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Originally Posted by Raptor13x
You can, however, pull of probably close to 100lbs of stuff that doesn't really harm daily driveability. Hell, cleaning out your trunk will save an average driver 40lbs.
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You can lose more than 100 lbs, if you're willing to spend some dough. And 100 lbs is enough to make a measurable difference in both acceleration and fuel economy. The online 0-60 calculator
0-60 mph Calculator - 060calculator.com (ok, I know that's a fantasy) says a 2380lb car with 130 hp (a stock AW11 is in that ballpark) should go 0-60 in 7.398. Drop 100 lbs and it's 7.164. 0.23 seconds on a 0-60 is significant, if weight stayed the same you'd need to add 5.7 hp to get the same gain. At the same time, reducing weight by 100 lbs should improve fuel economy by about 2%. Now, I'm not about to go spend $5,000 to reduce the weight of my daily driver, but I will consider weight as a factor when I replace my muffler.