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You can cut plenty out of the internal skin of the door, but that combined with the window winder mech will save you around 3-4kg's off the standard doors. You ideally want to remove the side impact protection bars for maximum weight saving. That's a job I've got left to do on mine.
Ok, so, this is the weights for glass removed from my 172 cup.
Front door glass: 3.5kg each.
Rear qtr glass: 3.5kg each.
Rear heated screen: 7.5kg.
Front polycarb: 2kg each.
Rear qtr polycarb: 1.5kg each.
Rear screen polycarb: 3kg.
If your interested in the de-skinned bonnet weight let...
Re: James/BigAsh 182 Race Car by TDF... It doesn't get much better than this! *Pic He
If the Clio goes tits up lap the ring/spa in the BMW mate!!! It will be near enough as fast, if not faster! Lol!!
Re: Namakubi Clio 172 Cup "track project"
It works out around 50-60% weight saving. 2 front polycarbs weigh the equivalent of one piece of front glass. I weighed everything on mine when it was removed.
I've got the weights written down at home for the glass vs polycarbs.
Re: Namakubi Clio 172 Cup "track project"
It works out around 50-60% weight saving. 2 front polycarbs weigh the equivalent of one piece of front glass. I weighed everything on mine when it was removed.
I've got the weights written down at home for the glass vs polycarbs.
I have all the weights of the glass vs polycarb windows written down at home. I'll dig them out and post them up.
I can also weigh my standard bonnet with the internal strengthening removed if your interested? I took a good few kilos out by doing that. Sure, it flaps around a bit, but it's...
It's a shame your not a bit closer to me, otherwise I'd have done your geometry mate, as I have all the kit including corner weight scales for if you really wanted to get involved! Lol!
1.5-2.0 degrees negative camber won't shred the tyres massively mate. Keep it near 1.5 degrees and the tyres...
Just watched this video Jay/Tony! Excellent bit of racecraft!
Fair play for keeping your cool after the integra incident Tony! I definitely wouldn't have! Lol
Yes I'd recommend those settings for fast road mate. You'll need all your geometry checking and adjusting if your fitting all new components as well. They do make enough of a difference to knock it out.
You can get 50kgs out from removing the standard seats!! Obviously you need bucket seats so your gonna put some weight back in but only about 10-15kgs max!
No mate it's not a stupid question! It comes down to what suspension setup your running. I run kw v2's and they have a mechanism to allow camber adjustment, some have a slotted top hole that allows the hub to be pulled out/pushed in for camber adjustment and finally there's the standard...