Weight reduction

[engled]

It's amazing how much weight you can take off of a Miata if your not overly concerned with brakes.






324 holes.

[Cholewa]

I would just not run rear brakes if I was going to swiss cheese them. And take off the body panels.

[engled]

I would just not run rear brakes if I was going to swiss cheese them. And take off the body panels.

Neither of which are legal mods in SP.

[slowautoxr]

So how long did it take to drill all them holes?

[engled]

So how long did it take to drill all them holes?

Almost four hours. We used a mill and rotatory table, CNC if we do it again.

[slowautoxr]

They look good.

Can you also remove material around the studs?

What about not having the perimeter round? Something like this:


The fronts are vented. The rears are not. Can you use a rear rotor on the front? Or maybe remove one of the surfaces and then machine the backside of the remaining one?

[engled]

All good ideas, the rears are much lighter but I don't know if they could take the heat. I really want to see how the hold up before I do anything else, I'm going to get a whole set as spares just in case.

[dsp_autocrosser]

Looks like a set I saw on a Neon I ran against a few years ago. His ended up cracking on the rear.

[bimmertech]

[Stewie Griffin voice] So....Uhhhh... Where's the trophy?[/Stewie Griffin voice]

That looks like a lot of work to come in second.

[J2870]

[c-evoVIII]

Holy crapola batman! There's serious business to be have this year at the alscca!

[aMaff]

so how much weight did you actually drop doing this?

[engled]

1.6 pounds each on the front and 1 pound each on the rear.

[aMaff]

Not a ton, but not bad for a semi-free mod

[TouringBubble]

These things failed yet? =)