Putting the new 2015 Mustang on a diet.

[panic]

I'm getting my new Mustang tomorrow and I have already planned a weight reduction plan:

Catback sport exhaust.
Rear seats delete.
Race front buckets.
A/C delete, compressor and ancillaries out of the way.
New lightweight all round brakes kit.
Back lexan window.
Alu driveshaft.

I guess I'd be around 200lbs.

For a second wave I'd go with doors gutting, front and read steel bars, front windshield and carbon boot...

In the past years I have already put on a diet my '96 Griffith 500...loosing about 100Lbs




...and a '77 C3 Vette, on this one I went the radical path getting rid of about 800lbs of useless crap...

Edited by panic on Monday 7th September 22:15

[chuntington101]

On one hand I want to say well done for paving the way forward with make the new mustang faster and better.

On the other I want to ask why chop into a brand new car? You could mod a s197 for a lot less and the part are probably already out there.

Putting the second point to one side (this is PH after all) sounds like a great project. Carbon body work should help save some weight. Light weight lithium ion battery would save a fair bit. Removing the sound deadening will also safe a lot. Long tube headers and cat removal should save a few lbs. Sound system could also be stripped out along with the associated wiring.

Keep up updated on what you do.

Also what did you do to the weight to take so much out of it?

[LuS1fer]

Sadly, I am unconvinced you need to.
The S197 is about 1600kgs standard but, in reality, won't be much, if any faster than the S550.
Same with 1800kg VXR8s and the like, weight seems to have little impact on overall performance when you have a V8. Might improve the braking.