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So send me your engine. Have you trolled www.importmonster.com in the yahoo auctions. Every now and then there are carbon/fiberglass bonnets . Swap your steel front guards for massa fibreglass ones (leks did this). Custom design your suspension arms out off aluminum (billet). Swap your glass for perspex. Convert to 2wd by removing front drive shaft. These should help your quest.

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So send me your engine. Have you trolled www.importmonster.com in the yahoo auctions. Every now and then there are carbon/fiberglass bonnets . Swap your steel front guards for massa ones (leks did this). Custom design your suspension arms out off aluminum (billet). Swap your glass for perspex. Convert to 2wd by removing front drive shaft. These should help your quest.

Carbon bonnet would probably be heavier than the OEM alloy version.

Same again on guards; maybe a kilo each, if that.

Suspension is already alloy. Maybe someone should do it in carbon?

Not really. It's just another way to make a car handle better. You are right that it may be a lost cause but you take 50/100kg out of any car the performance increase will be significant. Anyway, it's more about chipping away at performance from every angle possible rather than having to pump huge power numbers into them..

But all you're going to end up with is a noisier, harsher, less pleasant car to drive.

And it might accelerate a poofteenth quicker, or save a bees dick of fuel?

If weight saving was your primary concern; why on earth did you buy a Stagea?

If you do anything to your car that displeases me; I may have to kill you.

Lol, jokes. :whistling:

But seriously; don't. ;)

Not looking to run an empty shell but often there are simple ways to trim fat from cars.

I needed a wagon and I like turbo's, that's what i like about Stagea's.

If your talking race car.....

AC delete, strip all interior. Strip dash. Get rid of little interior bits, like struts, and tv tuner etc etc. Seat to fixed race seat. Get rid of the auto box, and go manual, it's got to be lighter.

But stagea does not equal race car. Just enjoy it. In modern terms it's not a heavy car.

Maybe Matt; but there are much better cars to focus this kind of attention on.

My car with a 100kg passenger, or two smaller passengers doesn't really go any better or worse, and with a bootful of holiday luggage; I'm convinced it handles better.

Maybe Matt; but there are much better cars to focus this kind of attention on.

My car with a 100kg passenger, or two smaller passengers doesn't really go any better or worse, and with a bootful of holiday luggage; I'm convinced it handles better.

You're right about that. I find when I have a boot full of groceries that cars are less skittish. Wasn't a big deal but often there are often some simple ways to loose excess kilos and everyone helps. It may be my new family wagon but doesn't mean it can't fun when the wife and baby are not coming for the ride.

Just a better battery can save a little.. http://www.tuneruniversity.com/blog/2012/03/power-to-weight-ratio/

http://www.autoobsession.com.au/category/odyssey/odyssey-lightning-odyssey/

180sx: 1150kg and three times as powerful as your car.

You Jelly?

Considering that we are talking about V35s and M35s in this section and that the stagline is a mid size sedan and far more advancenot really hey

Oh and pulsar VZR N1, SR16VE 1090kg and 147kw factory...if we are playig that game.

Considering that we are talking about V35s and M35s in this section and that the stagline is a mid size sedan and far more advancenot really hey

Oh and pulsar VZR N1, SR16VE 1090kg and 147kw factory...if we are playig that game.

But it's front wheel drive.

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If your talking race car.....

AC delete, strip all interior. Strip dash. Get rid of little interior bits, like struts, and tv tuner etc etc. Seat to fixed race seat. Get rid of the auto box, and go manual, it's got to be lighter.

But stagea does not equal race car. Just enjoy it. In modern terms it's not a heavy car.

Sound deadening in the floor pan. Mate striped 16kg of the shit out of a R32 sedan and theyre not as quiet as ours so i cant imagine how much of the crap is in ours.

Sound deadening in the floor pan. Mate striped 16kg of the shit out of a R32 sedan and theyre not as quiet as ours so i cant imagine how much of the crap is in ours.

You haven't looked under the carpet... Our floor pan isn't flat, and what is shoved in there is quite light.

You're right about that. I find when I have a boot full of groceries that cars are less skittish. Wasn't a big deal but often there are often some simple ways to loose excess kilos and everyone helps. It may be my new family wagon but doesn't mean it can't fun when the wife and baby are not coming for the ride.

Just a better battery can save a little.. http://www.tuneruniversity.com/blog/2012/03/power-to-weight-ratio/

http://www.autoobsession.com.au/category/odyssey/odyssey-lightning-odyssey/

swapping over to a energizer 9v will save some weight

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