Weight reduction, the way to go???
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toucci said:lighter cars handle better dude! less inertia means its easier to change direction
they handle better but not when the weight isnt evenly destributed, if it turns out that he pulled more weight out of the front then rear or visa versa and one is too light that can greatly affect his handling in a bad way. he should try to get his car as close to 50/50 as possible, not just try and gut his car
IchBinEinMP5
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Where did you get these numbers: 100lbs = 0.1 sec??
If your car weighed 1000lbs less that would be approx. 1700+lbs... putting your power to weight ratio at better than the first gen. Lotus Elise! I expect that you would improve your 1/4 mile time by more than 1 second.
If you want lighter wheels, check out Weld Wheels, and their Racelite R/S... 17" forged wheel at 11lbs.
If your car weighed 1000lbs less that would be approx. 1700+lbs... putting your power to weight ratio at better than the first gen. Lotus Elise! I expect that you would improve your 1/4 mile time by more than 1 second.
If you want lighter wheels, check out Weld Wheels, and their Racelite R/S... 17" forged wheel at 11lbs.
IchBinEinMP5 said:
Actually to tell the truth, my friend's dad gave me those numbers. He drives a GNX, and he says those are the weight reduction gains for his car. I think someone already gave me a link somewhere in this discussion that gives better ratio's than what I gave in my original post.
IchBinEinMP5
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Turning a bigger wheel is only a problem if the wheel weighs more...
That was a funny article. If you wanna go faster at the track don't go with 17's, thats more wheel to turn. When I mentioned removing the spare it was for when you go to the track. Also the VIS cf hood on my civic weighs 9lbs and the factory is like 19lbs. The big differance with this hood is not just the weight but that it has vents in the hood to pull heat out of the engine. This is what you really bennifit from when putting a cf hood on your car. The air flows through the front of the car, across the motor and out through the large vents in the hood. This also pushes the car down as it moves while decreasing the heat of the engine. Heat is a large robber of hp. There are no large power gains your gonna get from any one mod. Thats why these cars get the nickname tuners. You can't just bolt one mod on and go thats 10 hp and that ones 15 so I just gained 25. It doesn't work like that. You may only gain 20 or 18. So what I'm saying is you have to do a lotta little mod gains to equal any real big power gain. and sometimes tune the car to reach its max potential gain.
323CiP5 said:Anyone remember a Sport Compact Car magazine issue where they did some "weight reduction" to a nissan? well you could do something like that.
they removed everything, seats, hood, doors, trunk....pretty much stripped the car. There's your weight reduction for ya
actually a friend of mine just picked up an old school nissan se-r and stripped it. he was actually posting really good numbers at the track or so I heard. Anyway, one time he left if in the drive way instead of the garage, and in the morning there was a pool where the spare tire is supposed to be. The problems created tho funny when told as a story, aren't really all that funny if it were your daily driver, which it wasn't, but its entertaining.
