Re: Real world weight loss program and it` cost..........
[Re: fullmetaljacket]
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01/24/13 09:45 PM
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Thanks for the inspiration! I have lots and lots more to do, but here's a start. I went to a Braille 17# battery and replaced the factory mounting system/battery box and also my mounting brackets for both the coil and MSD. I know this probably doesn't LOOK very light, but it saved 31# off the very nose of the truck. I opted to leave it basically in the factory location rather than add 20# worth of battery cable and battery disconnect switch to get it all to the back of the truck. To me it looks like something out of a 1940's WWII plane. Yes, all aluminum - and lightweight! It's a good thing the MSD is in the pic for scale - no, that is not a GIANT MSD box. The new mount is painted black and simply disappears from view. Yes, that's the coil tucked in there as well. This thread is awesome for good ideas! I'm gonna go fab some other lightweight stuff up!
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Re: Real world weight loss program and it` cost..........
[Re: Duner]
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01/25/13 12:38 AM
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Duner.
Very nice work. That is a good amount off the front. This thread I believe, brings back the fundamentals of Tinkering with Hot Rods. It's what makes it fun again.
I figured it out this way as a general break down of the ideas vs labor vs cost. * There will be at the most, 15 places on a car or truck where 20 or more lbs can be removed or replaced. * There will be at the most, 20 places on a car or truck where 10 or 5 lbs can be removed or replaced. * There will be at the most, 25 places on a car or truck where 1 lb can be removed or replaced. * There will be at the most, a 100 places on a car or truck where eight ounces or less can be removed, but not necessarily replaced, But.........if replacing, the most expensive small parts or fasteners are where one pound down to an ounce will be addressed.
Check the Titanium K-member bolts. Saved only 1/2 Lb.
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Re: Real world weight loss program and it` cost..........
[Re: fullmetaljacket]
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01/25/13 01:24 AM
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Clearer look at the spacers. Plus I had to venture over to the dark side and spring for a GM 140 amper. Saved 3 Lbs over the original Chrysler round back 35 amper and no more charging problems while running my lights, electric fan, electric fuel pump and MSD 6AL.
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Re: Real world weight loss program and it` cost..........
[Re: dvw]
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01/27/13 07:10 PM
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I'm not in front of my papers, but it's pennies from the dollar as I call it. If I remember, both clamps still weighed a few micros less compared to one, but the advantage was double security. So the savings was not much at all, a few ounces if that. LOL. They are available from Mcmasters.
On the subject of your friends K-member. If indeed it is a Titanium piece, than it must be from the later super covert Pro-stock years during the early 70's when Trick Titanium over in Troy were in bed with Chrysler under the direction of Ted Spehar I believe. I was lucky enough to work with Larry Klajda at Trick Titanium on a few fasteners and things on my car before they moved further up north in Michigan, but not on a K-member unfortunately. Plus it would have been a fortune close enough to the one on Ebay recently. It's still there trying to fetch a bid of some kind.
If it's an early to mid sixties K-member and made out of Titanium, than it's a one of one. It could also be confused with one of a half a dozen Magnesium K's which could have been instigated by the creation of the four 2% AFX cars of 64' The 65' AFX cars had Lightweight stainless K's from what I know and were light, but not that light at 4 lbs unless of course if it's a mag. They also cracked under those wild wheel stands common during the day. A friend of mine threw one in the garbage here in Brooklyn when he found it to have cracks. Who knew. Funny enough, my K is not lightened other than the Motor mounts that have been removed in favor of the front engine plate. Here's a few Ti fasteners on the engine.
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Re: Real world weight loss program and it` cost..........
[Re: Thumperdart]
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01/29/13 01:59 AM
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have you trimmed down that K member down yet?? BTW you know if you go lexan your not gonna be a street car LOL
footbrake N/A SB 408 Scamp 10.10 @ 132 street/strip 73 Duster 340 street strip 12.79 @ 105
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