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+23Qfabbed ino20 chuck_chizzle Riggle 240sxguy cool_kat 77 kouki_chee thefreack 93sapphirecoupe theboy sleepyeyed240 600SX s13.240sx lssilvia drftx fbmbiker79 Lizmo Isuckdickforthe240scenebr Flicktitty traphikcod4 ohhhizzzy speed_demon 27 posters |
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kouki_chee Senior member
Posts : 990 Join date : 2010-09-14 Location : stevens point
| Subject: Re: Superlight S13 - No 56K! Tue Oct 25, 2011 7:39 pm | |
| U should get a carbon fiber or fiberglass trunk with a plastic windshield... My 240sx hatch struts are dead and its a ***** to lift | |
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speed_demon Senior member
Posts : 450 Join date : 2011-07-21 Location : Green Bay
| Subject: Re: Superlight S13 - No 56K! Tue Oct 25, 2011 7:44 pm | |
| Also, I had to post this too. My town car is close to the exact opposite of my 240. 4500lbs curb weight, with 20 gals of fuel and a passenger it could easily top 5K. Power everything, auto everything, even friggin automagic rain sensing windshield wipers. This is my DD. Kouki, the CF hatch weighs about 5lbs less than the steel unit. Most of the weight is in the window. A lexan unit is a possibility for the future. | |
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speed_demon Senior member
Posts : 450 Join date : 2011-07-21 Location : Green Bay
| Subject: Re: Superlight S13 - No 56K! Tue Oct 25, 2011 7:50 pm | |
| Here is a shot of the basics for my interior. I have since done a lot more weight reduction on the easy stuff, like skinning the wiring to remove the stereo cables and removing the panel that holds the jack. IIRC, I lost more than 10lbs total from switching to manual seat belts as well. Partially removed. This was a real pain to cut out, also note that it is not integral to anything. It is not necessary to retain this unless you are keeping a jack or radio antenna here. See the spot welds started? My first real weight reduction. I removed the aesthetic only rear spoiler and saved 7lbs. Very little rust under here, and I capped the holes temporarily with some simple hardware I had laying around. Doesn't leak either.
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kouki_chee Senior member
Posts : 990 Join date : 2010-09-14 Location : stevens point
| Subject: Re: Superlight S13 - No 56K! Tue Oct 25, 2011 7:53 pm | |
| Sweet now i know that... I kinda figured the glass had a big part of it | |
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theboy Senior member
Posts : 678 Join date : 2011-06-05 Age : 35 Location : South Beloit, IL
| Subject: Re: Superlight S13 - No 56K! Tue Oct 25, 2011 9:45 pm | |
| - 600SX wrote:
- theboy wrote:
- if your being such a weight whore, why bother with having any interior? Just make a tin kit dash with the basic gauges, throw a seat in, gut the doors (rivet lexan in for windows), throw away the fake radio bs(extra "grams"), and start carving the floor out of the rear for a 5-10 gal fuel cell. Seems like its a lot of bolt on weight savings where you could really lighten the entire car up with more effort.
Just my $.02 so dont be mad
Either way keep up the work
- 93sapphirecoupe wrote:
- exactly^ counting grams in other places is pointless if you have all that garbage still.
