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Originally Posted by Icecreamtruk
While talking about weight. I see everywhere that light cars have carbon doors. I hear everywhere that carbon doors are massively lighter than standard doors. The thing is, I also heard that CF hoods are way lighter than OEM hoods, but it doesnt hold for the twins because of the aluminium hood. So does anyone knows how much a carbon door usually weights and how much a OEM door weights? This might be the first thing I do when the car becomes a trailer car if the gains in weight reduction are half as impressive as people say they are.
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I just weighed my factory doors yesterday. They are heavy AF at just a few ounces under 50 lbs without regulators or glass. Shooting for around 5 lbs each with the carbon pair I'll be making. I have factory front and rear glass out, as well as the trunk and hood off. I'll throw those on the scale tomorrow and report back. The roof will be off in a couple of weeks, so I'll let you guys know on that as well.
Also of note, I stripped out all of the unnecessary brackets and other sheet metal from the inside of the chassis, and there isn't much to be gained there in weight loss. I took 8 lbs 9 oz out. Spare tire well seems pretty beefy, so maybe that will be a good chunk out once it gets chopped.
Does anyone have an accurate weight on the rear subframe?