Bitching about a 4g in a 3000GT

[familyMAN]

weighed it today, no driver, unknown fuel:

Pics of your car at that weight? It's basically gutted right? What about expensive weight loss?

...you and I both should've started with a lighter car That's a full weight DSM.

[donniekak]

Pics of your car at that weight? It's basically gutted right? What about expensive weight loss?

...you and I both should've started with a lighter car That's a full weight DSM.

My talon is about 3020 with ac, power steering, cruise control, and comfy interior..........

[anyonebutme]

Something like this:

[familyMAN]

Yep and Donnie drove across the country with AC, full interior, radio and 500whp and weighs less. Only problem I can come up with... It still looks like a talon and not a 3000

[donniekak]

Yep and Donnie drove across the country with AC, full interior, radio and 500whp and weighs less. Only problem I can come up with... It still looks like a talon and not a 3000

The door stop shape is classic.

[NOMIEZVR4]

Wow that thing is gutted. Sub 3k lbs and looking like a streetcar is not possible on a 3s it seems

[sergechronos]

Wow that thing is gutted. Sub 3k lbs and looking like a streetcar is not possible on a 3s it seems

Not sure, but I'd say likely not. Removing all the excess layers of metal from the interior of the car, doing all the usual deletes, switching to light weight seats, CF doors hood and hatch, and lexan on the front and rear windows, you MIGHT get something that could pass for a street car and weigh in the very low 3000 or MAYBE upper 2900s range (based upon weight of stock doors at around 94 pounds each fully assembled and CF or FG doors at about 15 pounds each.)

But in short, likely end up spending another 4 or 5k chasing those last couple hundred pounds.

[NOMIEZVR4]

Agreed however cf doors and such and I dont think the car can retain long term streetability..ill have to remain content with my 34XXlb curb weight goals I guess

[NOMIEZVR4]

I'm curious to know how low supras and 300zx cars can get down to with basic weight reduction mods.. that should give us a good idea of how heavy were really are relatively.

[anyonebutme]

Carbon doors mean cage with door bars, which means not streetable. Anyone who says different has never driven a caged car on the street. Lexan means not a street car and anyone who says differently never dealt with Lexan on a car before. It's enough of a pain on a race car. Not to mention both options are specifically illegal for street use anywhere in the USA.

To put in perspective what I consider streetable, I've driven the car shown above daily before, and driven it to MOD and other ~3 hour trips. I still don't call it "streetable".

3400 is a realistic goal I think, but don't be surprised to have to swiss cheese some things to actually get there. My life got a lot easier once I bought a plasma cutter, and there's a lot of weight in the subframes.