Been thinking about using alum. bolts where I can for a while plus they look great..........You`re really going to town on that thing and all of these ideas are great...........

If you only knew what really lurks underneath its sheeps clothing.
All these weight loss steps I affectionally call "How to race your car and stay married" LOL.
Lightweight cars usually stay together longer hence the Husband and Wife fight a lot less.
Oh, aluminum hood pins and snap locks take another 1 lb off as do Titanium lug nuts on all four wheels.
Cut off the excess header flange material between exhaust ports on the head. 1/2 to 1 lb there. Headers will seal better as well. Titanium header bolts also take off another 1/4 lb.

If I were thinking at the time, I would have added chrome-moly box stock for frame connectors instead of the steel ones on there now. Though, I have heard that chrome-moly will stress crack after a while.

Oh, I get it, I need to get married then I`ll spend more time in the garage...............

If you're trying to go faster, have you considered a tunnel ram?

Weight loss...? Not me.

I would help you out Thumper but I am doing it all wrong. I took a 2550# small block 1970 Duster and turned it into a 2800# small block Duster.

"I would help you out Thumper but I am doing it all wrong. I took a 2550# small block 1970 Duster and turned it into a 2800# small block Duster."
Same here with my B body. Loose weight,go faster,upgrade to rollcage,add wheelie bars,add parachute-back to original weight or more!!!

Mike

have you removed everything related to the hoodlatch? i can honestly say that i dont have a clue how much wheight that might be,i only know that all i have left betwen the radiatorframe and the plastic betwen the front bumper and the hood(for the life of me i cant remember the english word) is a fairly thin piece of sheetmetal to stabilize.

There's about an extra 80-90# of "dead-weight" in the drivers seat of my Duster since I booted my son out of the driving duties.

I use a bolt on hood pinned cos they sent me the wrong hood so there`s some there. No hood latches left but I know there`s some metal to be removed yet and once I gut the interior I`ll take care of that and more.

Adobe is doing something right.... his truck is 1100# lighter than mine - and they both left the factory the same weight.

The car had stainless steel braided fuel line through out from the tank sump to the carb. Now installed all aluminum 1/2 line from the sump to the front inline filter and then from there had the special super lightweight Pro-lite hoses to the carb and it saved 7-1/4 lbs. Mind you, hand bending the 1/2 aluminum line to conform to the factory routing to be very neat was a nightmare on my hands and sanity, but I got it done. Pro-lite hose is pricey but feather weight and military spec strong.

Went down that road too w/the fuel system deal and ended up w/earls stuff u mentioned and shaved a few lbs. I`m sure. I also hand bent the 1/2" stuff and it was a work out...........

Remember Grasshopper!
Butch and my Eleanor ?

Hood hinges ,trunk hinges and brake pedal. Half the pedal pad is cut off.

Door hinges

Under dash ,no more wipers on this one but over 25 lbs of stuff came out of there,