Sunday, April 19, 2009 - 03:17 pm, by: Ben Lipman(Ben12a)
The manaray sports I have are 9.9kg each. The supras are (from memory) 10.1kg. To get some significantly lighter wheels we are talking between three and four thousand bucks. That's a lot of cash for 3-4 kg per wheel. For that sort of money you can buy full carbon fibre doors and lexan windows and save nearly 40kg.
I am not that serious. My focus on weight saving is mostly due to the fact it is bloody good value for money.
I don't think I can find a lighter cooler that will still work, either.
I am fiddling with the idea of swapping exhausts from the road car to track car. There is a lot of stainless steel in the track car exhaust, and it has two resonators much like the factory system. On the road car it is simply 3" pipe, cat, 3" pipe, split, twin 2.5" Trust straight through mufflers. Only the mufflers are stainless.
It is not a straight forward job though, as the road car system is custom and has different flanges at different points. Of course, I'd have to put a cat on for the road car as well and get rid of the one for the track car.
