Edo, this is a NASA H2 car?
Yes its a H2 car.
Edo
I did a back to back test to see how much difference dropping 100 lbs makes on the race track.
Race 1: 2570 lbs with driver, best lap time 1:19.6
Race 2: 2470 lbs with driver, best lap time 1:19.1
The races were about 5 minutes apart, so track conditions were exactly the same. In the first race I didn’t have any traffic to deal with so I had a lot of clean laps to hit that best lap time. In the second race I only had 1 lap where I wasn’t bottled up behind a slower car. Given a few more laps, I would have had an even better time.
For reference, spending $1000 on Hoosier R6s gained me 0.5 seconds over the Toyo RA-1s that I usually buy that are $600 a set and last about twice as long.
Losing weight was way cheaper, and just as effective!
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Race 1: 2570 lbs with driver, best lap time 1:19.6
Race 2: 2470 lbs with driver, best lap time 1:19.1
Losing weight was way cheaper, and just as effective![/QUOTE]
Colin Chapman would be proud to hear more people following his philosophy!
everything is easier for your car when there is less for it to haul around.
you can make a heavy car brake, accelerate and handle like a light car but you need even heavier parts and more money.
id rather have a 2200lb car with 220hp than a 3500lb car with 350hp, same power to weight ratio, but my tires, brakes, fuel and suspension components will be wearing down slower/doing less work during the same situations, allowing for more laps and faster laptimes.
thanks for the real-world data analysis on this, jdi. i was about to get a friends p-box and try to find a relation between laptimes and specific amounts of weight taken removed, kinda like where the sweet spot is in weight distribution vs total weight, see if there even is a sweet spot somewhere for these cars, or if they just keep getting faster and more nose heavy
We’re hoping to be somewhere in the 2K-2.1K area with our project build. A lot of work going into it, but the overall goal is to build a Teg with style, and driver comfort that is still light weight, and nimble all the while retaining streetability. And yes the moonroof will be staying… I love a car with a moonroof. Besides after pulling ours out for paint prep, I guesstimate it only weighs around 10-12 lbs.
And Weasel you have an email buddy. Sorry for the delay, we’ve just been uber busy around these parts.
Thats only for the glass though. I removed the entire assembly this past week and it weighs a good 35 pounds…
Had my car weighed last week.
2200 pounds with a full tank. (stock fuel tank)
Positive? I pulled the whole assembly and it didn’t seem to weigh that much. Maybe my weighing skills are off a bit. I’ll have to bust out the scale so it can actually be documented.
Thats weird, check it out. I got 35lbs on a bathroom scale.
Weighed my sunroof assembly at 35 as well.
Everything in this list was weighed by me, except the items marked as “estimated”: http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0Ai6yQQW6nneqcEt4b29MNE0yOTFla3RSVnVhbE10Tmc&hl=en
lol
my 92 weighs 1537 without me in it. but, yes, everything is out of the car…well except both seats, carpet and lightened dash. no ps or ac and cf hatch and hood. :whew: