All Things Mk5 > Performance Modifications
Ways of reducing the weight of our cars
fuscobal:
OEM right engine mount > 1875g for the old one that came with the car (2006 model) and 1911g for the updated one that looks much more robust
OEM pulley > 1639g
Fluidampr pulley > 2738g
OEM upper strut mount > 1051g
Bilstein B16 front spring > 1444g
Bilstein B16 front damper > 3831g
Coe:
I'm gonna get a bit technical here on weight saving. You could remove the spare wheel, jack and tools. There's a fair bit weight saved there. Job done get a brew on ;)
Just hope you don't have a puncture lol
fuscobal:
Spare wheel + tools have like 15Kg. What I'm afraid though is not having a too light rear after removing these and the rear seats !
Carrera2RS:
I would look to the front of the car and focus on brakes and suspension to lose some unsprung mass. I am hoping brakes and bottom arms will save 5kg per corner, then adjust the suspension accordingly and add horsepower. That will be the most effective performance for your money. Battery is interesting though !
CF panels would be very nice but very expensive :happy2:
I spent a lot of time lightening a semi track car before and it gets very expensive, with doors, wings etc in alloy or Carbon. Usually the big wins are :
Front Seats
rear seats & Trim (If you are prepared to lose rear seats etc)
Doors (may beed a cage to deal with side impact protection)
Bonnet, wings in CF
Wheels, brakes (win, win)
Exhaust (win, win) - suspect nothing much to be gained here
Flywheel (win, win)
Remove stuff you don't need !
Snoopy:
You know the funny thing is alot of the people that go this route and strip the cars right down to save weight when you see them or a photo of them it often makes me PMSL.
Because they never look at themselfs and think, hey i could do with loosing quite a few KG myself that may help :grin:
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