best way to lose weight? from my 86

[RobertoX]

I looked at some FRP fenders the other day, couldn't have been much more than a couple of kilos each, much lighter than the standard ones!

But before you start spending money, strip everything you don't need out and see how it feels.
Then start to replace stuff with lighter replacements.

Also in regards to the weight of carbon and glass, a propperly designed and layed up carbon part will be lighter than a glass one everytime. If carbon bonets are weighing the same as glass ones then something is seriously wrong and you are just paying for the wank factor of it being carbon...

[Sam-Q]

the metal skin shouldn't weigh much and a decent fiberglass bonnet shouldn't need pins either, there's no way I would run them. In regard to legallities, keep the stock bonnet under your house or something incase you need it for an inpection otherwise paint the stock one body colour. What they can't see won't bother them right?

[RobertoX]

I've lifted several stock guards before and these ones were light! When I picked them up I was actually very surprised. I'll try to get the name and a weight.
The guy who had them was getting them in for a customer, they were also ultra cheap... (~15000yen) Basically a very light weight guard with a mild flare on the wheel arch for a bit more wheel clearance (similar to what you can get from someone skilled with a big hammer and some high fill).

[4000GT]

I have fibreglass guards, bonnet, and hatch. The front guards saves literally a couple of grams.

[RobertoX]

I asked the bloke who had the guards and he showed me this link:


He didn't know how much they weigh and the site doesn't list a weight but they were light as (possibly up to half the weight). The front guards don't weigh that much anyway but the more weight that you can get out of the front of the car the better. (better for the polar moment of inertia (yaw axis) of the vehicle)
The bloke who showed me these has built lots of AE86 track cars (he runs a workshop specialising in AE86s) and he uses these guards.

They're also 20mm wider too.