07-06-2009, 08:17 AM
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Originally Posted by spearfish25
Many people have suggested that removing weight from the trunk and back of the car may very well be detrimental to the overall dynamics as the car is already front biased. I've never seen anything objective to support this though. Nor have I seen any numbers to support tearing out the back of your car in order to get a marginal performance gain.
If you drive on the streets, you better keep your spare or make sure your AAA membership is current (or Canadian equivalent).
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If you make no other changes to the stock car and simply remove weight from the rear but not the front, then yeah the results won't be positive. Sure your horsepower:weight ratio will improve slightly, but the car is already front-heavy, and it's the rear that needs weight over the tires to keep traction.
I've done some minor weight reduction in the front (mostly, removing the windshield washer system, the engine cover, and a bunch of little useless tubes and brakets of various kinds, and the battery relocate to the rear), and I still think with the spare/sub/carpets/etc removed in the rear, I've lost "too much" in the rear so far. You can tell by looking at the suspension, my car still sits higher in the rear (relative to the front) than it did stock. The spare and sub are pretty hefty items. I'm hoping this balances back out a bit once I finally get a box and some carpeting put over the relocated battery.
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