Tired Of Hearing About The Weight.

[Duncan]

hahah not for you mate but we have done everything we can to take weight out of it, our budget doesnt stretch to carbon fibre so its running a fair bit of ally instead. I think you said you were building the 34 to sports sedan regs as well? so you know we have to retain factory floor pan.

[Duncan]

BTW did you ever get the 32 weighed?

[giant]

yes best we could do was 1380, depending on fuel load, ( i needed to spend more money!) and that was enough

car came back from japan yesterday! ( thank god, fair bit of stress waiting for it)

cheers russ

need to send those bloody videos to you too

[gts-4 dreamer]

this isnt going to be popular but even the 32+ R's feel heavy to me around a corner... and yes once those tyres get really warm they do slide a bit easier.... the r's do seem to do it a bit quicker ... admitedly shithouse "sport" tyres ala kuhmo's dirty quantity evaluation.... but a benchmark none the less

[Sydneykid]

spot on roy. the group A cars were heavier than my production race car (1530kg) so thats no excuse. And its also not true that gtrs get slower every lap, plenty of race times on natsoft.com.au including my races show otherwise.

i would be very interested to see how much weight the vspec can strip out.... I haven't seen 32-34 standard vs vspec or n1 but I bet the difference was less than 100kg, nothing like 200-300 kg different.

we have just stripped a shell really brtually for a new sports sedan, I will post up its weight once finished, but we are hoping for about 1250 - 300 kg less than stock

Improved Production R32GTR = 1280 kgs. All you need is money

Improved Production R32GTST (with RB30DET) target = 1130 kgs. All you need is time and a little bit of money

Cheers

Gary

[Duncan]

ahh good.....I don't have money, but I do have an angle grinder.....hopefully that will be enough.

[ArBe20]

I know of a guy in tassie who removed 200kg worth of unneccecary nuts and bolts from an s14. Weight reduction is easy!

[Adriano]

I know of a guy in tassie who removed 200kg worth of unneccecary nuts and bolts from an s14. Weight reduction is easy!

Not possible, there is nowhere near 50kg of nuts and bolts in the whole car.

Edited February 7, 2008 by Adriano

[Duncan]

agreed. and you need quite a few of them. we pulled about 10kg of bolts out of a front cut but that was all.

[Beer Baron]

lol. 200kg in bolts. I could take 200kg of bolts off my GTR but then I'd just be left with a partially assembled GTR and no way of ever putting it back together. and as Adriano suggested it's pretty unlikely even if you took every bolt out of the whole thing and held the car together with chewie and cable ties that you'd have 200kg in nuts and bolts.

[Marlin]

I know of a guy in tassie who removed 200kg worth of unneccecary nuts and bolts from an s14. Weight reduction is easy!

Yep.... good chat........

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[ArBe20]

I cant prove it and no doubt its an exaduration but im pretty sure it was only bolts he removed.

Cable ties were used.

Not possible, there is nowhere near 50kg of nuts and bolts in the whole car.

I disagree, nuts and bolts weigh alot.

Edited February 8, 2008 by ArBe20

[hungry6]

I wasn going to say anything, but I've built a few cars in my time. If you took every nut bolts including the ones that is on the rods, head, crown pinion, harmonic balancer,clutch, flywheel and even wheel studs, you be lucky to get anywhere near 100kgs, and then you have to ask yourself the question would zip ties hold these "apparently" non essential bits together, as you just removed the primary method of attaching or fastening these items.

[ArBe20]

Welllll i duno, must be bs.

[giant]

must be bs! i have just stripped an r34 and there isnt 100 kg worth of bolts, mind you i wish there was , like you say it would make it easy!

[sewid]

I once zip tied a 2JZ head to my RB26 block so i could get it home. I used duct tape as well though.

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This car is heavier than a Commodore?

I will still buy one in 10 years time when they will be going for 20k...

Got to love the resale value on the Nissans

[giant]

funny that, r34 are almost 10 years old and i wish they were 20k!

r32's are twenty years old and they are 20k

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Make it 40k

[giant]

maybe oneday they will go up in value, but i dont think that will be for some time yet.