951_for_John

This may belong in the race section, but I am really only wanting info on 924/944/951 cars

I am interested in how much and what you have removed from you cars.
if anybody has any info on specific weights (A/C system for example) that would be great.

I am looking for information on how light I can make a 944 and what would still be in it!

Please list year and model, weight and what has been removed!



Thanks, John

krystar

yea it would be nice to actually have confirmed info about the original weight of cars.

I had mine weighed at truck stop tonite. 1983 944. 2600LB with 1/2 tank gas, no driver, just gutted interior, sunroof delete, momo stars wheels. I figure I can get another -100 ac, -50 one piece seats, -50 fiberglass hood. so 2500 is reacheable. and then after that, it gets to stuff that gets $$/lb saved. fiberglass fenders, hatch replacement, etc.

944obscene

I expect 951's to turn out some hefty numbers (in relation to NA's).

zoltan944

may get tricky here not too many people weight their car until after they have done some weight loss to see where they are?
I may pull mine into a truck scal this weekend tho

potent951turbo

Your not going to lose 100lbs from deleting the a/c, and I doubt the stock hood even weighs 50lbs. I'm not trying to down your post but those numbers are a little optimistic.

I pulled out everything for my a/c, and I doubt it was more then 15-25lbs at most. The only thing with any weight to it is the compressor.

DanD

2900 for my 951
Old style roll bar.
fiberglass hood
fiberglass race seats.
Gotti Wheels. Probably about the same as phone dials.
Otherwise stock (ish)

zoltan944

how much ou think the roll bar weighs?

krystar

oh ac's not that heavy? i'm thinking compressor, condensor, lines, reservoir....yea yer prob right. so 20lbs there.

i was going by gt-racing's brochure. they said the oe hood weighed 79lbs and their fiberglass replacement was 16

Epic2112

Not that I've done much weight reduction, but my car weighs 3036lbs. That's with 18 inch CCW wheels, a beefy harness bar, full tank of gas, etc. I can't remember what's been removed, but it's all been dumb crap (the big 80s cell phone set up that the car came with, big CD changer thing, yeah, nothing that really matters).

Lemming

2500 coming off track with me in it; might even have to add a bit of weight back to make sure that I don't come off light !

shiners780

1988 951 = 2496# with no fuel or driver, as shown with full cage.

Factory body panels except FG rear bumper. Factory glass except door glass removed.

Almost everything not necessary has been removed.

DanD

It's around 50#

I forgot, no seatback, sprare or tools.

I haven't posted this for a while,
Here's my weight loss spreadsheet. Feel free to give me corrected numbers.

http://members.rennlist.com/dan10101...20savings4.xls

cas951

I have a 88 turbo S. Took the car to a dump yard and weight at their scale.

Car weighed in @ 3460 lbs. 2 passengers 190 lbs ea 3/4 tank of gas.

no spare
oddesey battery

Othaer than that car is stock.

PorscheDoc

2780 with 3/4 tank of gas. All factory body panels for now. No AC, manual steering, no Cruise, gt3 seats, harness bar, most of the sound pads gone, no driver, no emissions equipment, fabspeed exhaust no cat, odyssey battery, rear seat delete, but the interior still has full carpet, trim, etc, and probably some other things I am forgetting.

Future plans are to go widebody with fiberglass front fenders (for the rear i doubt there will be a whole lot of weight difference), fiberglass hood, full header panel with headlight delete (replaced by running euro driving lights), and probably a lexan rear hatch. It started as my daily driver but is now turning into mostly a track car with less and less street driving the more I modify it. That should get it down pretty light.

krystar

DanD, great excel sheet! I modified it and added cost and $/LB. some good seats, a/c delete, rear hatch replacements, and rear bumper replacement seem to be the top choices for cheap reductions

is there really that much undercoating? 120LB's?