Help me get <3,000lbs
 

Would love to shed some of the winter fat off the car. What kind of parts could I look at removing and/or replacing with lighter weight alternatives.

My Motordyne ART + Shockwave is already much less than the stock cars and exhaust, so I think that's a good start.

Lighter rims should probably be in the list.

What else?

Have fun: http://www.the370z.com/exterior-inte...on-thread.html

Rotors.

get rid of the interior

Missed that, thanks! :)

carpet delete.
stereo delete
plastic belly pan cover delete
Spare tire / jack delete
passenger seat delete

That actually provides support for the bumper, not to mention that it protects the underside of the car and weighs almost nothing. You want to leave that on.

The easiest way ... get an FRS. Lol. Good luck with the 3,000 lb mark. U need a 2009 model 6speed base model. No sport package, no radio, no ac, one seat and all trunk bits out. No floor mats.. New rotors n all that. You're looking at removing 250lbs... you can get maybe 60 lbs off the engine with titanium exhaust n downpipes plus and silicone tubing. The rest is stripping the car itself.

I have base model with titanium exhaust art pipes and advangt wheels short air intakes I'm at 3100+
Next big thing would be replacing hatch glass with lexan that would be another -40lb

I was looking in to carbon fiber hood and hatch but could not fined any weight #'s on them.

Guess I shouldn't have added that 1lb TK shift knob after all lol

Any particular reason why you want to get down to 3k lbs? Is this going to become a dedicated track car at some point?

lose your tires...that's at least 50 lbs each right there!

I like the Lexan rear glass idea. That's a substantial savings. I'll have to look into it.

I'm sure it varies by style and manufacturer but it sounds like a CF hood only saves a couple lbs over stock a grand or more for a2 or 3 lbs isn't a very good return. The real savings would be a full dry CF hood jbateD of Fiberglas wrapped in CF but now you're into pretty big bucks.

CF benefit may be in ease of opening it up and modifying with some venting to let the hot air escape. A partial cowl induction would work wonders on this car.

If it was going to be a dedicated track car is be looking to drop more than that.

I'd like to see 400whp NA and 3k lbs. I think that would be a great place for this car to be.

Is silicone tubing actually worth it? Any Idea what to expect? Maybe 1-2lbs if it was all done?

Engine pulleys
Aluminum rad
Battery
Two piece rotors
Gramlights
Bride seats or the like
Any other major savers, like 10-20lbs +

remove the entire interior

Cannot be done as many leagues require a certain percent of the interior to remain along with the fact that if you start ripping certain dash pieces out then you now need to fab up a place to mount certain controls which are still needed.

OP, you are on the right track, start with the major items and see where it gets you, there are not many 20+ weight items to remove, it will be the little things that add up.

Genius!

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That's a word that has never been used to describe shouldvebeenabortedinjapan.

thats not a 370?

http://image.superstreetonline.com/f...Z_interior.jpg

Don't forget about front brace that thing weights a ton!
At some point this year Im going to fabricate my own brace that will clear gtr manifold.