Get well.
Be careful breathing any cutting dust or dust in general, it can spike your Flu back to square one. Now more than ever your breathing needs a breather, take it easy.
Yeah, a few companies not really well known make those Aluminum hood pins for circle track cars. I made mine at first and they worked for years. Much lighter than steel ones for sure.

Moroso fabricated aluminum transmission pans can knock off 3-5 lbs from the transmission underneath.
I replaced my deep cast aluminum pan with the fabricated sheet metal type and lost 4 Lbs.