Weight reduction?

[southernsupra1]

I have a 91 turbo I use for drag racing. At first I went in and gutted the whole interior and put in one aluminum racing seat. Talk about light weight, but all in the wrong places. The front is heavy so any weight you can loose from there is a plus. Also, removing the a/c compressor will give you a few extra horses as well as the weight loss. The seats weigh a ton more than 20 and 30 lbs. Especially the drivers seat if you have power seat.

southernsupra

[Isphius]

Your not getting rid of much under the hood, as most is neccesray. Move the batter to the back passenger side, thats about the heaveiest thing youll get out. Your not getting the front very light due to the 600lb motor thats sitting in there.

[resurrecta]

I heard the new Corvette is using some special aluminum alloy. I was thinking about replacing some stuff into this alloy. Does anyone know about it?

[Isphius]

Theres not really anyway to bond the aluminum to the steel. Unless you glue and bolt it, but that might end up weighing more lol.

[Supra2NR]

have what happens to a vette when it gets into an accident?
why would you wanna put that material in your car

this is why i like older cars with steel
i feel a whole sH1t load safer
and i know i got a lesser chance of dying
with a steel car

[resurrecta]

True a 100%. But I've been told that the supra MKIII is even heavier than a MKII by someone who owned both. I'm not into MKII myself. But it's a pitty in that case. So I was thinking of all kinds of alternate ways. The Corvette, well, aluminum doesn't seem strong... but appearantly it's a new technology or something using a special allow made out of aluminum mostly.

[Supra2NR]

but appearantly it's a new technology or something using a special allow made out of aluminum mostly.

BULL!

no offense to you
but car companies will say anything to sell thier cars
lets face it the vette is a strugling car in the world market
its getting left behind by the cars in its class
they are doing everything they can for it to keep up
speedwise at least
they are cutting as much weigh as they can

if it was completely alloy that would be a diffrent story
its one of the strongest metal around but it not flexible
and idk what are the other downsides

but you know
ill rather have a heavy car and be alive
than have a feather then be killed by a touch

and yes the mk3's are heavier than mk2's
maybe bcuz i think mk3's were designd as a touring car
thats why it has all those deadning material inside
it offered a little bit of comfort, and somewhat sum luxury (for the the time it was made at least)

but im working on how else i can make my car lighter
the problem is, most of the weigh being taken out
is from the back of the car
and you cant take that much from the front
wont this make the car unbalanced,
will i have any problems jumping off the line
cuz there no more weigh pushing the wheels to the ground?

[Isphius]

c4, c5, and c6 corvettes are actually made from hydroformed steel space frames with fiberglass embedded plastic (called frp) body panels. They are actually very safe cars in crash tests. The only aluminum body part in them is the floor pans...which are aluminum and balsa wood lol. Before that they were just full steel frames with totally fiberglass panels, and they were still tough cars

[burton51m]

i am sure the corvette would not be on the street if it wasnt safe

[marc]

lol is tha tguy serious? "the vette cant keep up with cars in its class? R U NUTS? the corvette beats out cars above its class. just as fats and nice as cars triple its price. lol the corvetter costs wat 80k maybe? and a viper more than that. but a 06 vette has OVER 500 hp and 500ft/lb. a viper cant touch that. and if u want to spend over 200k for a ferrari or a lambo and get slightly faster. and i mean slighty. and that wuld be the only upside. if u look at it, a corevette is a consumer buy. fast, cheap, handles and drives just as good as a car duble its price would. kthnx


marc