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Weight reduction
I have been looking into weight reduction for my car and found this:
http://aluminumintransportation.org/...th%20cover.pdf
It starts to get very interesting once you get past the first 24 or so pages of filler.
It has lots of good info I think.
Top gear gave me the idea when they gutted an old jag and removed 400lb and trimmed 1.2 seconds off the "not to 60"mph time and 5 seconds off the "not to 100"mph times. Then I figured I would look into it for fuel economy reasons too.
I am not looking for mods that kill drive ability. Such as when I pulled the back carpet with pad out of my car to clean and store it. After a week the added road noise lead me to put the carpet and pad back with a little added sound deading material.
The EPA had there own numbers which I figured were overly optimistic.
I am sure every one has herd the one about 100lb meaning the difference between 1mpg. I always found that one hard to believe. In my truck it took more like 500lb to make a 1mpg difference.
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1984 chevy suburban, custom made 6.5L diesel turbocharged with a Garrett T76 and Holset HE351VE, 22:1 compression 13psi of intercooled boost.
1989 firebird mostly stock. Aside from the 6-speed manual trans, corvette gen 5 front brakes, 1LE drive shaft, 4th Gen disc brake fbody rear end.
2011 leaf SL, white, portable 240v CHAdeMO, trailer hitch, new batt as of 2014.
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