Hi,
I've been seeing some posts about swaping exausts and taking things off to reduce weigt from your cars. So my question is this:

Do you take into consideration the weight distribuiton on your car when you plan out your wheight distribuition? I ask this because having a car with nearly perfect 50:50 wheight distribuition. Doesent it offset the suspension tunning to just take off weight from anyware without adressing the car's balance.

Also for those of you with coil over setups. Do you corner balance? You know that te whole point of coil over setups is to corner balance your car? not to drop it to the floor.

Do you take into consideration the weight distribuiton on your car when you plan out your wheight distribuition? I ask this because having a car with nearly perfect 50:50 wheight distribuition. Doesent it offset the suspension tunning to just take off weight from anyware without adressing the car's balance.

What 50:50 weight distribution? I don't recall (although I may be wrong) any of the marketing claiming a 50/50 split...only a "near perfect 50/50" distribution. The car actually has a 54F/46R split (according to what I've seen of my own car on he scales and what I've heard from others that have weighed). As for dropping weight with the exhaust, even if you lost 35 pounds (which is more than you lose) and all of it was on the rear end (which it wouldn't be), you're only changing the weight distribution by about 0.6%.

Regardless, the car is nicely balanced out of the box and it's easy to tune the balance to your liking through alignment and tire pressures. Start adding other parts (shocks, bars, spring, etc) and you give yourself more options and more avenues of further refinement. Of course, the more stuff you add, the easier it is to wind up a with a car that is ill handling and far from balanced.

you would want more weight on the front with a FR setup to transition the weight when taking off from a corner

If you want weight on the drive wheels when exiting a corner, it should be in the back of the car, not the front.

Having said that, I'm skeptical that you could feel the difference in handling balance from a 20 lb. reduction, but if you could, it would be trivial to dial it out through any of a number of suspension adjustments.

it would be more worth it for YOU to lose weight, the car will be faster and the nut behind the wheel will have longer life expectancy!

it would be more worth it for YOU to lose weight, the car will be faster and the nut behind the wheel will have longer life expectancy!
Nag! Now you and my wife have something in common!! :D

lol, I'm just trying to help! :)