Be careful with carbon hoods/trunks. Most of the common ones are heavier or as heavy as stock AL body parts. Dry carbon is expensive and, while lighter than AL, might not be worth it from a cash/benefit perspective.

Just remove the heavy/nonessential stuff: soft top, AC, CC, etc. and call it a day. Or you can drill holes all over your car a la the Opera S2K from GT4. That's the ticket.

 

My best advice, time to hit the treadmill. Your best bet is to reduce the size/weight of the nut behind the wheel.

 

lol im 5'9'' @ 145 not much to lose

 

Yeah, I could probably lose a battery's worth of lbs and not really miss it. I still fit in my Sparco Evo's though.

 

LOL, I'm right there with you! 5'10" 150 lbs!

I'm actually trying to shed the extra 4-5 lbs sitting around my belt...stupid beer!

A lightweight battery and holddown, relocated to the trunk will help. (15 lb savings)
Aluminum bodied coilovers (15-20 lbs)
wilwood's dynalight brake set (sheds around 9 lbs at each corner of unsprung weight).
If you get an AEM EMS, you can ditch the air pump, (around 20 pounds or so)
Ditch the cruise control (around 10 lbs)
Do the intake and exhaust like you already plan on doing (60 lbs at the very least)
Spring for a lightweight flywheel. (6-7 lbs, depends on what brand you go with)
Spoon wheels weight around the neighborhood of 8 pounds or so, but I don't know if they fit our cars...
Take out your stereo and speakers on track day (another 15 lbs).
Axialflow's short shifter weighs less than the stock one, but barely. (say 1lb)
**edit** Spare tire, tools, hood prop, fuel rail dress up plate, and trunk panels that hide the tools and spare all together weigh 33.6 lbs. ( I said 40, so I was close).

Add the conservative side of all that, and you dumped 220 lbs before even touching the wheels. I've only taken a few of these steps myself, as I'm poor and forced to do this slowly

 

Amputate arms and legs. Replace with titanium prosthetics. Donate kidney, have appendix removed, have tonsils removed, extract wisdom teeth FTW

 

Unsprung weight and reducing rotational mass is the best way, getting lighter wheels, rotors, calipers, suspension, flywheel, clutch etc. will be much better than just stripping bits and pieces here and there.

 

Yes but removing those bits is free. Adding lighter stuff isn't.

 

Update. Installed my custom single, removed the entire interior behind the seats, the "glove box", trunk carpet, spare tire, all the plastics, jack and a few things that were easy to get to in the front were removed. I also removed the cruise control. Took my car and weighed it. With a little less than half tank of gas it brought in 2680 lbs without driver. 2820 with me in it. Dunno how good that is but the curb weight is 2840 supposedly. So I'm happy hehe. and my exhaust sounds pretty good for $150

 

[QUOTE=S|2ocK,Oct 5 2006, 02:37 PM] Took my car and weighed it.