i have the se with leather so i know my model is particularly heavier than other 5th gens. i did some brainstorming but other than the spare tire cant come up with any ideas on reducing some extra pounds. ive seen a 4th gen that was down to 2800 with a full leather interior...HOW?????

anyone have any ideas on what to take out to drop some weight? ANYTHING????

 

you could sell me your leather inteior if u wanna drop some weight

 

take heated seats out.....take Bose sub out....put lightweight wheels on....lightweight drive pulley and flywheel......take fog lights out....take jack/lug wrench out....take trunk lining out.....

 

AC compressor, seats, don't fill up a full tank of gas, lighter rims...

If you're really hardcore you could do this:



http://forums.maxima.org/showthread....ight+reduction

 

pull out all of the sound damepening material under the carpeting attached to your frame. Remove the lining under your hood. Take everything out of the trunk, remove he back seats, depends how crazy u wanna go i guess. You can also shed a few lbs off yourself if you want, and wear nike performance sneakers.

 

Two word: Carbon Fiber. Get a CF hood and trunk lid.
You can also get light weight 17" rims to help with reducing your rotational mass.

 

Irish: You can only do a flywheel on a manual tranny.

Anywho, the most significant weight reduction mod would be light weight rims. You don't have to rip anything out of your car, and the performance increases are fantastic. A nice 15-17lb rim set will throw an additional 15 or so horsies to your wheels. Getting a light weight underdrive pulley will give you an additional 2HP and a crank pulley will nab you around 3HP. These weight reduction mods will bring your overall horsepower performance much closer to your crank performance of 222HP.

 

you can get rid of at least 100 pounds easy!!....just set the car up to be radio controlled! (you can even get NOS for RC cars now!!!)

 

Maxima-Ness;


why not just hire a highly trained chimp to drive the car for you, adn watch from outside?

 

laxatives

 

really.........

 

Yes. Stock rims weigh 24lbs.

For every pound front rim weighs = 7lbs of theoretical weight in the car.
For every pound rear rim weighs = 4lbs in the car
50lbs of weight in the car = loss of 3WHP.

If you drop 10lbs off of each rim...count that up. 140lbs from the front rims. 80lbs from the rear rims.

220lbs divided by 50lbs = 4.4 x 3HP = 13.2WHP.

Some say that the reducing the rear rims is still 7lbs out of the car, but that doesn't make sense, because the rear wheels are dragged along.

 

That's just theoretical numbers.

 

if the stock rims weigh in at 24lbs? How much do the..
1. Mille Miglia Evo 5's (heard these where heavy.)
2.Alessio's
3.Moda r6
4.HP evo Lightnings weigh?

 

you are asking for FLAMES

take some of your,,valuable time and search on GOOGLE for them...Have you ever heard of::: doing LEG WORK yourself???

 

Hey guys,

I REALLY don't want to get in the middle of things or get into it with anyone either. That being said, it's really starting to get rediculous around here as far as helping people out. What the hell is wrong with someone asking a question like the one that was asked? What is wrong with sharing info on the org? I thought that was the basis of being part of a site like this; finding and sharing information about our cars. I think that too many people have forgotten what it's like to be a noob and not know much about their maxima's. I would rather tell someone something that takes 10 minutes of my time to type rather than them spending hours or days trying to find something on the org. I remember what it was like to not know much about my car and feeling comfortable asking other people for their input. Honestly, it's gotten to where some of you guys put more time and effort into bashing people than it would take to answer the fuc'in question.

And Zippin, this isn't directed so much to you as some other people on the org, I know that you're a long time member and have helped plenty. I mean no offense to you personally.

So anyone,new or not, that has any questions about anything, feel free to PM me. I don't know everything or even close to it, but I will try to help as best I can when I have the time. That is what the org used to mean to me.

 

I have a simple solution that makes sense. First get lightweight wheels. Next loose the spare tire. And lastly get an all aluminum dashboard and loose everything else in the interior including the carpeting. Keep just the bare essentials only. Hope everything works out for you.

Good luck.

 

avg male is 200 lbs or less. since the summer is coming double up by losing a few lbs.

 

that is incorrect, actually the average male weight is more like 180lbs.

 

man, when i read this thread i thought back to that sentra article posted in the other thread. that is the funniest thing i had ever seen.

 

of you want to go all out u can pull out your airbags, sell them to me since mine are blown and just put your covers back on.

 

mad2kmax, chill out man. i was seriously kidding. sometimes i just do that to discuss something other than leds, wheels, maf and coils.

 

i though that every pound off the front wheels = 8 pounds of rotational mass
the rear doesnt matter at all in this case cause its fwd?