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I don't necessarily have to lose weight on the intake if it is effective. If im going to change my intake I want something ram air like the Gruppe M Revolution intake the shoots straight forward from the throttle body. just don't want to spend that kind of money right now. I have a vararam on my corvette and when you get going that thing works! For the 86 it would be nice to pull in some air from the fog light holes
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01-05-2020, 03:28 AM | #198 | |
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sneak preview of something ive been working on. A stout but lightweight battery cage to mount my Shorai in the trunk
I used thicker aluminum even though a step down thinner aluminum would have worked. Still came out to only a hair over a pound! With the Shorai |
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Got the battery installed in the trunk. Put it right in the center as that was the easiest to mount and drill holes ect. Also only added 2.25lbs of cabling
Had to figure out the new weights from each area of the car. Front : -Stock Battery/Trace/Holder -29.75, + .5lbs underhood connectors = -29.25lbs Middle: + Cable 2.25lbs Rear: Shorai Battery/Mount/ Negative Cable +6.25lbs New car weight 2342lbs Stock battery/tray/Tie bar Connection point I made out of and old Rubber Exhaust hanger Connected those to the stock under battery bracket Weight of the 4gauge cable I had leftover from stereo installs - Minus what I didn't use Weight of the Battery/Mount/Negative Cable Installed in the trunk, used the spare tire mount for my ground point, Idled the car for 10 mins everything seems great! In summary I was able to Take alot of weight off the front and only add a few total pounds, put some over the rear tires!! Last edited by SuperTom; 01-07-2020 at 01:09 PM. |
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Only thing I'd say is you moved weight outside the wheelbase of the car. The more a mass is centered in the vehicle, the better it will handle. The Shorai in the stock spot should help F:R balance as your loosing weight towards the front.
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Yes I wanted it more centered (in front of the spare tire area) but there wasn't enough flat surface anywhere else to mount it |
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Well it was cold as balls today but I managed to get the Cusco SOFT rear sway bar installed today. This was with Godspeed Endlinks and new Nolathane bushings.
Total Package was 1lb lighter!! Current weight 2341lbs |
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Chase Bays Clutch line
Today installed the Chase Bays Clutch line. This removes the factory brackets with one clean line to the clutch slave. Also saves .25lbs off the front
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Also installed some 86 Cam Solenoid covers today, and converted a majority of the bolts in the engine bay to titanium
Cam solenoid covers + Radiator cap cover added .5 lbs Converting all the bolts to titanium -.5 I weight a batch of titanium bolts, then the stock bolts afterwards for a .25 pounds savings. I did this process 2x hence the -.5 lbs Basically the titanium bolts are half the weight of stock Titanium "Metal of the Gods!!" Stock bolt Titanium Bag of stock afterwards Bags of titanium Rusted Cam solenoids Nice! Everything combined didn't gain or lose weight but the engine bay now looks great. The pics came out a bit blurry but those titanium bolts really shine in real life |
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You will love that loss of rotating mass upfront with the Smaller Wilwood Yes I really want to do that BBD so bad. Im having trouble finding any real documentation on deleting the ABS. I know you could just rip it all out and have a bunch of lights/possible limp mode. Im talking about keeping the black box to trick the computer/ remove everything else. Anything Ive found is vague information I saw a pic from one guy who rerouted all the ABS back into itself. It looked like a convoluted mess. I want all the ABS piping gone/ Just keeping the black box. Simple and Light is the goal with this build |
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Whats your favorite type of cheese?
Mine is Swiss Cheese! A lot of work to save .5 lbs but it was free Found it easier to drill smaller holes than bigger holes through the Steel it also keep material around each hole Original is 3lbs 1oz, got it down to 2lbs 9oz |
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Seibon Hood
just installed my Seibon Dry Carbon Vented hood today!
I know you may be saying why didn't I go with the MPH hood which is lighter and I know functional - I really don't like the square box design of his vent looks, Looks better on BRZ's with the boxy front bumper - Since everything else is Seibon on my build I didn't want different CF's so close to each other. - These parts are now closeout so I didn't want to miss my chance and the prices are dropped. - If and when I do the roof I will go with MPH's since its way lighter than the Seibon if Im going to go through all that trouble. It wont be close to the other parts if there is a diffrence So on to it looks like this saves 2.5lbs over stock and that includes the hood pins Seibon Hood = 13.5lbs Hood Pins = .5lbs Stock hood with insulation = 16.5 Stock hood Some installed shots. It was cloudy out so you cant see the weave too well. Fitment was great New Vehicle weight 2338.5 LBS |
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