Lightest Cayman S

[westwood35]

The car has been completed for this season, with further work scheduled for next winter. Numbers are on the car because it is out this weekend!!

[mrdemon]

nice what did it weigh in at.

[westwood35]

1230 Kilos at the moment, but we will take another 100-120 kilos over the winter.

[Stelongy]

Lightweight tailgate available on eBay too item no. 221354902336

[westwood35]

They are the company that did all the work on the car, SVP Droitwich. With lightweight doors, wings, boot and plastic windows it was going to blow this years budget!!!! Wiring loom is the next big project, along with 3.7 litre engine.

[Trev450]

westwood35 said:

Numbers are on the car because it is out this weekend!!

What type of events do you do?

[westwood35]

Hillclimb and sprints. Mainly the Midland hills and the odd circuit sprint. Two day meeting at Prescott Hillclimb this weekend.

[HokumPokum]

very nice. love to have one/do one.

[Trev450]

westwood35 said:

Hillclimb and sprints. Mainly the Midland hills and the odd circuit sprint. Two day meeting at Prescott Hillclimb this weekend.

Very nice and a rare sight on the hills. It must be quite competitive given what you've done with it. I've taken my CS on track a couple of time and love the balance of the car. I also compete in sprints and hillclimbs but in an Evo, mainly in the SW championship.

[Cayman48]

westwood35 said:

1230 Kilos at the moment, but we will take another 100-120 kilos over the winter.

Nice !
You already have plastic Windows and some light body panels, where do you think you can get 100/120kg less. ?

Edited by Cayman48 on Saturday 14th June 15:57

[westwood35]

We haven't put lighter panels or removed the glass yet. Wanted the electric windows for this year as it is still road registered. Panels and glass will be done over the winter, as well as lightweight loom.

[grantsfo]

Any updates to this build? I'm very interested to see what people are doing with this car to get weight out and keep street legal.

I built a 900 kg 986 Boxster race car several years ago but working on a street legal Cayman S now. I'd love to get car to 1100 kg and keep all road going equipment. i have my 987.2 Cayman S down to 1300 kg so far.

[westwood35]

We took another 100 kilos out of the car over the winter, giving us 1130 less driver. Not sure how you would get to that weight and keep all road going parts!! May be possible with new leightweight rear quarters, and roof. But everything is quite heavy on these cars.

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[grantsfo]

Thanks for the update! Looks great! One thing I did with 986 Boxster was to bead blast tub and remove all seam sealer . Amazingly enough there was about 20 kg of undercoat and sealer.removed in that process. Haven't looked closely on Cayman to see if it has similar potential.

I have made fairly big impact this week on weight. Replaced stock suspension with JRZ coilovers, replaced stock flywheel with Lightweight Flywheel, replaced stock seats with Recaro SPG Profi , installed fab speed headers,and lightweight muffler, removed all stock induction and replaced with fab speed intake, IPD plenum and gt3 throttle body, lightweight Enkei NT03 wheels, Momo steering wheel, lightweight odyssey pc 925 battery, removed all interior behind seats including headliner, fiberglass hatch with lexan window. Pulled unused wiring out of rear of car., removed OEM bumper bars and replaced with small chromoly bars, removed all rear heat shielding , Don't have updated weight yet.

Next will be AC delete , gt3 electric power steering, radio delete,

I do have fiberglass doors and headlight covers I can bolt on for hillclimbs,

I'm looking at bigger motor or forced induction as this is a Hillclimb car too. I run Hillclimb series in California and Oregon in the US.

Edited by grantsfo on Thursday 7th July 18:03

Edited by grantsfo on Thursday 7th July 18:08

[grantsfo]

Curious how did you do door panels? Do you have any photos of them? I wanted to do Rs style door panels

Edited by grantsfo on Thursday 7th July 18:01

[grantsfo]

[grantsfo]

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[westwood35]

grantsfo said:

Curious how did you do door panels? Do you have any photos of them? I wanted to do Rs style door panels

Edited by grantsfo on Thursday 7th July 18:01

I have aluminium doors, and made 1.00mm thick door cards and then had them flocked. Inner door handles off a 1980's VW Bus!!!

The car is away at the race shop as I am not racing it for a month. When it gets back I'll take some photos of the interior.

[grantsfo]