camaro-coz

Hey guyz

I own a 2000 T/A WS6 M6
Modes are , forged 347 + H/C/I + Full bolt ons + dual stages of nitrous
'300+150hp'

It's a street use car , It's My 70% daily use car so I use her alot.

I added a 4 point mild steel roll bar 'almost 70lb'

I want to know if It possible to make my car have a 500lb diet with stock suspension , If not, what is the maximum number ?

till now , I'm thinking of:

-Removing the rear seats +front and rear seat belts
-light weight front seats + harness "sparco's , carebou's etc..."
-remove both bumper supports
-remove spare+jack
-add a light weight fibre glass ws6 hood
- WHAT ELSE?
sterio/ radio , power steering , A/C will 'not' go out

waiting....

fccs

iTrader: (26)

Everything you mentioned doesn't really weigh much to begin with lol. 500 is a damn lot for a daily driver, your going to need to do alot of work and swapping things like battery for lighter ones. Not to mention the AC prob has to go.

TransAmWS.6

I agree.

Quick search brought up this list, might be halfway helpful if you're really interested in shaving some weight.

https://ls1tech.com/forums/drag-raci...y-updated.html

fccs

iTrader: (26)

Honestly I wouldn't bother unless your looking to make it a drag car more. One time I took out all seats but the driver, and switched my front wheels with light bald 16inch abs's. I didn't even change my quarter mile time lol..

Currently I have all seats in the car with my chrome firehawk wheels. No jack or spare & a light fiberglass hood. I weigh like.. 155lbs and with me in the car it weigh 3630 give or take.

Z Fury

iTrader: (1)

Fuel cell instead of gas tank (hold less liquid weight), lightweight battery, remove all sound deadening, lightweight/forged wheels. Even with all of that you're probably only half-way to your goal (at best).

I don't think you'll be able to remove more than 200-300 pounds before it is no longer a street car.

camaro-coz

Thanx all for the replies , lexan glass 'rear' hatch is a good way to reduce too.
Most races are rolling between 40-80mph and a half mile distance.

Tubba

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Not worth it unless u gut everything out....I'm just saying though

xRelapse13

iTrader: (21)

Also, if it's your daily use car it wouldn't be worth it to remove the bumper supports. You can regret that decision real quick

Blasko

iTrader: (3)

Maybe eat some subway Like Jared?
500lbs is a big number to just take out of there.
Best of Luck!

ryeguy2006a

iTrader: (27)

Also if you are going to drive the car daily, you may want to have a spare tire. I'm just saying... It might be worth the extra 30-40 pounds than paying for a tow.

Starz T/A 17

iTrader: (6)

Honestly I would be careful about how much you take out and really decide if its actually worth it. Reminds me of a few guys who I used to race with and they were so caught up in running good numbers when they went to the track every month or two that they modded it so far that they eventually sold the car because it was no longer fun to drive on the street in addition to having reliability issues. I had a car that was pretty heavily modded/striped but I realized that I have the most fun just driving on the street and although I go to the track every now and then that one 10 second run isn't worth having a nice DD to enjoy everyday. So I sold it a few years ago and got something more stockish, but at the end of the day its all in what you want out of the car.

boostit5.3

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leave it a street car.. that thing has to be quick i wouldn't bother with the 500 lbs its not a track car.

Nick V.

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HioSSilver has successfully dropped allot of weight from his car and its still a DD i believe

ldyzluvdis06

iTrader: (24)

lol.

in my race turbo grandprix i removed everything....dash, carpet, seats, ac, ducts, window motors...and it was still my DD

IT SUCKED AS A DD, BUT it was quite fast

camaro-coz

Thanx all for the replies...

You'r all right with the points you've said...

All what I want is to be at the same weight as the corvettes. street racing them are hard!

TheSilverOne

iTrader: (22)

you could replace parts with equivalent parts that weigh less, but that will get expensive quick.

fccs

iTrader: (26)

500lbs just is not going to happen as everyone said, unless your spending alot of money to replace everything with lighter versions of themselves or doing some intense stripping.

86MonteSS

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instead of removing weight, add more spray. its a forged motor. if its a wet kit, feed it with a fuel cell and C16. you'll keep pump gas in your tank, but the fuel cell will be insurance for the extra spray

Latch

iTrader: (8)

500 lbs = .5 in the 1/4

50 shot = .5 in the 1/4

Cheeks

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as you go faster, that 50 shot goes a lot slower. going from 12.0 to 11.50 is pretty common with a 50 shot. Going 10.50 to 10.0 is gonna take more