My car needs to go on diet...
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RE: My car needs to go on diet...
I would just take out your back seat, spare tire, trunk liner, jack etc. I weighed and totaled it to around 108 lbs. I can feel a real difference. Also you could do it all in under 5 min. so if you want it back in its super quick.
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RE: My car needs to go on diet...
ORIGINAL: Yuikio
Unsprung weight would be brakes, wheels, tires, lower control arms, the shock/spring assembly itself and that's it. Granted, each unsprung pound does significantly more to your performance than taking away weight that's accounted for by the suspension, but there's only so much you can do about that.
And Toff, if you get a real carbon fiber body panel, it's more like 4 pounds (2 kilograms?) not 15. Regular steel hoods and trunks weigh between (roughly) 20-30 pounds.
Evil, compared to other AWD sedans, the A4 isn't too bad. A WRX is almost 3100, an STi is about 3250, an Evo is within a couple pounds of the STi. A manual, 1.8T Quattro sedan is about 3250. It's just down on horsepower to an STi by exactly 100 percent.
ORIGINAL: sandman
ger rid of unsprung weight
pullies, wheels, etc.....
ger rid of unsprung weight
pullies, wheels, etc.....
And Toff, if you get a real carbon fiber body panel, it's more like 4 pounds (2 kilograms?) not 15. Regular steel hoods and trunks weigh between (roughly) 20-30 pounds.
Evil, compared to other AWD sedans, the A4 isn't too bad. A WRX is almost 3100, an STi is about 3250, an Evo is within a couple pounds of the STi. A manual, 1.8T Quattro sedan is about 3250. It's just down on horsepower to an STi by exactly 100 percent.
Curb Weight - Manual (lb.) 2998
Is that right?
Also... Im not looking at this car for the investment... the S4 is going to go down too, they are both a waste of money to mod. Im going to have this car for a damn long time.
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RE: My car needs to go on diet...
ORIGINAL: Yuikio
And Toff, if you get a real carbon fiber body panel, it's more like 4 pounds (2 kilograms?) not 15. Regular steel hoods and trunks weigh between (roughly) 20-30 pounds.
And Toff, if you get a real carbon fiber body panel, it's more like 4 pounds (2 kilograms?) not 15. Regular steel hoods and trunks weigh between (roughly) 20-30 pounds.
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RE: My car needs to go on diet...
if u want to cut out the fat and not go extreme
get racing seats
ligher battery
take out the spare
CF hood/trunk
and get light wieght wheels
that wont shave the much but it will help a lil
get racing seats
ligher battery
take out the spare
CF hood/trunk
and get light wieght wheels
that wont shave the much but it will help a lil
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RE: My car needs to go on diet...
ORIGINAL: EvilA4
Is that right, though? 2998 for the 1.8t? Thats lighter than a WRX...
Is that right, though? 2998 for the 1.8t? Thats lighter than a WRX...
Curb weight (lbs.):
FrontTrak®, manual: 2998
FrontTrak®, Tiptronic®: 3108
quattro®, manual: 3241
quattro®, Tiptronic®: 3362
and oh shiiit they remodeled the subarus now
the new ones are out
wow i am out out of touch wit the JDM scene
damn im to in to DTM now
the base 2.5 RS
Base Engine Size: 2.5 liters
Power: 173 hp/166 ft-lbs.
Curb Weight: 3016 lbs.
and damn they even beefed up the impreza also
Subaru Imprez
Base Engine Size: 2.5 liters
Power: 230 hp/235 ft-lbs.
Curb Weight: 3296 lbs
STi
Base Engine Size: 2.5 liters
Power: 300 hp/300 ft-lbs.
Curb Weight: 3296 lbs
and all i can say it ewwwww
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RE: My car needs to go on diet...
Its a lot less ugly that the predesessor! At least it has a discernable style to it now. I think its a big improvment, but b7y no means a 'pretty' car! The evo beats it on looks alone.