It isn't pointless. It's in the car to be looked at by people like you to say, "this isn't a race car, it has full interior", and then have him hand you your ass. You're welcome. tint the windows dark and people will never look inside. Also i thought the point of a sleeper was to look stock/slow on the outside. If your look slow outside whos really going to care what you have inside. People will just think your some punk kid following trends. Then hand them their ass. Just said what i said since you were trying put your car on as much of a diet as possible, and thats just one more way. | |
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speed_demon Senior member
Posts : 450 Join date : 2011-07-21 Location : Green Bay
| Subject: Re: Superlight S13 - No 56K! Tue Oct 25, 2011 10:50 pm | |
| Don't worry about it, everything on the car is fully thought out. I am doing the absolute best I can with what I have. | |
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thefreack Senior member
Posts : 579 Join date : 2011-05-26 Age : 40 Location : delavan
| Subject: Re: Superlight S13 - No 56K! Tue Oct 25, 2011 10:54 pm | |
| I think you are doing a great job. Keep it up | |
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speed_demon Senior member
Posts : 450 Join date : 2011-07-21 Location : Green Bay
| Subject: Re: Superlight S13 - No 56K! Wed Oct 26, 2011 2:07 am | |
| Copied from one of my other build logs. I missed a few updates in the sequence. I realized something earlier today as I was pricing out what it would cost to convert an LS7 to a wet sump oiling system. I am basically trying to build myself a shelby cobra-esque car making it as light and raw as I can using the Nissan body in sort of a wolf in sheep's clothing style. For many different reasons I want this car to stand out as little as possible, so the fact that these 240s are often mistaken for probes and come factory equipped with 140hp works to my advantage. I have found that in many cases a well laid out plan is the foundation for any good project, so I am assembling a basic blueprint for future progress. My main criteria so far are: I would like this car to be under 2500lbs with the V8 engine. I need this car to be mechanically sound and daily driver reliable - Although it will mainly be a weekend vehicle. The exhaust must be as quiet as most new production sedans (with the cutout closed, if I use one). I would like it to look like the LS engine and anything else under the hood is original equipment - No chrome or obviously out of place items. I am figuring for an area of 6-8k with an LS1, 8-10k with an LS3, and 13-16k with an LS7 installed in my car, fully complete driving down the road. I am still not sure of which one to go with. - I have decided to go with an aluminum 5.3 for now with an LS7 in the works for later.Each one has it's strengths and weaknesses, but a 7500RPM 427 is a very hard thing to pass up - Even if I have to save my pennies for a few years to buy it. And of course I have more pictures. This is a Speed Racer license plate frame. I just had to buy this, really I did. I think it's hilarious given my nickname and the way this build is going.
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speed_demon Senior member
Posts : 450 Join date : 2011-07-21 Location : Green Bay
| Subject: Re: Superlight S13 - No 56K! Wed Oct 26, 2011 2:09 am | |
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77 Senior member
Posts : 398 Join date : 2011-04-17
| Subject: Re: Superlight S13 - No 56K! Wed Oct 26, 2011 6:01 am | |
| Sweet build. Can you take a picture of the area behind the jack panel you removed? I've always wanted to cut those parts out. | |
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93sapphirecoupe Senior member
Posts : 662 Join date : 2011-05-05
| Subject: Re: Superlight S13 - No 56K! Wed Oct 26, 2011 12:27 pm | |
| i understand what youre going for. but if youre going through all the trouble i would just take the interior stuff out too. (thats just me) most "ricer" kids gut out there cars anyways to look cool or whatever, most people wouldnt think to much of it. looks like you missed some tar on your wheel wells too! im all or nothing type of guy though. i think once people hear the car running all bets are off anyways. its pretty hard to quiet those big motors down to stealth status. you could go to a waste spark and remove 4 of your coils. that should be worth a few pounds. jk. i do love the concept of your build. i am a huge believer in adding simplicity and lightness to my race cars. so keep it going! | |
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speed_demon Senior member
Posts : 450 Join date : 2011-07-21 Location : Green Bay
| Subject: Re: Superlight S13 - No 56K! Fri Oct 28, 2011 8:07 pm | |
| 77, I will have a picture up for you shortly.
93, I considered going with the fairly uncommon one off set of carbon fiber valve covers for sale on LS1tech right now, and those along with a set of harley davidson's lightweight ignition coils would reduce a measly 3-6lbs for around $1K.
I could take a dremel with a few cut off wheels and a $10 bottle of booze and chop that much weight off of the engine block itself before I passed out, so for the cost it isn't worth it. | |
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thefreack Senior member
Posts : 579 Join date : 2011-05-26 Age : 40 Location : delavan
| Subject: Re: Superlight S13 - No 56K! Sun Oct 30, 2011 9:03 pm | |
| I think you should go along with you act to pass it off as a Ford probe by putting the emblems on the car | |
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speed_demon Senior member
Posts : 450 Join date : 2011-07-21 Location : Green Bay
| Subject: Re: Superlight S13 - No 56K! Mon Oct 31, 2011 12:50 pm | |
| I don't do stickers though. I briefly considered a few autozone special edition/V8/turbo emblems, but I couldn't do it.
