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Re: Real world weight loss program and it` cost..........
[Re: Sport440]
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11/24/13 11:42 PM
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Don't scare me, I might forget what I tried to forget.LOL.
Serious, some scales are happy and some are not. Some are just off because of weather or the driver simply forgot to take out the spare and tools.
The very last time that I weighed my car at the track I forgot to take out the tools, spare, and it had a full tank of gas to the brim. It was just before I was leaving to go home. I'll get the numbers to you'll soon enough, just when I get to some good scales and when I go see my notes since I've been too busy to play with the thing other than writing on this board. But don't be fooled, these cars are heavy in that they have a thousand little places that have not been explored yet to really remove those last crucial pounds.
Just because 200-300-400-500 pounds are removed doesn't make the car light as in true lightweight, unless it's middle lightweight to start with.
Case in point, if one of those C-bodies weighs 4500 pounds and you remove 500-600 pounds, you still have a 3900 or so pound behemoth to contend with.
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Re: Real world weight loss program and it` cost..........
[Re: fullmetaljacket]
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11/25/13 12:40 AM
11/25/13 12:40 AM
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Sport440
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Don't scare me, I might forget what I tried to forget.LOL.
Serious, some scales are happy and some are not. Some are just off because of weather or the driver simply forgot to take out the spare and tools.
The very last time that I weighed my car at the track I forgot to take out the tools, spare, and it had a full tank of gas to the brim. It was just before I was leaving to go home. I'll get the numbers to you'll soon enough, just when I get to some good scales and when I go see my notes since I've been too busy to play with the thing other than writing on this board. But don't be fooled, these cars are heavy in that they have a thousand little places that have not been explored yet to really remove those last crucial pounds.
Just because 200-300-400-500 pounds are removed doesn't make the car light as in true lightweight, unless it's middle lightweight to start with.
Case in point, if one of those C-bodies weighs 4500 pounds and you remove 500-600 pounds, you still have a 3900 or so pound behemoth to contend with.
No, No,
Im not asking for your current weight. No need to go to any scales 
What was the approximate Base weight when you weighed it Two times about a year ago or so. No notes needed. Yes your car is heavy stock
But where abouts were you when you weighed it those Two times. Okay one time it was heavy with tools and a Full tank of gas. Thats a start, And the second time???????????????
Throw us a number! Come on! You stated you weighed it on two ocasions. Come on FMJ!
Do you need me to bring that post up again for you??? 
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Re: Real world weight loss program and it` cost..........
[Re: Sport440]
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11/25/13 01:05 AM
11/25/13 01:05 AM
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State of confusion
Thumperdart
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Don't scare me, I might forget what I tried to forget.LOL.
Serious, some scales are happy and some are not. Some are just off because of weather or the driver simply forgot to take out the spare and tools.
The very last time that I weighed my car at the track I forgot to take out the tools, spare, and it had a full tank of gas to the brim. It was just before I was leaving to go home. I'll get the numbers to you'll soon enough, just when I get to some good scales and when I go see my notes since I've been too busy to play with the thing other than writing on this board. But don't be fooled, these cars are heavy in that they have a thousand little places that have not been explored yet to really remove those last crucial pounds.
Just because 200-300-400-500 pounds are removed doesn't make the car light as in true lightweight, unless it's middle lightweight to start with.
Case in point, if one of those C-bodies weighs 4500 pounds and you remove 500-600 pounds, you still have a 3900 or so pound behemoth to contend with.
No, No,
Im not asking for your current weight. No need to go to any scales
What was the approximate Base weight when you weighed it Two times about a year ago or so. No notes needed. Yes your car is heavy stock
But where abouts were you when you weighed it those Two times. Okay one time it was heavy with tools and a Full tank of gas. Thats a start, And the second time???????????????
Throw us a number! Come on! You stated you weighed it on two ocasions. Come on FMJ!
Do you need me to bring that post up again for you???
Me wants to know also............  
72 Dart 470 n/a BB stroker street car `THUMPER`...Check me out on FB Dominic Thumper for videos and lots of carb pics......760-900-3895.....
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Re: Real world weight loss program and it` cost..........
[Re: Crizila]
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11/25/13 01:34 AM
11/25/13 01:34 AM
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No weight loss on mine, total cruiser built for comfort and style.
Me too.
Fastest living room couch in the world, eh? 
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Re: Real world weight loss program and it` cost..........
[Re: Thumperdart]
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11/25/13 02:38 AM
11/25/13 02:38 AM
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Canton, Ohio
Sport440
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Don't scare me, I might forget what I tried to forget.LOL.
Serious, some scales are happy and some are not. Some are just off because of weather or the driver simply forgot to take out the spare and tools.
The very last time that I weighed my car at the track I forgot to take out the tools, spare, and it had a full tank of gas to the brim. It was just before I was leaving to go home. I'll get the numbers to you'll soon enough, just when I get to some good scales and when I go see my notes since I've been too busy to play with the thing other than writing on this board. But don't be fooled, these cars are heavy in that they have a thousand little places that have not been explored yet to really remove those last crucial pounds.
Just because 200-300-400-500 pounds are removed doesn't make the car light as in true lightweight, unless it's middle lightweight to start with.
Case in point, if one of those C-bodies weighs 4500 pounds and you remove 500-600 pounds, you still have a 3900 or so pound behemoth to contend with.
No, No,
Im not asking for your current weight. No need to go to any scales
What was the approximate Base weight when you weighed it Two times about a year ago or so. No notes needed. Yes your car is heavy stock
But where abouts were you when you weighed it those Two times. Okay one time it was heavy with tools and a Full tank of gas. Thats a start, And the second time???????????????
Throw us a number! Come on! You stated you weighed it on two ocasions. Come on FMJ!
