I'm curious how much weight is actually added

People are saying the APS TT kit weighs 150 lbs or so boxed up with 25 lbs or so being the packaging. The stock headers weigh probably like 25 lbs or so, so is it safe to say the APS kit would add 100 lbs to the front of the car?

Now how much does the Vortech kit weight? if you were to add that?

 

Thats what I thought. 75-100lbs.

 

I weighed my 350z last year... with the 19" volks (Actually i had my 18s with DRs on the back, which are a little lighter), stoptech 14" BBK, full interior everything, AC still installed (took it out this year for better airflow), greddy turbo kit, test pipes (lot lighter then stock cats), and the car weighed 3350lb.

we arent so much lighter then supras after all, not by the time we have all the **** we need to go fast. APS kit probably another 20-25lb over the greddy kit since it has much heavier IC, retains crash beam, and all stainless piping.

 

Why does your car weigh so much. I have a Touring. It weighed 3180 w/ half a tank or 3/4 tank can't remember. I stepped on the scale and it got my weight right. Its the scale trucks use to know how loaded they are so they have to be accurate and we verifyed this with other cars. Could it be possible the scale you used is off. Or is the scale im using flawed.

 

so would a single turbo and supercharger add about the same weight to the car? - like 75 lbs?

 

Vortech...full kit....80lb's

 

your car weight shouldnt change all that much from stock. Just do other weight loss mods to balance it out. Dry cell battery mod 25lbs, wheels 7lbs each, exhaust 10-20lbs, flywheel, There is 70-80lbs right there and thats not even being aggressive about weight loss.

 

i've already done most weight loss mods...

 

My Turbonetics ST. 105lbs. Per FedEx. But that includes a case of motor oil.

 

ive only done AC as weight loss (which doesnt matter since back then I sitll had it in)... i dont have any stereo or anything... just a head unit and bolt in speaker upgrades... no subs or anything, and its the track edition so it doesnt have any factory woofers... I did have the spare tire and all that stuff gone to since it would never fit over my brakes anyway.

I cant really think of any reason my Z should be heavier then any other TT with basic upgrades. Maybe the scale I was on was inaccurate? no idea... i was on some beat up looking scale at a race track... but it seemed accurate cause the weight of the car with or without me in it was accurate to my weight... wel it went in increments of 20lb, so accurate enough. no idea.

 

just noticed on forged internals that the APS TT kit is 150 lbs! damn, that's getting pretty heavy. How heavy are other TT kits?

 

That's about a 4.5% in weight increase versus a conservative 60% increase in power - which is still a good tradeoff

What it does to the balance of the car which is probably why the question was asked is much more difficult to quantify.

 

You won't notice it with the extra power you get. Trust me on this one.

 

I think he's more concerned with weight distribution and handling on a track more than overall weight of the car.

 

The APS TT kit added 75lbs to my car. Before the turbo install it was 3250 (without me in it), after the install on the same scale it was 3325.

75 pounds is basically nil on a 3000+lb car. Besides..if you're really worried about balance, you could move the battery to the back ~30lbs and cut the difference nearly in half.

 

Damn thats light for a TT kit. I dont know exactly how much all the pieces for the Turbonetics kit weigh, but the shipping weight said 105 lbs, but they are always a little off. Do you remember how much your shippping weight was?

 

I don't remember the shipping weight, but you have to remember that you remove stuff when you add a turbo kit...like the exhaust manifolds, stock intake system, oil pan, and lots of plastic pieces, coolant overflow tank, fuel pump. All little stuff, but it adds up.

 

Also if you swap the OEM CATs for TPs (most do) it's quite a bit. I didn't weigh them but the OEM CATs are pretty damn beefy.

 

There's a lot of packaging in the turbonetics box. Also, you have 6 quarts of motor oil. That stuff isn't light... I'm thinking the Turbonetics ST would add less than the APS TT for sure...