[Torbjorn968]

In the M 3 E 36 race car I drive in endurance racing we have light 12 V heaters for damp conditions. Yesterday this was left on after me taking over the car when skies cleared. No one told me where the button was. Very warm and cosy in the cockpit I tell you....

How much do you think can be saved by removing the heating in the car?

And what can be saved by entirely removing the dashboard and replace by necessities?

//TL

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in which car?

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[Torbjorn968]

A 944 with a 968 engine. Currently 1030 kgs so rather light already.

/TL

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ah - well then, there is about 80lbs if you delete the entire dash, and all of its junk behind it - then you get to make a new dash with your own gauges, and pick up about 15 of that back

the heater core is only a couple of lbs, and removing it can actually make the car run hotter, due to the reduction in that amount of core and coolant capacity (it is a baby radiator after all)

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[Johannvb]

There is a company here in the Netherlands that sell a Carbon Fibre dash. Here's a link. It's Dutch, but you can google translate it [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/wink.gif[/img]

http://www.porscheperformance.nl/product.p...33&model=11

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