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Originally Posted by Christ
it's actually quite a bit of weight, when you're dealing with unsprung weight.
Each pound off a wheel, or the flywheel, or the crank, or drive shafts, axles, hubs, etc, equals 7 lbs of equivalent weight loss of the rest of the vehicle.
Each 100 lbs lost of "basic" weight = .10 faster 1/4 mile times, on average.
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So 8 lbs off your rim weight = 56 lbs of equivalent basic weight
-.05 faster 1/4 mile time
Dont you wish there was a formula for mpg too