civic wrote:ur a smart man but wat u just said then made everybody on this fourm 5% dumber . Iweigh 60kg my wheels do not weigh 30kg not even half that. If ur exhaust wayed 25kg i would be taking it back as a exhaust should only be 15-20 and dont forget i have taken my back seat out and my spare tyre my seats aye 50% lighter and getting a civic to 480kg hahahahahaha yeah right
i did respect u on this fourm but ur starting to get cama / give shit to people u will be getting it right back
Ok I just tried to post a reply but lost here, Ill try again.
-10kg for your weight, fair enough
Wheels: you have speedy sirocco chrome mags. These are a cast mag so probably weigh 8kg each at the very least, probably closer to 10kg. Tyres are approximately 10-12kg each so your wheels/tyres inflated are about 20kg a corner. That makes 80kg. Compare that to the weight of the factory 12" steelies and 145 crossplies and I think you will be quite surprised at the weight difference.
Exhaust: I just did some calculations and yes I may have exagerrated a bit there, my car has about 13kg worth of 2.5" pipe and probably 5kg of muffler, add another 1kg for weld and flanges and tip and you have about 18-19kg of exhaust, about what you say.
Back seat weighs about 10-12kg. Spare tyre probably 10kg so thats another -20kg
What type of seats are you using? Thats a lot lighter. say -20kg for those.
Things I didnt add: Extra weight of the 5 speed transmission over the 4 speed or hondamatic, about 5kg, extra weight of an LSD, about 5kg. Not sure what brakes you are going with but I hope you are upgrading them :/
OK so thats a total of -60 kg from my original guess, so you race weight will be closer to 1000kg.
Me saying 480kg was actually a typo, it was 450kg. It was the mugen team race eb1 civic and it had a full cage and slicks. Made around 160hp from the EB1 motor N/A and was freaking quick (as you can imagine)
Balancing show and go isn't an easy thing to do as you say, personally I would have gone for a lighter weight interior theme. Carbon fiber looks freaking awesome and it weights next to nothing. Its not all that hard to make an mdf/bog plug up for a dash then have someone make a carbon shell for it.
Yeah so I don't think my estimates were so far off that the whole forum was made dumber :/