Nice Cavalier.

 

This reminds me of a thread I saw back in the integra forums, this guy was saying that cf hoods actually hurt performance, since they take weight of the front wheels... and reduce traction...

 

come on we've all had our stupid questions, he had his questioned answered, now let this thread die or be locked

 

to answer your question more throughly.

If you swap trunks it will reduce the weight on the rear tires by a small amount. When combined with removal of the spare and tools, and lightweight trunk you'd have a good bit of weight off the rear.

Obviously that would directly affect the F/R balance of the s2000, which is 49/51 and probably shift it to 51/49 or make it 50/50. Either way it IS affecting the handling performance of the car, but likely not enough to make your ap1 any more tail happy than it already is. If anything you could easily off set the weight balance with a nicer wider set of wheels/tires for more grip.

 

Remember we're talking about no more than 10lbs here. A tank of gas, full to empty, is 10 times the weight change. And this is what makes the question a *little* silly. And that savings would require a huge dollar investment in the most expensive CF. There are ways to save weight in the S2000. Replacing Aluminum pannels with CF pannels isn't worth the effort.

Real savings are in Spare Tire, Light Exhaust (starting with the exhaust manifold) and maybe ultralight rims. Lightening an S2000 while keeping Daily Driver status is very difficult. For real savings, you'd have to start track stripping.

 

get on 06 and up and u wont worry about sliding with that vsa on

 

 

thanks answering and not be a douche like some of the others.. this post is starting to look like something off honda tech..

The spare tire and tools were gone from the car when i bought it. im running 225/40/18 in front and 245/40/18 in rear

like i said, i didnt know how much the s2k trunk weighs. it could weigh 20 lbs and a cheap carbon trunk weigh 12..its hard to tell how heavy a trunk is while its still on the car. the one on my cavalier was slightly under 50 lbs. so dropping to a cheap carbon trunk still dropped almost 40lbs.


im laughing at the people bagging on it. i think its funny since it would stop most of their cars in a strait line. but to each is own i guess. defiantely isnt the 1st time iv had people act like douche bags because its something different.

 

Not to be a "douche bag" but, I could care less if your cavalier could spank my s2000 in a straight line, or stomp my old del sol either. That's not the most important thing to many people on here.

If we wanted badass easy to do drag cars, we'd be a supra forum, most people here enjoy turning a lot more, and thats where the s2000 shines, I'm pretty certain it'd stop the ever living crap out of your cavalier, I'd put good money my old del sol would as well in the twisties.

Just saying that the people here for the most part have a different outlook on what's important than you might be used to, or not, I know nothing about you. Often most of us don't really respect the cavalier as a tuner car, you repeatedly defending it will be pretty useless and makes you look a bit like an e-thug (not that some of the other people didn't come off like that as well).

But that's not really why we're here. The trunk on the s2000 is quite light from the factory (as is the hood) and cheap CF parts to replace either of those parts can sometimes add weight instead of saving it.

Nice upgrade in cars though.