How to lightweight our solara?

by **Yanks0114** » Tue Mar 04, 2003 5:01 pm

If you are really looking to save weight, only fill up 1/2 way on the tank. That'll save like 50 pounds. The seats really do not weight that much. There really isn't much to gut on the Solara while still keeping it practical

by **Flipside909** » Tue Mar 04, 2003 5:12 pm

CrazyCraig wrote:I found that I could lighten up my Solara by about 175lbs. simply by getting out of it

LOL but very true!

by **ChiTownSolara** » Tue Mar 04, 2003 8:18 pm

ya, when my car has about a quarter tank left, i can actually feel that it is a little bit faster on acceleration. think about it, 18.5 gallon gas tank. each gallon of gas weighs about 8 pounds, i think. that means when your tank is full, its an extra 150 pounds of weight, that is pretty significant when you start talking about tenths in the quarter mile and 0-60!! so if u take your spare out and run a quarter tank, thats probably almost 200 pounds. actually when it warms up, i think i am gonna take my car to the track with a full tank and the spare to see what i am running. then i am gonna go back a few days later with under a quarter tank and no spare and see what i am running just to test my theory.

by **NASTY** » Tue Mar 04, 2003 8:20 pm

ChiTownSolara wrote:ya, when my car has about a quarter tank left, i can actually feel that it is a little bit faster on acceleration. think about it, 18.5 gallon gas tank. each gallon of gas weighs about 8 pounds, i think.

its definitely not that much, i remember a full tank is somewhere around 100 punds. ill check next time im at work.

by **Yanks0114** » Tue Mar 04, 2003 8:24 pm

NASTY wrote:
ChiTownSolara wrote:ya, when my car has about a quarter tank left, i can actually feel that it is a little bit faster on acceleration. think about it, 18.5 gallon gas tank. each gallon of gas weighs about 8 pounds, i think.

its definitely not that much, i remember a full tank is somewhere around 100 punds. ill check next time im at work.

100 pounds is about right. Gas is less dense(therefore it weighs less) than water. Water is around 7-8 pounds per gallon.

by **dbanker** » Tue Mar 04, 2003 10:40 pm

1 gallon of water = 8.34 lbs
1 gallon of gasoline = 5.6 lbs

by **20SoLaRa02** » Tue Mar 04, 2003 11:43 pm

can u guys honestly feel a difference when ur car is empty on gas or full?....honestly when i drive my car seems to perform better when i have a full tank. By theory of course it should perform better on an empty tank but to me it seems opposite. I think its probalbly jus all in my head!!!

by **Missay** » Wed Mar 05, 2003 12:12 am

20SoLaRa02 wrote:can u guys honestly feel a difference when ur car is empty on gas or full?....honestly when i drive my car seems to perform better when i have a full tank. By theory of course it should perform better on an empty tank but to me it seems opposite. I think its probalbly jus all in my head!!!

maybe it's in my head too..but i sorta agree w/ that...it seems to have more "go" when there's gas..where it "putt, putts" along when it's next to empty.

ayi!! guys!! no spare!!! ouch!! you already know what i'm gonna say!!! :wink:

by **Peter** » Wed Mar 05, 2003 12:51 am

i agree, but thats cuz i always go till its almost empty and feel like its gonna stop running on me any minute. i think if i filled it up 1/4 though, i'd still feel a lot better mentally than full. that way i dont feel liek putt putt, and dont feel like ugh ugh draggin...

by **NASTY** » Wed Mar 26, 2003 4:39 pm

old topic, but whatever, someone was asking about how much gas weighs...

these are Shell's figures:
bronze gas is 0.7286 kg/L, works out to 112.2 lbs. for a full tank
gold gas is 0.7549 g/L, works out to 116.3 lbs. for a full tank

(and you thought you were getting better performance with the better gas when really you're carrying around four extra pounds!)

by **LifeguardSLE V6** » Wed Mar 26, 2003 8:49 pm

This is just my understanding on the gas, but with the tank running low, the engine starts to suck in more vapors and less gas. This not only can over time hurt the engine, but also kinda puts a damper on acceleration. Therefore at a full tank you should be getting more acceleration, as the engine is pulling in pure fuel. That's just my $.02

by **CrazyCraig** » Wed Mar 26, 2003 10:00 pm

That is an old wives tale. A pump cannot move vapors efficiently without cavitating. Vapors in the fuel lines will cause "vapour lock", causing your car to stall out.

by **Missay** » Fri Mar 28, 2003 3:28 pm

CrazyCraig wrote: Vapors in the fuel lines will cause "vapour lock", causing your car to stall out.

I always thought that vapor lock only happened after the vehicle had been stopped for a short amount of time?

motorhomes w/ F460 engines are notrious for vapor lock :roll:

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