Originally Posted by outlaw256
but in reality if you drilled every bolt and axle and anything else you can on a car you aint gonna come up with a pound of metal.
Not to pick on you, but taking weight off is like adding horsepower. If you're Drag racing, accelerating mass is the name of the game. Reduce mass, accelerate easier. In the case of lighter axle components, you want to decrease "unsprung weight" so that the suspension will work easier and more predictably . .
The NASCAR guys spend hundreds of thousands of dollars looking for a quarter of a horsepower. They also spend the same amounts reducing the total weight so that they may (as was said previously) add weight where it will work for them . . A lot of that also goes for the serious drag racers . .