Bitching about a 4g in a 3000GT

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Originally Posted by donniekak

My last stealth was about 3350, with ac, and a dohc Tt v6. It's not hard to get to that weight, it's getting under 3000 that gets hard. For starters, gutting the hatch, non power cloth interior, no crash bars, and ditching unneeded brackets cuts a lot.

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Originally Posted by anyonebutme

Point was my car is a tin can and weighs over 3300 on my race scales ready to go. Yes you can hit 3200-3300 and keep A/C and heater core and blower motor and radio and carpet, ect, but easy it is not.

And to think all my work will be for naught once the cage goes in, lmao.

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I don't think that target is as easy to hit as what is being suggested. I could see the smaller engine helping things but I don't think a 3300lb car is a simple task if it is to retain things like an interior, ac, etc. I'm not saying you couldn't do it, I just don't think it is a simple thing.

My car has the bulk of what was on that list and still weighs around 3575 lbs without me or any fuel, right around 3900lbs with me and full tank of fuel. Now I am a full interior car with AC and even an upgraded stereo, so there are some key areas to shed weight however there is still 275lbs you would need to shed to hit the 3300lb target. If your figures include a full tank of fuel you would have another 110lbs to lose on top of the 275.

And since Jason was curious, here are the axle weights for my car for a frame of reference (weights include me and 1/2 tank of fuel ):
Front = 2177 (57%)
Rear = 1675 (43%)

If I add in the missing the fuel the numbers get a hair better at 56/44. Luckily my cross weights are much nicer at 51/49.

Now just for grins, if you pull an extra 200lbs off the rear, which as noted before would be where the potential additional reductions would come from, your new numbers would look something like this:
Front = 2177 (60%)
Rear = 1475 (40%)

I would give serious thought to relocating as much weight off the front to the back as possible.

You are forgetting I had a 3350lb car with ac and interior. Maybe it was easier because it was a first gen stealth?

1st gens were heavier right?

95gto what have you done for weight reduction?

I'm at 3660 with stock wheels, stock DS, stock seats and full interior/AC/PS/Sound Deadning/Crash Bars and 1/4 tank gas

Should I just remerge the threads now that the bitching is over?

I think it was just big mike.... :p

NO, I like the split threads

this is like, the off topic off topic sandbox thread.

just because the waters are calm now doesn't mean that they'll stay

95gto has a carbon hood, carbon drivers seat, possibly a driveshaft, unsure what else.

More importantly, what is everyone using to measure their cars? My car and 95gto was scaled on my race corner scales, and my car was also scaled on a certified cat scale. Because I'm wondering what I haven't done yet to somehow have a heavier car than Donnie even though my car has literally nothing in it. I mean the 6-speed running gear isn't THAT heavier than 5-speed, and the front end is swiss cheesed. I don't even have a gauge cluster. I'm to the point of stripping wiring and cutting holes in stuff.

I'm gonna use 4 bathroom scales to weigh mine.