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Originally Posted by ProfessorDave
Seriously, I agree with you - the Z could lose some weight. Tough to do with all the safety equipment required these days. |
The Z really isn't that fat when you consider everything. The best way to make it thinner is to trash the material. I think Nissan should have made the car out of fiberglass and the Nismo with carbon-fiber bits (Fenders, etc.)
This would have allowed them to keep most everything the same, yet shaved a good bit of weight, eliminated door-ding potential mostly, etc. The only thing is crash-ratings, and I am not an automotive engineer so I don't know how changing from aluminum sheet to CF/glass would effect the need to add support beams that werent necessary before, if at all.