So These SC's are some porky bastards. I came from a S14 that weighed 2810 after a full roll cage, so these things are whales for me.

What is the fastest/cheapest way to save weight on these cars? I will be replacing the drivers seat and seat belt with a Bride/Takata combo, as well as the SRS Airbag wheel with a Nardi and quick release. But what else can be easily ditched or swapped for lighter stuff.

Also, what is the absolute BEST fitting carbon fiber hood available for these cars? OEM style preferred.

 

taking out the factory seats and putting my racing seats in was a nice weight reduction and my vis carbon hood fits perfect and is soo much lighter then the oem hood.

 

I searched for 'weight' in the title of threads in the SC forum and have the following threads that should be helpful (among many others)

https://www.clublexus.com/forums/sc-...worksheet.html
https://www.clublexus.com/forums/sc-...wn-weight.html
https://www.clublexus.com/forums/per...-our-cars.html

 

why does everybody come from nissan? Everybody here must have had a 240 bfore

 

Screw the hood, just drive nude!

 

remove:
*seats
*doors
*hood

 

I never had a 240, I had 300ZX's but that sticks with the coming from Nissan theme.

 

Here are Free ways to shave weight:

1. Detar the whole car Shave like 30-50 lb's out.
2. Ditch all audio system. Aka amp, changer, sub, headunit
3. Remove rear seats
4. Delete A/C ( Pump, condenser, etc)
5. dump spare tire if need be
6. if you don't have the spare tire.. you don't need the jack or the tire iron... that can go too.
7. Don't carry a passenger? well ditch that seat too..

the areas that can really save weight with replacing is the seats, the hood.. and majorly.. the doors.. the doors are extremely heavy. Carbon trunk would help also.

you can always take out the old gas tank and swap in a fuel cell..


( I came from 240sx's also and a rx7)

 

carbon fiber hood, door and trunk are available, doors are expensive about $1700 for the pair but they do save a lot of weight

spare tire, jacks etc

 

Ive never owned a Nissan and NEVER will. basicly if your looking to remove weight from your car, you need a hood, doors, trunk lid, remove driver and passenger seat, remove the sound deadening and other things.

 

Dave4GS's links seem to have this covered pretty well.

Haha - I noticed that in the SC forum and in the GS forum. A lot of EX Acura/Honda guys in the 2GS's too.

 

8. Go on a diet, that sometimes helps.

 

The guys in Australia are soon gonna have the option of buying fibreglass boot lids (saves about 17kg). Really depends how far you want to go. Strip the entire interior minus the dash and steering wheel, carbon fibre doors, boot lid and bonnet.

 

i came from a 530i ..its my mom's but thats what i was driving before i got my sc..

 

I came from a black 94 mk3 Jetta, still miss it, it was my hand-me-down first car. But love my dream car from when i was a little kid, thats right, that beautiful SC.