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Hey Junior, have you considered a 16 volt battery?

 

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Junior, what's your weight and horsepower? When calculating weight, do you include the weight of the driver and a full tank of gas?

 

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Good lord. Sounds like you're about 500 pounds lighter than stock. Based on your prior posts, I know that a lot of the modifications that you've done are non-starters for those of us who don't want to give up seats or functionality. Do you have any weight reduction recommendations that you consider low hanging fruit (either because the mod is cheap from a price/lb perspective or because it comes as a side effect of a different performance mod)?

Personally, I estimate that I've lost about 100 lbs: 26 for headers, 30 for the Magnaflow, 10 for the spare tire tub, about zero between the various gains and losses for the plentitude of mods in the engine bay, 5 per corner due to the Ground Control kit, wheels, and tires, 20 for the LS7 clutch and Fidanza flywheel--and then I borrowed back about 45 lbs for a good 10" subwoofer and multiple layers of acoustic cladding (damper+MLV) in the rear.

 

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Yes on the 401.
Mods are: Lingenfelter CAI, Kooks 1 3/4, No Cats, Magnaflow, and Tune

By the way, if you're interested in my TRuTorq L3 cam, you can probably eek out another 30 RWHP (still owe people footage of the throttle response--stay tuned). I'm planning on swapping my LS2 shortblock out for a 416 CID LS3 this winter. Will probably sell the shortblock with the original cam in it, and sell the L3 separately. I also have a Volant intake tube if you're still running the stocker.

I would love to replace the seats with something better, but they have to be leather and match the car. That puts me into the multi-thousand dollar range, unfortunately.

 

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Looking at the transmission hump there...how much sound insulation did you have to remove from that area? Was thinking about adding a little more there, and I might have almost exactly enough left.

 

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I've got no clue, whatever was there is still attached to the bottom of the carpet in a box. I think its just some extra padding around that area IIRC. I can take a look and measure...

No need to measure. I didn't explain myself correctly. A lot of the carpet in the car has a very dense foam backing (cheap MLV). I just wanted to know whether what you removed was merely carpet or foam backed carpet.

I'll take my remaining 6 square feet of Luxury Liner Pro and spot treat that area when I figure out what kind of material is located there. *writes self note to buy another sheet to treat the front doors*

I know that this is not what you would do, but I'm working hard to carefully mitigate noise without adding excessive weight and I'm working to counterbalance that with weight reduction mods. Next up is a Deka ETX20L battery, which is 26 pounds lighter than current 78N battery. 3795 pounds and falling!

 

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Can you provide any details on how you supported the splitter? There's not a whole lot of structure on that plastic bumper.

 

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We'll see how it holds up...

I hope it does. Supposedly those splitters see hundreds of pounds of force, which is going to be directed into the supporting structure. If you can't stand on it, I wouldn't drive with it.