Losing weight

[spawpoet]

Panasports generally aren't all that light compared to some other wheels out there. You could have up to 20 lbs to lose here depending on how much you want to spend on wheels.

[Ron Earp]

Jeff, Dick, and other have pointed out what you have to do. And, having done the same thing on other cars, and most recently on my Mustangs(s), my advice is to do it yourself - do not take the internet as the final answer. There is good advice here, use it, but you won't know until you do the job yourself and use your scales to verify your weight loss.

On my recent build we:

*Lost 9 lbs of sound deadening I for sure thought was only around two lbs. Man it was a lot of work.

*Lost 11 lbs of wiring that I thought was only four or five, and, there is more to lose. This was more work than the scraping of deadening.

*Learned a bunch about the actual weight of wheels. This is a very trouble-prone area because of what folks will tell you, that the company that makes the wheels will tell you, and then there's reality.

And the list goes on.

You need to think in terms of ounces and pounds, not in terms of five or ten pounds. They'll add up to tens of pounds, and hundreds if you keep after it. It all depends on how much effort you want to put into it. There isn't an easy button for weight loss on a car. We've just been through WeightLoss1.0 on the stangs and WeightLoss2.0 will start late this year when racing season is over.

[tderonne]

Check you cage weight calcs. Google says 2"x.080 weighs 2 pounds per foot, giving you over 130 pounds of cage (in tubing alone)...

[seckerich]

2.00 X .083 is DOM size and weighs 1.699 #/ft

113.266 #

Smallest legal is 1.5 X .095 and is 1.426#/ft

95# same cage

[Flyinglizard]

Too much tubing and undercoating?

[joeg]

Appears a lot of things...Driver, gutting doors, tubing etc.

[seckerich]

Weigh a gallon of paint sometime and see how many layers you have.