[Ron61]

The lighter the car, the more power to weight ratio you have making it faster normally. However, the handling will be different and so will the safety factor if you drive it on the street much. A builder here built a body for a guy that was so thin that it cracked when he started putting the stress of hard turns and twists on it. But he wanted as light of a car as he could have. They also drilled 4" holes all along the frame to remove metal, so much so that i would have been afraid the frame would collapse after a few hard jolts of coming over a steep hill and the front wheels coming off the ground a little. I think he finally just junked the car and used the drive train to build one that was a little heavier and stronger.

Ron