Random Thoughts - Part Deux [NO POLITICS]

[Nevermore]

Originally Posted by Tcoat

The exhaust and tune are the very best jumping off point. Lightweight parts and such are part of a much bigger picture. If you do all the free weight reduction first and are running out of ways to do more then is the time to start looking at parts. The cost per gain ratio from a lightweight shaft is horrible.

Originally Posted by Ultramaroon

Hard pass unless trying to shave every ounce. If I cared about being "competetive" at all, I would first drop 70 pounds of my own weight before spending a dime on light parts for a real race car.


86 is not a race car. It is a fun car that can be raced.

Originally Posted by ScoobsMcGee

If you haven't done it already, and are looking for weight savings, get wheels and tires. The stock FRS wheel is 20.7 lbs, which is heavy for a 17x7. The cliche RPF1s in 17x7.5 are 15.1 lbs, and can accommodate a 225 width tire. That's about a 18 - 20 lbs savings in unsprung weight, with more tire (estimated because I have no idea how much weight the wider tire will add). In contrast, a carbon driveshaft seems to save about 10 lbs. If you wait until your tires need replaced anyway, the wheels will likely be less expensive as well.

Or this. If I could lay off the junk food all over the place at work, and go hiking more, I could probably drop 30 or so pounds of driver myself. If it mattered.

Also tempted to make that last part a sig.

Well, I'm not trying to make a race car, just looking for simple changes. But if the drive shaft isn't worth it then I'll stick with the exhaust and tune. I already have wheels and tires, and they're far from the lightest option, but they're still no heavier than the stock setup.

Originally Posted by Spuds

Tire weight makes a bigger difference than wheel weight...

Originally Posted by ScoobsMcGee

Any change is negligible at best, but if it matters that much then just stick with 17x7 and 215 tires. With 225, you'd also have to calculate the additional rolling resistance, assuming that we're only concerned with acceleration and not cornering speed.

I guess I shouldn't have gotten 245/40 MPSS then...

[Teseo]

Originally Posted by Nevermore

Well, I'm not trying to make a race car, just looking for simple changes. But if the drive shaft isn't worth it then I'll stick with the exhaust and tune. I already have wheels and tires, and they're far from the lightest option, but they're still no heavier than the stock setup.



I guess I shouldn't have gotten 245/40 MPSS then...

Until you see tge price tag

[Nevermore]

Originally Posted by Teseo

Until you see tge price tag

I mean...
http://www.ft86speedfactory.com/driv...l#.WvYlx2Eh200

That doesn't seem too bad. The exhaust components I want cost a lot more than that haha

[Ultramaroon]

Ho's here.

[ichitaka05]

Hm... I think we might need to get new random thoughts thread soon... it's starting to pushing back a page when I click on the "last" page.

[Ultramaroon]

Noooooo!


Pshh... works fine for me.

[Teseo]

Originally Posted by Ultramaroon

Noooooo!


Pshh... works fine for me.

Its still fine, russian got him and hacked him

[Spuds]

Originally Posted by ichitaka05

Hm... I think we might need to get new random thoughts thread soon... it's starting to pushing back a page when I click on the "last" page.

Noooooo!


... Oh wait, Ultras got that part covered.

[Tcoat]

Originally Posted by Ultramaroon

Ho's here.

Where are the chocolates and flowers? You told me I had to bring chocolate and flowers.

[Tcoat]

Originally Posted by ichitaka05

Hm... I think we might need to get new random thoughts thread soon... it's starting to pushing back a page when I click on the "last" page.

I still line up. We should at least go to 50,000 posts. So sometime next week.

[ichitaka05]

Originally Posted by Tcoat

I still line up. We should at least go to 50,000 posts. So sometime next week.

Yeah... we’ll make new random thread every 50k.

[x808drifter]

Originally Posted by ichitaka05

Hm... I think we might need to get new random thoughts thread soon... it's starting to pushing back a page when I click on the "last" page.

That's been an ongoing thing for ages now. (At least a decade FWIW)

I usually see it happen when the forum software gets confused about how many pages there are and makes a new page, but there isn't actually a post on the new page.

The instant someone makes a new post to actually require a new page, it starts to work correctly again.

[Dadhawk]

What @x808drifter said...

That's the only time I see it on Random Thoughts 2 right now, and I see that on all the threads, not just here. The old Random thoughts 1 was off by 5 or 6 pages for me before we switched.

[Brink]

Originally Posted by x808drifter

That's been an ongoing thing for ages now. (At least a decade FWIW)

I usually see it happen when the forum software gets confused about how many pages there are and makes a new page, but there isn't actually a post on the new page.

The instant someone makes a new post to actually require a new page, it starts to work correctly again.

I thought someone had said it happens when there are moderated messages in a thread - the messages are still there in the forum database so it generates the page count based on that but they're not displayed to most of us so the page count doesn't line up with what we can actually see.