The car is black and dented up in a few places, enough so that it will pass off as an old crappy car either way. | |
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thefreack Senior member
Posts : 579 Join date : 2011-05-26 Age : 40 Location : delavan
| Subject: Re: Superlight S13 - No 56K! Mon Oct 31, 2011 2:29 pm | |
| Yeah I am not a fan of stickers either. I just put that out there as maybe ssomething to help throw unsuspecting people off. I'm not a big fan of Ford either | |
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speed_demon Senior member
Posts : 450 Join date : 2011-07-21 Location : Green Bay
| Subject: Re: Superlight S13 - No 56K! Tue Nov 01, 2011 2:21 pm | |
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600SX Admin
Posts : 2514 Join date : 2010-08-19 Age : 43 Location : Twin Lakes
| Subject: Re: Superlight S13 - No 56K! Tue Nov 01, 2011 4:18 pm | |
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s13.240sx Senior member
Posts : 1113 Join date : 2010-10-01 Age : 111 Location : Menomonee Falls
| Subject: Re: Superlight S13 - No 56K! Tue Nov 01, 2011 4:19 pm | |
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speed_demon Senior member
Posts : 450 Join date : 2011-07-21 Location : Green Bay
| Subject: Re: Superlight S13 - No 56K! Tue Nov 01, 2011 6:11 pm | |
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600SX Admin
Posts : 2514 Join date : 2010-08-19 Age : 43 Location : Twin Lakes
| Subject: Re: Superlight S13 - No 56K! Tue Nov 01, 2011 6:12 pm | |
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speed_demon Senior member
Posts : 450 Join date : 2011-07-21 Location : Green Bay
| Subject: Re: Superlight S13 - No 56K! Tue Nov 01, 2011 6:29 pm | |
| - 600SX wrote:
- 8K
Thankfully not yet. The aluminum 5.3 itself, after the Acc's on it sold cost me $266.96 out of pocket. Not including the LS1 manifold and other things of course. The total I have so far, with the car's cost itself, the 5.3, T56, etc, etc. Was $5200 Not including the sale of the old KA parts. I am somewhere in the high 4K region if I include sold parts.
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speed_demon Senior member
Posts : 450 Join date : 2011-07-21 Location : Green Bay
| Subject: Re: Superlight S13 - No 56K! Tue Nov 01, 2011 6:33 pm | |
| My uncle offered me a handsome price for it and I started laughing. Couldn't help it, he was offering me 4x what I had just paid for it. Maybe I'll sell it cheap on here once I go LS7.
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600SX Admin
Posts : 2514 Join date : 2010-08-19 Age : 43 Location : Twin Lakes
| Subject: Re: Superlight S13 - No 56K! Tue Nov 01, 2011 6:34 pm | |
| Sorry, deleted post on accident. A cheap 5.3 would be great for my buddy. | |
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speed_demon Senior member
Posts : 450 Join date : 2011-07-21 Location : Green Bay
| Subject: Re: Superlight S13 - No 56K! Thu Nov 03, 2011 4:58 pm | |
| LS3 clutch kit, T56 bellhousing to block bolts, PP to flywheel bolts, and the yukon 5.3 starter have all arrived. I am amazed at how light this starter is, and baffled at how stupidly heavy this pressure plate is. F body T56 with all the accessories is on it's way. The LS3 clutch disc itself is just shy of 5lbs, the flywheel is 25.5lbs, and the pressure plate is 25lbs of beefy but unnecessary steel. | |
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speed_demon Senior member
Posts : 450 Join date : 2011-07-21 Location : Green Bay
| Subject: Re: Superlight S13 - No 56K! Tue Nov 08, 2011 12:18 am | |
| New parts still needed to purchase.
Brakes. Hawk Performance HB521F-800 Pad - $87.09 Wilwood Disc Brakes 120-11133 4 Piston Caliper - $149.99 X2 Wilwood Disc Brakes 160-2894 RF Disc ring - $41.50 Wilwood Disc Brakes 160-2895 LF Disc ring - $41.50 Wilwood Disc Brakes 220-9199 SS lines - $59.99
Exhaust at this point. Probably 3'' tubing expanding to 3.5'' into a baffled muffler, then back down to 3''. Summit Racing SUM-G4749 - Summit RacingĀ® Standard Collector Gaskets - $2.95 Summit Racing SUM-G4761 - Summit RacingĀ® Collector Ring Kits - $6.95
Hptuners - $499.99, or a mail order tune, $99.99
AA Tach conversion unit $100
Front 02 sensors, $39.99 x2
Coolant surge tank - $50 Lines and hoses, $ 25
Spark plug boots $34.99
Wheels/tires. Enkei RPF1 17x9 +22 Front - $300 X2 17x9.5 +35 or 17x10 +30 Rear - $325 X2 255/40/17 Front $180 mounted X2 275/35/17 Rear $220 mounted X2
Suspension. Koni Z32 yellow rear shocks - $200 X2 Ground control spring setup - $399.99 Koni front 8610 inserts - $275 X2 Deviant front shock housing to clear 255's - $375 T3 Pillowball front mounts - $200 Tein pillow ball rear mounts - $175
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