They are Nostalgia Muscle weather we like em or not no doubt and although not MY first choice, gotta love you guys out there doin it and keeping it alive on the STREETS where it ALL started............

and the fact is, that when those supposedly ugly ducklings start to take the wins like they did back in the day, they start to look rather handsome.
A winning car sheds its irregularities and misgivings rather fast when it shows wins. Just take a good long look at Shawanda.

Totally agree...........

Speaking of ways to lighten your car, I have found the perfect recipe. Go find an Indiana or other rust belt car with leaves pilled all around it, buy it and drag it home, check sub-frames and floor the more rust you find here the better... the pounds will just fall off. Also when you jack it up to set it on jack-stands if it "Crushes" the frame-rails and pushes them flat you have a winner....

Yeah I just bought a 72 Dart to part that is literally that rusty, I considering keeping the main tub to chassis one day and I'm pretty sure it is too rusty to even do that. So it will donate its parts to save the lives of other Darts.

Yup people have asked me if mine is a real lightweight. I always say; "Sure is, it has the Detroit city acid dip"
Doug

You Detroit guys are very clever and sneaky out there. Well rehearsed over the decades. The factories are even more sneakier.

Doug, If Hemi-itis and Special K come with me this Summer to the (D), we're coming armed with metal gauge micrometer tools and magnets to test on your car. LOL.

Bring em on
Doug

"and the thick plottens......." [benny parsons, or ned jarret in their announcing days, but i forget which said this]

Milidon oil pump weight loss continued. In my last reply I showed how a Milidon pump body was 1LB 12.7 OZ lighter than the stock oil pump. Today I received my Titanium hardware and can post the rest of the story! In my first picture I show a stock pump weighing in at 7LBS 8.1 OUNCES. In my second picture I show the old hardware weighing in at 7.9 OUNCES!
In my third picture is the new Titanium hardware weighing in at 4.6 OUNCES! The last picture shows the Milidon pump body with the Milidon pump cover and Titanium hardware weighing in at 4LBS 13.9 OUNCES!!
The total weight loss for this project is 2LBS 10.2 OUNCES way up front and off the nose of the car!
In review the pump body is the biggest bang for the buck at 1LB 12.7 OZ
Next is the pump cover at 10.2 OUNCES ( most expensive piece! )
Last is the hardware at 3.3 OUNCES
I am going to replace the external fitting on the Milidon pump cover with a plug as I'm going to run the stock internal pickup. The plug should shave another ounce off!
Before you order expensive hardware the Milidon pump cover is thicker than the stock cover by 1/2"! So wait till you get it and measure for the new hardware. On to the next idea?
MJ

Where did you get the bolts?

Nice aren't they!
I like the tapered heads for even more weight savings.
Look up WHITEBREAD RACING on the web and you won't believe all the hardware he has in Titanium!
MJ

Doesn't take that much to retrieve me from the bowels of lost and found on this forum once there is a new post. LOL.

I only wish when I was having my engine done that I knew that those billet aluminum Milodon pump bodies and covers could be used while utilizing the stock internal pick up system and plugging the external canal with a plug.

I at one time was seriously looking at a NOS A990-race Hemi aluminum pump assembly for service, but upon inspection, I felt that it would not withstand the rigors of street/strip service being that the bodies looked too frail and I was thinking that the internal rotors would eventually eat away at the porous alloy. Anyways, here we are in modern times with modern material upgrades and dreams are achievable.

Good findings MJ.
We must have been separated at birth and when they put us both on the scales, both sides evened out. LOL.

Hell I had to buy a new pump for external oiling anyway so that is the way that I went. A few pounds here a few pounds there add up.

Dam you guys are bad for my habit

Bad habit????
I go to therapy every day after reading all of this. LOL

I was in conversation last night with some GS Buick cats and it got HEAVY.
I think those guys have the heaviest Wedge engines in the market.

I bought a 0 to 86 pound Accuteck brand Digital Postal Scale on ebay for $19.95, shipping included. Runs on batteries or AC plug in adapter. Batteries were even included. Mine is black, but other colors are available if you really give a ..... It's powered by three AAA batteries, so it's easy to carry over to where you need it instead of having to drag heavy things to it. This new one puts the old one I bought at the post office to shame, and it weighs heavier things than my old postal scales do. Win-win.

It's an awesome sickness we all share and on the subject of light = might, let's not forget about a bit of "Aero" stuff that's both light AND functional like ft. chin spoilers like the one I scored off of a Dodge truck.............It did help a bit as Shiloh discovered as well..........

Speaking on light aero tricks, a guy I knew who always tested at the track by day in order to run for the buck$ at night, used to duct tape all his window trim and block off the grill as well.
I've studied tricks the STOCK car (NASCAR) crowd have applied through out the years, but never took time to apply them myself. You'd be surprised at what Fireball Roberts and the Lee's have done.
Some cars are just more slippery compared to others. Mine is a Shoebox.

I aero'd the hell out of mine. So many tricks I did wile thinking aero slippery 😄

I think it's helped both stability and MPH.
Running 151 MPH in the 1/8

At a 151 on the 8th, I'd want a reverse aero, a parachute other than trying to get more slippery. LOL.
That's moving the mail on either side of the 8th or 1/4.