Light Weight Mods?

[Lak]

Hey guys,

Was wondering if anyone has attempted to reduce their car's weight by replacing heavier engine parts, removing back seats or carbon fibre exterior panels etc? I'm not sure if this has been asked or tried before, I did do a quick search hehe. I think it would be a great idea to have some light weight replacements for us N/A guys, which won't be overly expensive and might help us get closer to our T and V8 brothers.

[senna_T]

Unfortunately most of the weight in the falcon is in the chassis and safety equipment. The engine is iron and the driveline is fairly heavy too. Although there are some gains to be had by using lightweight exotic material in body panels and the such, it would be enough to justify the cost in a street car. Plus a 4 door sedan looks a bit silly with its rear seat out!

[Dagabond]

Nothing a dremel and an oxy wouldnt fix....

[f6rspec]

I didnt get in the car so that made it 100kg lighter

[Ralph Wiggum]

Fill you tires with nitrogen, run around under a 1/4 of tanks (theres 30kgs right there!) drain you washer bottle. empty your ash tray. Drive around naked. Don't eat for a week before you going driving,remove 1 wheel nut from each wheel,drain you cooling system and refill with plain water not glycol (hey glycol is heavy).

They have heaps of go fast parts for NA 6's on this site. They not sponsors but we allow them anyway as there stuff is so good:

http://kalecoauto.com/index.php?main_page=...03beb498f51f984

[Mike XR6T]

I have some of the tyre beeds, real good quality stuff!

and ive ordered the engine oil bypass kit to, I recon I will pik up at least 5kw with the oil pump not loading the engine up :crybaby:

[SCRIBR]

I'm sure the mods won't mind you posting up kaleco auto parts stuff.. it's top notice stuff!

[Lak]

Hey guys, thx for the informative replies and not raging at the newbie <==. I guess this area is a no go then. Back to the drawing board!

[typhoon_freak]

I took my rear spoiler off.. cud be good for 10kg

[Erko]

unsprung weight is what you want to reduce first....get some forged 18's (or even good Japanese cast wheels) and you will be looking at 5-8kg weight saving PER WHEEL over the Ford things. Unsprung saving is said to have a 4-1 effect compared to sprung weight. You will notice the difference in ride, grip, braking etc.

Next area you can save serious weight is in the seats....I'd suggest AT LEAST 10kgs per seat can be saved with some Recaros or Bride.

There is a CF bonnet available, that's got to be good for 5-10kgs.

that's about all you'd bother with for a streeter, but I'd suggest dropping 50-70kgs is pretty easy and with no ill effect for daily use.