Thankxxx John, I`ll look into that. I always said if a car has lexan it better run 8`s but may eat my words cos light is right and I need some 9.50`s bad............

Yes, a while back they were heat molding the windows as per your originals. I bought mine pre-molded from Kramers for the early B's. Your rear window i would prefer to keep in for weight distribution. The front windshield is the lard that needs its walking papers. A note: I do not use windshield wipers since my car is the perfect weather vain. Wipers may result in scratches and blemishes on any Lexan coated or not.

Thumper. Ship your car to the big Apple and enroll it in my jack-o-Lee's health spa. We'll have that pup floating like a kite in Central Park. LOL.

Skin It LOL

Dig this one, I mentioned to Dr. Diff a crazy idea. Though I have not done this one yet I think it can work, but for some reason I'm confused at the moment as to how the axles will bolt on.
if in the market of building a new differential, using either a Dana or 8-3/4 housing, weld on GM housing ends to except GM backing plates and all GM brake hardware. Have the axles flanges be GM bolt pattern and than guest what? GM aluminum drums from your local junked 80's Trans Am, 78-80's Malibu, Monte Carlos' and Camaros.

Moser axles will make any bolt pattern on their axles. I guess a system like the C-clip eliminator kit can work.

Here is some of Ron Silva's lightening efforts on his old Valiant.

Here is a bumper bracket.

Ron Silva's method to lighten bolts.

Ron Silva:

Drilled Draglink.

Ron Silva:

Drilled steering column shaft.

Ron Silva:

Interior.

No dirt or dust...anywhere!

No Heater, No wipers, no radio, drilled aluminum seat brackets, plastic race seats, lightweight steering wheel.

The little details yield impressive results.

when we got our 71 Duster years ago(it's been sold), it weighed with driver 3300lbs...I thought that was really heavy since it had a light weight pin on hood, rear deck and the thin glass doors....

so what I did was...removed all the overweight thick walled roll cage...was out of date anyways and welded in a proper mild steel cage...

next I replaced all the glass with Lexan....any bracket that was removable and wasn't structural was replaced with aluminum..

the fuel cell was replace with a 10gal aluminum tanks versus the heavy plastic caved in tank...

at weigh in with my wife as driver, it was just under 2700lbs...

the 63 Dodge that I'm building, should come in at 2800lbs...the entire back half will be aluminum including the tubs...the cage will be molly tubing...the front half is boxed and will have an AlterKtion front assembly, the rear suspension is a 4-link using Molly tubes...Im keep the factory glass but will have Lexan roll ups...this will be a street/strip car

Ya Ron lightened everything possible but cleanly which is doable. After taking a good look at my car I feel 100 lbs. MAY be doable but my work is defintely cut out for sure. Thankxx for the motivation guys............... I need to make door panels to replace my warped junk so what`s the thinnest lightest material to use. Anyone use thin wood or paneling and cover em?

You can get plastic cardboard at home depo.
Real light and durable ???
Just a thought

Thankxxx al...........can`t wait to get back to Famoso for my "impossible" 9.59@ 137 timeslip.........

I went to lexan rear quarter windows.

The glass / regulator / hardware was weighed .

28 lbs total

I fabricated my centerlink from hollow chrome-moly tubing which we plug welded and seam welded all around to the original link ends. Saved 3 lbs.
Thumper.
You can use thin gauge sheet aluminum for the door panels and use a good industrial glue to adhere the panel material. Magnesium is prone to being flammable, a no no for interior work.
I've also fabricated the top portion of the door panel out of aluminum. The originals are slightly heavy steel stampings. saved about a 1-1/2 lbs.

The first few hundred pounds in some instances is always the easiest. The remaining two or so hundred pounds is the hardest and or expensive, but so is rebuilding motors, transmissions, rears that need to pull some of these lead sleds down the quarter.