Decent weight reducing body parts?

kenchan

so how much weight has your car lost so far? 200lbs? 300lbs?

if so you went from a 0-60 time of say 5.4 to 5.1sec. hardly worth the effort on a street car imho.

if you're going to do it, do it like you mean it by making a track car. take out ALL the interior panels out and rest of your stereo, a/c everything.

wstar

Well, what's "worth the effort" is highly subjective. It's hard to be on these boards and not sound hypocritical saying that to anyone. Most regular humans would say it's not "worth the effort" to replace exhaust or intake systems for the gains they give either. That ship has long sailed, we're obviously all over-optimizing here.

0-60 isn't the whole game either, not by far. Dropping weight off the car also benefits handling, and redistributing the center of gravity towards the bottom and back can give pretty significant positive handling changes for fairly small moves. Hence the focus on the front body panels, rather than say the rear bumper or even the trunk lid so much. The battery move alone can be felt in the handling of the car, IMHO.

I'd love to build a track-specific car, more like TravisJB's build, but it's not in the cards right now. I don't have another car lined up as a replacement daily driver, and quite frankly with as few weekends as I could devote to the track right now it wouldn't really be worth it. I plan to keep this car pretty much indefinitely though, and someday it will get there

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