Originally Posted by wstar

Is anyone really installing dry carbon replacements for all the major body panels? It would be insanely expensive (totally not worth it), and honest anything less would be silly from a weight drop point of view (with the "looks only" carbon bits you might save 0.4 lbs for thousands).

Much cheaper to leave the body alone and gut all the excess weight inside the car for racing. Or just leave it all alone and enjoy a nice street car :P

The Z's hp:weight ratio is perfect NA, IMHO, and scales well to a nice low-end track car if you do all the bolt-ons and the obvious weight-stripping. It's just enough to push the tires around and make a decent lap times, and not so much that it wants to fly out of control at the slightest throttle bump from a ripple in the road like some cars.

Would I take an extra 50whp for free? Sure, but it's fine where it is, too. If your primary goal is to accelerate harder, there are much better options than the Z. Try one of those little 80s mustang bodies with a blown LS1 in it. You can probably put the whole package together for cheaper than a stock Z and blow the doors off just about anything. I didn't buy the Z looking for that, or looking to compete with it :P