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MWS · 01-31-2018, 03:05 PM

Thank you very much for answering, it's nice to have perspective from a track driver. Before your response and in trying to answer my own question, I looked at the owners manual for some numbers, listed below (for a base w/ manual transmission):

217 HP ;Weight: between 2777 lbs and 2954 lbs, which I averaged at 2866 lbs; 0-60mph 6.5 sec

Now I understand that these numbers are not scalable, but for giggles, if they were:
2866lbs/6.5sec=441 lbs/sec or 0.002267 sec/lbs.
Given 5 lbs reduction, that would equal just 0.01133 sec reduction on the 0-60 time, or with a car stripped of 100 lbs, an increase of 2/10ths of a second 0-60...which somehow sounds about right (at least to me)....

I should stay away from numbers, and stop asking questions.

01-31-2018, 03:05 PM	#6
MWS Registered User Join Date: May 2016 Location: Northern Indiana Posts: 410	Thank you very much for answering, it's nice to have perspective from a track driver. Before your response and in trying to answer my own question, I looked at the owners manual for some numbers, listed below (for a base w/ manual transmission): 217 HP ;Weight: between 2777 lbs and 2954 lbs, which I averaged at 2866 lbs; 0-60mph 6.5 sec Now I understand that these numbers are not scalable, but for giggles, if they were: 2866lbs/6.5sec=441 lbs/sec or 0.002267 sec/lbs. Given 5 lbs reduction, that would equal just 0.01133 sec reduction on the 0-60 time, or with a car stripped of 100 lbs, an increase of 2/10ths of a second 0-60...which somehow sounds about right (at least to me).... I should stay away from numbers, and stop asking questions.