Do you need me to bring that post up again for you???
Me wants to know also............
FMJ,
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Re: Real world weight loss program and it` cost..........
[Re: fullmetaljacket]
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11/27/13 09:57 AM
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Anybody have real world numbers on going from a stock length a-body 8 3/4 w/spool, to a aluminum centered, aluminum spool, lightened ring gear, gun drilled axles?
Work In Progress- 71' Duster F.A.S.T.- 10.36@130 Smallblock Record Holder.
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Re: Real world weight loss program and it` cost..........
[Re: fullmetaljacket]
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11/28/13 01:12 AM
11/28/13 01:12 AM
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Canton, Ohio
Sport440
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2/11/2013 To make this interesting and not seem like an @$&hole, lets just say it's lighter than it was bone stock at 3670 Lbs.
Lets make this fun, this is an all metal B-body street car.
Pick a number.
Later, "I'll mention what the car truly weighed last Summer with me, a rollbar and a full tank of gas".
Its ALOT "Later", 
"I'll mention this,
3670# bone stock is lighter then I thought your car would start out at.
Thats a Base.
Pick a number,  Last Summer "2012" maybe 3400#, after all your latest mods, this year "2013", 3250#
After tomorrow, Thanksgiving, maybe more, Race ready  
Last edited by Sport440; 11/28/13 02:33 AM.
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Re: Real world weight loss program and it` cost..........
[Re: Sport440]
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11/28/13 08:10 PM
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fullmetaljacket
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Yeap, A lot later indeed, a lot later in the night that is was. While most of you were asleep I was typing the results of the Thumperdart submission turned into Thumperdart commission. LOL
I'm exhausted from a long day of meetings, thanksgivings and such, so bare with me.
Okay, from what I remember in the back lots of my mind, it was a bright and sunny day when I picked up my small block powered, manual drum brake, Power steering, AM radio, heater employed 2 door post sedan from a Brooklyn school teacher. I glimpsed down at my new registration and naively over joyed at the numbers; 3180 Lbs curb weight as it was sprung from the nest over at Lynch Rd. In hind site and said by Public Enemy, "Don't believe the type" LOL.
Almost immediately a year after and still believing the "Type" on the regi, a modest diet plan goes into affect and a first trip to the scales at the track shortly thereafter read: 3049 Lbs with out me in the seat and factoring in a half a tank of gas more or less.
Hard to believe but Wow, right direction. The "Type" must really be really, or so I thought.
A year later, I install my CM roll bar and apply a surgical knife with a more ambitious diet in place, half a tank of gas and with out me in the seat and head over to a local certified truck scale;
3370 Lbs,
WHAT!!!!! How could this be?
I could not see a CM roll bar piping in that much weight (321 Lbs), so I figured that the truck scale must be drunk being that the first track scale readings seemed parallel to what I was doing with the car's advertised 3180 weight. Or so I thought.
Oh well................. I go at it again with a few other dietary tricks and go to a scale reading last Summer at a different track with a full tank, tools, spare in the trunk and this time with me in the pilot seat.
3390 Lbs. WHATTTTT!!!!!!!!
Some body is drugging these scales or I'm a bad mathematician or a wishful tinkerer. I'm physically light, but not enough to only make a difference of 20 lbs on top of 3370 lbs. This confusion made both prior scale readings suspect along with the registration.
So where do I stand? IIRC, my strict records (not in front of me at the moment) tallied up all the weight trimmings to date since day one to be 620 lbs more or less.
Would that mean that this pup was well over 3670 Lbs from the factory based on the 3390 Lbs track scale reading?
This 3390 figure minus 620 lbs would presumedly mean that it was closer to 4000 Lbs or so originally and I find that hard to believe for a small block or even a big block 330 cheapo stripper with hardly any creature features.
So you see, I'm really confused or in denial as to the real cars weight now, but it's obviously lighter than its humble school teacher beginnings, what ever that figure may have been.
Now that I'm almost done with bulk weight removal and moving into micro weight removal territory, I'll look forward to having four well calibrated real world scales under all four wheels to come up with either a eureka moment or a heart break with more hard work left to do. And since I have recorded every ounce to the count of weight removed, I could actually know what this pup originally weighed by simply adding in the removed pounds to the figure the four wheel scales will say.
Details at 11.
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Re: Real world weight loss program and it` cost..........
[Re: dannysbee]
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12/02/13 01:42 PM
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Okay. After looking over my actual log over the past 20 years or so, I have reduced the cars weight by 675 Lbs with another guesstimated 20-30 Lbs to take off with other up coming tricks while retaining a relatively STOCK look.
Only prying sharp eyes will pick up on the non stock subtleties, so there will be a Tax incurred if you want to peep under the hood for any longer than a New York minute. LOL
If budget allows and certain parts arise, I can see another honest 20-30 lbs shaved off the top while wearing an all metal skin.
Last edited by fullmetaljacket; 12/02/13 05:21 PM.
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Re: Real world weight loss program and it` cost..........
[Re: hemi-itis]
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12/02/13 02:02 PM
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That's right, A light headed heavyweight we have here.LOL.
Al, maybe you'd be interested in a light weight aluminum bed for that truck. LOL.
Last edited by fullmetaljacket; 12/02/13 02:04 PM.
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Re: Real world weight loss program and it` cost..........
[Re: fullmetaljacket]
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12/02/13 04:46 PM
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Great Neck,LI,new york
hemi-itis
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That's right, A light headed heavyweight we have here.LOL.
Al, maybe you'd be interested in a light weight aluminum bed for that truck. LOL.
Just put a lighter driver in it,,,,,,,,,,,,when he can reach the pedals
HEMI-ITIS has no cure.
My condition is fully BLOWN!!
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Are you going to weight it on 4-corner scales anytime soon? 
