Carbon parts for my 944 Turbo

[Jan K]

This is the first finished pieces for our project making 900kg. 951
The hood fender 3.3kg and 0.8kg.
All pieces are made of carbon fiber
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[BlueMaxMtl]

Looks good Jan. What's the typical weight savings on each individual part?:icon_thumright:

[.Lefteris.]

:superr:

[Jan K]

A year ago I started to build a 951 for racing with my friend Hákan.
As Hakan is an aeronautical engineer he are usual of weight saving on he's projects. .
The idea is to have a weight of 900 kg and 350cv to get that we are making an compleate carbon fiber bodywork.

The fact is:
The factory 951 weighs 1300kg and has 250cv which gives a result of 1300/250 = 5.2kg per hp
With 900kg and 350 hp you has= 900/350 that make 2.5 kg for each cv that is half the original power / weight .............
That's an power increase of 50% and with important improvement of handling and braking.
The 997 GT3 RSR has 2.5 to 2.8 kg/cv pending on version.

Here is a list of what is the weight of diferent items in an 951 ( In Kg)

Rear seat: 12 kg
Carpets and privacy front: 21 kg
Carpets and insulation Luggage: 23 kg
Jacks & Accessories: 3 kg
Interior stuff (roof, below the plate glove, glove box, visors, lights, trunk / hood, cable 5 Kg ...):
Speakers (4): 1 kg
Door panel: 1.7 kg
Spare wheel and tools: 15 kg
Light projector and a motor mechanism: 4 kg
Heating + panel: 4 kg
Air conditioning: 12 kg
Generator: 7,4 kg
Rear window: 25 kg
Windscreens: 12 kg
Front hood: 24 kg
Sunroof: 10 kg
Front Bumper: 14 kg
Bumper rear: 14 kg
Rear deck: 14kg
Front fenders: 2x 9kg
Rear fenders + wheel house: 2x 13kg
Doors 2x ?
Side window and mec: ?
Seats: 2x 25kg
Dash board and instuments: 10kg
Generator: 7.2kg
Fuel tank: 10kg
Compleate roof panel: ?

All this parts is been eliminated or sustitiued of carbon fiber

Thats make a save of more than 335kg or 735lbs and we have cutted of much more.
Then we have to weld in ower cromo safecage to reforze the car again and put in the Recaro buckets.

Saludos
Jan K

[Jan K]

We has uppdated ower web page with English text for the carbon fiber parts
For more info please visit rsr-sport.com