Friday, October 12, 2007 - 09:00 pm, by: David Eberhart(Orphan)
Any idea how much a stripped out soarer weighs? The D1 soarer is down to around 1290-1310kg with a 1J in it. I imagine a stripped v8 would be less if it had coils? Course the D1 soarer has CF doors.
Friday, October 12, 2007 - 10:45 pm, by: David Eberhart(Orphan)
Friends option dvd has an interview with the D1 driver and he said once you get the soarer down to around 1300kg's it starts to handle like a GT500 car or something. I suppose curb weight being ~1600kg across the range it would be hard to shed 300kg without basically replacing the chassi with CF.
Benjamin Burgess Goo Roo NSW Toyota Soarer GT-TL, Toyota Corolla Conquest
Saturday, October 13, 2007 - 09:04 am, by: Benjamin Burgess(Jampac)
Replace doors, bonnet and boot lid with CF and you have a 1300kg car from my already stripped 1500kg, but the cost just goes up exponentally as you try and reduce weight.
Saturday, October 13, 2007 - 04:52 pm, by: David Eberhart(Orphan)
Well the doors are about 2k a peice and apparently 'not safe' I don't see why the soarer needed such heavy doors considering many cars with high safety ratings have very light doors in comparison.
Where is the weight in the doors ben? are they just lotsa steel or is the trim heavy?
Saturday, October 13, 2007 - 06:27 pm, by: Luke Nieuwhof(Luke_nieuwhof)
And as always the age old question is do you really want to strip out a Soarer or does it defeat the purpose? If you want a racing car buy a Supra and strip that out, much better package.
Sunday, October 14, 2007 - 05:43 am, by: David Eberhart(Orphan)
supras are like 1400-1500kg's stock depending on whast in them. So they don't have that much on an advantage but they are a fair bit lighter stripped out, around 1200-1250kg from memory but what road supra is gonna be stripped?
All you have to do is go a supra that the drivers fat friend is also in and you've evened out the weight issue
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