Car booked into weight watchers.

[BrokenLinkage]

Anyone know if the oem Porsche "sport" seats with the shoulder bolster weigh more or less than the standard leather/power back seats?

[truegearhead]

The stock exhaust is impressively heavy. I'd guess 45lbs, the eBay units are about 20 I've stripped quite of my 2.5 and can feel a difference, you can cut quite a bit of weight without sacrificing anything. I really wish you could get a Spyder style top and loose the whole mechanical top assembly. If you really want to go for it there is a lot of weight in the bumpers...but that's probably not a great idea

So far
(60lbs)Stock seats trades for GT3 flebay seats
(10lbs)Cat delete
(25lbs)Exhaust
(10lbs)automatic top motor, gearbox and mechanicals
(5lbs)insulation on firewall
~110lbs

[litespeedp]

Running at about only 1/4 full tank of fuel will drop about 72 lbs.

12 gal @ lbs/gallon.

[The Radium King]

for mr. gear head:

986 Porsche Boxster SPYDER conversion | TuneRS Motorsports – Porsche performance, repair and restoration

[Johnny Danger]

By going "commando" you can shed several ounces via an underwear delete. Just use caution when opening or closing the clamshell.

[truegearhead]

Originally Posted by The Radium King

for mr. gear head:

986 Porsche Boxster SPYDER conversion | TuneRS Motorsports – Porsche performance, repair and restoration

Awesome! I wonder how much that is! Gotta be $$$$

[The Radium King]

personally I think they made it too complicated - you have to bring your car to florida to get it fitted. I would rather a fg shell that fastens at the spinlocks and rear trunk latch and that's it. still waiting.

for weight, seats are a good one. beware the cheap knockoff seats. without some form of certification (ie, fia) you are taking a chance with a very important piece of safety gear.

if you do a bumper delete, better figure out how you tow your car if you need too (tow hooks screw into the bumper).

LW battery will get you 20 lbs or so. you know those braille batteries they sell on suncoast? they are just rebranded deka batteries; check out the deka etx14 and an $8 terminal kit (take care on which side the +'ve terminal is - you can get either). and forget expensive custom battery brackets; another $8 at any autoparts store will get you a universal bracket that fits.

air conditioning pump weighs 20 lbs or so.

oz allegheritta wheels (sp?) are relatively inexpensive, look excellent (really fill out the wheel wells) and save a minimum of 5 lbs rotating mass at each corner.

secondary air injection pump is light, but removing it gets rid of 50% of the hoses cluttering up the top of the engine (the other 50% is that f'ing aos ...).

take a dump before you drive and get titanium fillings in your teeth. good for a few more pounds.

[Topless]

My stock seats were about 50lbs ea. with rails and mounts. Cobra FIA seats bolted to the floor with FIA mounts are about 25lb ea.

Stock battery, 45lbs >>> Shorai lightweight 5lbs
Stock exhaust 45lbs >>> lightweight loud-ass muffler 20lbs ( I didn't do this)
Spare and tool kit- 30lbs
Carpet kit around motor and floormats 22lbs
I like A/C and a working top so I left em alone.

160lbs might be worth 1-2 seconds per lap on a racetrack when you don't have a ton of HP to work with. Depends on the track and the driver.

[litespeedp]

Ha! I often wondered about the weight savings if any by filling the tires with helium.

Do we have any physicist's out there?