NZ951

Whats a K28 feel like?

Dave951M

Aluminum torque tube will lose another 25# but it's a real job to put in.

pk951

http://members.rennlist.org/dan10101/car_math.ht

try this it might help.

M758

Well,
You can start here...



This my 944 NA spec car and is about 2400 lbs (lost about 400) with the cage in place. Still has stock glass and steel body work. I could go with Lexan and fiberglass to further save weight, but this not legal in my class and I already added 50lbs back in to make weight.

Matt H

They sure look lonely like that, dont they?
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Luke

Hey everybody, LOOK, it's a 'how-to' for installing rear speakers hehe

smkn951

that's exactly what my car looked like before i installed the 4 12'' speakers in the rear and 2 1000 watt amps, ac/dc converter( for the ps2), 2 one farad capacitors and the extra blue top optima battery.
it looks bare dont it?)

billgot

Once it gets on boost it feels mighty fine.I run conservative boost about 15psi.

billgot

Thanks for all the info guys.I have been looking at a Car Fib hood for some time now.I will look into Race seats and the lexan rear window.I guess I will have to get serious if I want to lose over 200#.Thanks again all.

Silverbullet951

How much weight could you lose if you got rid of the seats in the rear, installed carbon fiber fenders, hood, and nose panel, rear bumper, got rid of the AC, and got lightweight driver and passenger seats, and lexan windows?

87Porsche951

AC, Air Bags, Insulation, Spare Tire, winshield washer tank.

Russ Murphy

silverbullet,
Look at the link that pk951 posted. Your answer lies within.

Russ Murphy

Not even close you moron. For God's sake, look at M758's post. Sorry just trying to emulate the guys from the DSM board. Maybe I should type some sorry laugh emulation while I'm at it. Not.

TonyG

M758

I'm not an expert or even very versed in weight reduction how-to in these cars... so correct me if I'm wrong (which I'm someone here will do :-)


But you're starting out with an earlier car which weighed a lot less to begin with.

I have a 88 951, and I've replaced the carpet, door panels, dash, center console, and more (replacing the dash and steering wheels with a non airbag dash and non airbag steering wheel).

And although I've saved some weight, it's been no where near even 100lbs.

The carpet, and back seats together can't weigh more than 35lbs max.

The difference in the dash/steering wheel - non airbag combo vs airbag combo can't weight more than a 25lbs difference.

Door panels weight almost nothing as does the center consol. Figure a max of 5lbs here.

Even deleting the dash entirely would probably drop only 25-35lbs.

The drivers seat is 4 way electric. The passengers is full manual. The passengers didn't fell much heavier than the sparcos I had sitting in my garage at the time.

Again... these are guesstimates as I never took a scale and weighed anything.... but I can't see anywhere close to 150lbs - 175lbs by deleting the entire interior off of my 1988 951 based on all the stuff I pulled out.

Which brings me to my original point... are you not sure that your low weight is a result of the fact that you have an early car?

Did you weight all the stuff you removed to account for the weight?

Thanks,

Dan Gallagher

I have an early car a little more stripped than this, it has no dash at all, hollow doors, no windows, lexan quarter windows, stock body work other than an aftermarket 951 look nose... we got it to 2300lbs with a roll bar and one seat.