Weight savings ideas for 992?
01-19-2023, 01:24 PM
#1
Weight savings ideas for 992?
Since the bucket seat option is no longer available on carrera models and pccb are too expensive to replace since my car will be tracked every week, where else can I save weight ? Looking to drop 100 lbs on this car.
note: don’t tell me to go on a diet, I’m 180 lbs. weight savings are for the race track not the 1/4 mile (don’t tell me get an ecu tune). Can’t get the manual because it’s a daily driver for me and I want the performance.
note: don’t tell me to go on a diet, I’m 180 lbs. weight savings are for the race track not the 1/4 mile (don’t tell me get an ecu tune). Can’t get the manual because it’s a daily driver for me and I want the performance.
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01-19-2023, 03:44 PM
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.......Since my car will be tracked every week......
Seriously? I have never met anyone who tracked their car every week. Do you live in some dedicated home community where there is a race track actually in with the homes like the one next to the BMW Performance complex in Thermal, California?
https://www.desertsun.com/story/mone...own/432851002/
If you ARE going to the track weekly, you should be buying a dedicated track car, not trying to get 100 lb out of a 992 while at the same time saying consumables are too expensive. Sorry, you come across as a person who has very limited real world track experience but perhaps a lot of dreams. Us Old Timers who have been doing track days since the 90's know the folly of using an expensive street car on a race track on a regular basis. What you are proposing is silly because you will wind up with a lousy track car and a crappy street car trying to do both with one vehicle.. 100lb is not going to make a bit of difference in your lap times. I have seen - more than once - professional factory race drivers like Bill Aubrlen and Hans Stuck put three other large men in four door M-cars (an extra 600 lb or more) and absolutely smoke everyone else on the track driving solo in the same model cars during demo days. That extra weight didn't matter.
You have much to learn, grasshoppa.
Seriously? I have never met anyone who tracked their car every week. Do you live in some dedicated home community where there is a race track actually in with the homes like the one next to the BMW Performance complex in Thermal, California?
https://www.desertsun.com/story/mone...own/432851002/
If you ARE going to the track weekly, you should be buying a dedicated track car, not trying to get 100 lb out of a 992 while at the same time saying consumables are too expensive. Sorry, you come across as a person who has very limited real world track experience but perhaps a lot of dreams. Us Old Timers who have been doing track days since the 90's know the folly of using an expensive street car on a race track on a regular basis. What you are proposing is silly because you will wind up with a lousy track car and a crappy street car trying to do both with one vehicle.. 100lb is not going to make a bit of difference in your lap times. I have seen - more than once - professional factory race drivers like Bill Aubrlen and Hans Stuck put three other large men in four door M-cars (an extra 600 lb or more) and absolutely smoke everyone else on the track driving solo in the same model cars during demo days. That extra weight didn't matter.
You have much to learn, grasshoppa.
01-19-2023, 01:29 PM
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carbon fiber roof, carbon fiber wheels
01-19-2023, 01:56 PM
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Recaro Pole Position (or something like it) would make up a big chunk of that weight.
HRE R101LW would drop maybe 10 lb a corner
Ti or Inconel exhaust probably about 20 lbs
HRE R101LW would drop maybe 10 lb a corner
Ti or Inconel exhaust probably about 20 lbs
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01-19-2023, 02:18 PM
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Get in shape and lose a few lbs 
(I am doing this)
(I am doing this)
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01-19-2023, 02:22 PM
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01-19-2023, 03:11 PM
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This could serve two purposes: (1) saving weight and (2) reducing rattles on door panels.
Remove the door panels? 😎 I’m tempted.
Remove the door panels? 😎 I’m tempted.
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01-19-2023, 03:32 PM
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If you have not yet purchased, buy a Carrera T. If you have already purchased, trade in for a Carrera T. And read the Carrera T thread started by @reloader-1 and you’ll get all all the pointers you need there.
01-19-2023, 03:44 PM
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.......Since my car will be tracked every week......
Seriously? I have never met anyone who tracked their car every week. Do you live in some dedicated home community where there is a race track actually in with the homes like the one next to the BMW Performance complex in Thermal, California?
https://www.desertsun.com/story/mone...own/432851002/
If you ARE going to the track weekly, you should be buying a dedicated track car, not trying to get 100 lb out of a 992 while at the same time saying consumables are too expensive. Sorry, you come across as a person who has very limited real world track experience but perhaps a lot of dreams. Us Old Timers who have been doing track days since the 90's know the folly of using an expensive street car on a race track on a regular basis. What you are proposing is silly because you will wind up with a lousy track car and a crappy street car trying to do both with one vehicle.. 100lb is not going to make a bit of difference in your lap times. I have seen - more than once - professional factory race drivers like Bill Aubrlen and Hans Stuck put three other large men in four door M-cars (an extra 600 lb or more) and absolutely smoke everyone else on the track driving solo in the same model cars during demo days. That extra weight didn't matter.
You have much to learn, grasshoppa.
Seriously? I have never met anyone who tracked their car every week. Do you live in some dedicated home community where there is a race track actually in with the homes like the one next to the BMW Performance complex in Thermal, California?
https://www.desertsun.com/story/mone...own/432851002/
If you ARE going to the track weekly, you should be buying a dedicated track car, not trying to get 100 lb out of a 992 while at the same time saying consumables are too expensive. Sorry, you come across as a person who has very limited real world track experience but perhaps a lot of dreams. Us Old Timers who have been doing track days since the 90's know the folly of using an expensive street car on a race track on a regular basis. What you are proposing is silly because you will wind up with a lousy track car and a crappy street car trying to do both with one vehicle.. 100lb is not going to make a bit of difference in your lap times. I have seen - more than once - professional factory race drivers like Bill Aubrlen and Hans Stuck put three other large men in four door M-cars (an extra 600 lb or more) and absolutely smoke everyone else on the track driving solo in the same model cars during demo days. That extra weight didn't matter.
You have much to learn, grasshoppa.
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01-19-2023, 03:47 PM
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^^ Huge +1. This is either a pointless thought exercise, or an exercise in futility.
Forgive me for not wanting to scroll through a couple thousand posts in the T thread, but what does a T actually have that makes it more lightweight? My understanding was everything that is lighter about the T is available as an option on at least some other models (LiFePo battery, buckets / rear seat delete, lightweight glass etc). Is that incorrect?
If you have not yet purchased, buy a Carrera T. If you have already purchased, trade in for a Carrera T. And read the Carrera T thread started by @reloader-1 and you’ll get all all the pointers you need there.
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01-19-2023, 03:49 PM
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Since the bucket seat option is no longer available on carrera models and pccb are too expensive to replace since my car will be tracked every week, where else can I save weight ? Looking to drop 100 lbs on this car.
note: don’t tell me to go on a diet, I’m 180 lbs. weight savings are for the race track not the 1/4 mile (don’t tell me get an ecu tune). Can’t get the manual because it’s a daily driver for me and I want the performance.
note: don’t tell me to go on a diet, I’m 180 lbs. weight savings are for the race track not the 1/4 mile (don’t tell me get an ecu tune). Can’t get the manual because it’s a daily driver for me and I want the performance.
01-19-2023, 03:51 PM
#15
On the TTS a full inconel exhaust equals to -70 pounds of weight savings.
Lighter battery can save you another 30-40 pounds.