Bitching about a 4g in a 3000GT

[95gto]

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.

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.

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.