Does Anyone Make Light Weight E body Spindles?

Does anyone currently make light weight stock replacement E body Spindles? or has any one had luck trimming their stock ones up? It just seems like a huge piece of metal that needs to go on a diet

I'm sure there are places that can stand to be dieted safely, but I've seen too many "lightened" suspension parts that look like suicide attempts.
Got a good picture? I may be able to spot something.

The late model FMJ knuckles are significantly lighter than the early knuckles. It appears that someone at Mopar finally took a class on FEM and used it on those knuckles. The weight savings isn't huge, maybe 1.5 lbs per side but it is already done for you.

i had the spindles off my car recently (FMJ spindles) and they didn't seem a like an excessively heavy part given their purpose...

another question, with the FMJ spindles being a bit taller than the A body spindles, does that equate to slightly less negative camber being dialed into the suspension?

Stock spindle is only 5 lbs.

Thanks guys, I would have figured a lot more than 5 lbs. I still need to lose about 200 pounds, serching

How about the driver?

R.

I guess I could find 10-15 lbs there

Have you removed the safety crash bars out of the doors? They're pretty heavy.

Well, you can get FG e-body bumpers, fenders, lexan windows, FG dash...What's the interior look like?

If I were the track/racing venue attorney, I would make sure that "modifications to suspension parts constitute participatory liability assigned to the driver/owner in a crash" appears in the release form.
If it's neither OEM nor SEMA they will blame you if it fails.

The solution: blend and radius any metal removal and repaint!

I took a pound out of each spindle on my car. Then got yelled at on here. I run wilwoods so no need for all that metal for caliper bracket

Shame on you Ray. Make sure you let the track owners know, wherever you race.

I already have FG hood, fenders , trunk lid, doors valances, lexan windows, tube k member, dash is a 5" x 8" piece of aluminum. Only tach and oil gauge. 1 seat no interior

Whats it weigh?

About 2990 without me

When I was trying to lose weight on my 70 challenger I lost like 300 lbs by building an A body

And BOOM! goes the dynamite...........

I see he already has FG doors, but FYI to those contemplating crash beam removal, it is 15 lbs. per door.

but she's so sexy! And after having it for 34 years my wife would kill me. However I could picture myself throwing this combo in a little Daytona

Yeah, and everybody knows there isn't an A-Body on the planet as Sexy as an E-Body. Thats just how it is.

My 73 Cuda only weighed 2130, of course the whole body was fiberglass.LOL
An E-body is only 4-5 inches wider and maybe a little shorter than an A-body, can't see 300 lbs difference both cars being equal with the same weight removed( fenders,doors,trunk). Now full car as built, could be.

"590 crapbox Daytona" doesn't have the same ring to it and you would have to call it that to differentiate from the REAL Daytonas.

Drum brake spindles are lighter but would need a different caliper adapter.

Yeah but I'm getting really tired of starring at the back end of those little mustangs

Thanks, that is what I have now, I will touch them up with a tad of grinder love

Grind on them, radius the corners, then shot peen them to harden the surface.
Magnaflux for cracks first.

Your glass bumpers chromed?

Bumpers are still the original ones, mounted to aluminium tubes, I guess its time for a change

My Duster could handle all that power. Car was over built for what I use it for. ...And its for sale. Weighs 2700ish without me. Still has steel fenders and doors with roll up windows.

Thanks but I just think I will try to shave a few pounds this winter. I'm also cutting the engine down to a 528, adding aluminum rods, raising the compression, uping it from 30 to 45 pounds of boost, hoping to stuff it into the lower half of the 4's next season. Time will tell

In the picture, the bolt attachment points are entirely in shear and can have much less material around them, grind off the excess.
The arch going to the ball joint is more dangerous.

Kool, I won't get too carried away

Do you run plastic headlights?

I never even heard of them

That metal is also unsprung weight (same as wheel and rotor), extra benefit to lightness, helps tire grip.

Have you looked at using spindles from an old A body that had 9" drum brakes?

Carbon fiber ceramic rotors= 10 lbs per rotor less