is GOING to be louder than the limit....
THat said, I am running no muffler on my MSP, and it actually sounds pretty good...
I thought about running spacers with the 6" wide wheels I have now, but the extra weight of the Protege over the other cars that dominate Solo II would be better offset by a wider tire. Depending on what offset wheel I get I may still have a little room to move the wheel out...have to wait and see.proman said:I was just thinking it may be another cheap option is to get wheel spacers to give you a wider track on your current wheels. but if you don't really care for dealing with those things then forget i said anything. I'm just throwing some random ideas out.
Regarding the exhaust, I don't know if that will affect the the exhaust gas flow velocity or anything technical crap like that. might be a good idea to get some opinions from the NA guys.
that's exactly the exhaust i'm having put together for the Solo II season. a guy in my region makes 'em...almost every ST competitor runs one now.(laugh)xelderx said:Your turbo is you're muffler..lol. I could probably have a small glasspack or something welded into the pipe just after the second cat where the stock resonator used to be.
22lbs http://www.msprotege.com/forum/showthread.php?t=91193proman said:how much weight does the removal of the AC save btw?
Yea...but they run it on a 17 inch rim. I'm only using a 15 inch so the tire to fender clearence is much better.melicha8 said:I think a 225 would be hard to fit without cutting up the fender inside. I know 225 is what the world challenge Protege's run
I'm going with the MSP LSD mainly for monetary reasons. It's about $1000 cheaper than the Quaife for me. I did plan on finishing the welding on it. I drove the car around a little without the powersteering hooked up and I couldn't stand it. It's not so bad when you are accelerating or cruising but I do a lot of trailbraking and under heavy braking the car didn't like to turn at all. I'm not really very strong in the upperbody so for right now the powersteering stays.mazdaspeedpower said:Just wondering, why are you choosing an MSP LSD over say, a quaife? Is there weight to be saved there also, or simply a money thing? Cause I know the MSP LSD is not exaclty the most reliable/best thing to be had. If you do get the MSP LSD, make sure you weld it better than Mazda did, or else there is a chance of it cracking apart, specially if you are running her especially hard. And also, are you going to be ditching the Power steering? you should consider it, as it's a heavy booger, and it's not really essential at moving speeds, only slow stuff...which you prolly should be too worried about.Oh, and I have no clue about the rules, is there a place where I could read up on the rules of whats allowed? thank you, and good luck