Ok guys what can we do for some weight reductions? I know the obvious. Lose the stock rims, battery, spare tire. Anything else And don't say the interior, I know that is like 2-300 lbs, but I don't want to do away with my leather seats. Any other trick stuff. Our car is too heavy, 1000lbs more than a M3, granted that is a different class of cars all together. Too bad we're not in Japan. I've seen carbon fiber trunk lids, that a puny Japanese kid could lift w/one hand as well as an exhaust pipe w/muffler that you could lift with one hand as well. Oh well..

 

What is with honda/acura? They make heavy cars. I guess they figure they will just out engine everyone. But the preludes weighed like 4200lbs which if you you comper it with say a 240SX , a close competitor(which looks a lot bigger) it only weighs 2900lbs. I guess the NSX is the only lightweight car they have decided to build and gee its only $90,000. But seriously imagine our car at 3600 lbs, we would have so much better handling and not to mention accel. probably 5.9-6.1 0-60 range stock.

 

The CL/TL does weigh about 3500-3600.

 

Try 4300lbs

 

4365 to be exact, not counting 1-200lbs driver weight. We're looking at 4500+lbs. And that probably is not even with a full tank of gas.

 

Not according to everything I've read, including the Acura web site. And I SERIOUSLY doubt the prelude weighs 4200 lbs. Maybe 3200-3400.

 

CL-P 3470
CL-P + navi 3485
CL-S 3510
CL-S + navi 3525

From the acura web site.

 

Where are you getting these numbers form??? Weight as given by Acura is 3510 without nav and 3525 with.

 

Go open your driver side door and find out genius and I've look in my friends 93 prelude it is 4100+lbs.

 

dude where do you get those numbers...are those kilograms???lol...the cl-S 3510 no driver...if your talking about on the door siill thats probably max load .5 adults

 

maybe honda should follow the industry and stop making there sub frames out of lead...

 

A 1993 Honda Prelude weighs 2865lbs.

 

I am talking about on the door sill. Are you sure that is with 5 adults, Max weight?

 

Better have your shit together before you call someone names, smartass. 4365 lbs on the CL-S is the GVWR. Gross vehicle weight rating. The maximum weight of the car, cargo, passengers, and fuel. Sort of like, max takeoff weight for a plane. The CAR doesn't weigh 4365 by itself.

 

Maybe I'am talking about max load, my apologies...
But explain this M3 curb weight 3415 right? 0-60 somewhere around 5.0. Our car 3600lbs 0-60 6.5? How does this work out?

 

Sorry Mdaniel my mistake.

 

I believe the current M3 has around 340hp, 6 speed manual, and very short gears. Makes all the difference.

 

Thank you for setting me straight, but still our car is heavy, any ideas on how to solve this? what is the top speed on the M3 anyone know?

 

There is that nice crash protection ... there is always going to be a trade-off between buyers craving safety over raw performance.

Perhaps one more letter request CL-RL (Racing/lightened)

 

Don't forget that loss of weight on rotating object (tires, wheels and brake rotors for example) will help far more than just losing static weight. (Yeah, old news at this point)...

 

They should make like a CL type-R or something in the 50,000 range. Something to compete w/ the vettes, M3's, Cobras,S4, Boxster type-s. Yes i know i did put the boxster in there too its close in price.

 

Yeah i've seen that debate static vs rotational. But back to the original question any other weight loss tricks?

 

Why is it I say something wrong everyone chimes in, but ask a question and no one speaks. Thank you EricL for your help with the question.

 

may be because this subject has been beaten to death before.

we have this cool feature called search. its on the upper right hand corner. after you click on search just type in a keay word like weight reduction or ligher or static weight...

 

its limited to 155mph.