Thread: gt VR Join Date Dec Posts Yea too heavy.. Join Date Aug Location u. Join Date Dec Posts 6. Although it is somewhat costly the VR4 can be built to produce near hp. In the quarter the Stealth will eat the Viper alive. The RT TT is very enjoyable to drive where as the Viper is cool but a pain unless you are going over 80mph. Certainly I dont rate the Stealth as a super car but for a street machine it is really a killer compared to just about anything out there It does the quarter in 9.
I have a stage III built by these guys and it runs in the mid 10s. To start with a good deal of the weight is the AWD.
This coupled with items like the power seats 80lbs , three spection drive staff with bearings 48lbs - and the like bring it in at about lbs. It is pretty easy to get it down to about lbs You will also see that the Z06 with a procharger on it runs the quarter in By the way the Z06 weights in at about lbs which is not all the light. Even though I have nearly 35K invested in the engine, to total cost is far more reasonable then my Z06 or Viper and the plus with the AWD and AW Steering which makes it handle like a cat Posts Are we reduced to this again?
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Its twin-turbo 6G72 3. It was also unique in that it was only available with a manual transmission, gaining a gear from 5 to 6 halfway through its production cycle. And if you wanted to reduce the weight, I'd say dump the chassis and get a go-kart :p. Lightnings are fat pigs too and you dont hear people bitchin about there weight. Cobras are fatasses as well. Yea the supras had the 2jz-GE and 2jz-GTE engines in them, but the body style is called the jza BTW I am not thinking of trying to make a vr4 into a dragster I want to lighten it up to where it can outcorner the supra.
The late model GTs corner at. The gt will outdo the supra it all depends on the driver IMO If thats all you want then do basic lightening and then turn your attention to the suspension system. Words of advice for suspesion tuning - do as much reseach as possible. Just lowering your car or "tightening" it up can easily decrease performance or give the car undesirable handling characteristics by changing the geomerty of the suspension.
Sticky tires are nice too. Well, my rear end tends to slide out I do have one tire that happens to be the wrong size The thing with weight and traction is they don't increase linearly. If you keep adding weight over a wheel traction increases but it begins to level off. For example if you have lbs over a tire and you add 50lbs the increase is greater than if you had lbs over a wheel and you add 50lbs.
But the relationship between the conering force needed to hold traction and wieght is linear. So with increased wieght you need more conering force but your traction doesn't increase at the same rate. Plus there are far better ways to balance the handling than adding weight like adjusting the ARB stiffness is a good start.
That skinny tire might not be good either. Although one time i came in way too hot on an on ramp that quickly tightened up on me and i had the car sideways. Luckily it didn't end up in the guardrail. True boost I know that the overall weight of the vehicle will cause the performance to drop Also, to my understanding True'ish, if you really want to setup properly you need a fully adjustable suspension, toe bars torsion and tension rods and lower arms, Pillow mounts front and rear, then The parts that are out there for the GT's are pretty good and for the price work well together, that includes the sway bars and strut braces.
Struts braces are a good nonexpensive start after springs and or shocks and are a great for a start in racing. Once you hit the lines of ladder bars you really need to be thinking about pro setup as tightening them to far will produce a positive camber that will adversly affect the handling ie make it crap! In short if you have the money get it set by the pro's if not then stick to anti roll bars, poly brushes, strut bars and sport suspensions, tbh for most peeps this will be enough.
People pay wayyyyy too much attention to the weight issue. The whole power to weight ratio thing does matter but this gutting your car and making it lighter means making it faster crap got started by Civic drivers who had no other way of justifying why in the world they bought a 1. Thier only ressort was to say "well my car is lighter. You gotta understand that power to weight dossent mean a thing unless the difference is great, as in a lbs difference. My old eclipse ran I'm not at all suggesting that weight cutting is the solution to handling problems, all I said was adding weight doesn't make your car "stick" better, which is a common misconception I've seen people make before.
Or when you hear guys just putting lowering springs in their car and now thier suspenion arms are pitched at an angle they were never designed to move through.
But weight loss never hurt anyone. That tenth of a second could be the difference in a close race.
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