Re: Real world weight loss program and it` cost..........
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He already can. I fabricated a set of extended Magnesium pedals for the Go and Whoa phases.LOL.
I did not know till yesterday that those wing car wings were aircraft aluminum based. I do seem to recall "Big Willie" R.I.P telling me that his 69'Daytona was a highly modified lightened Wing car by way of the shade tree knife.
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Re: Real world weight loss program and it` cost..........
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I'm not sure if I've posted this before on this thread being that it is so vast and deep at this point, but I figured oh what the heck. At a future time, I'd like to remove my stock radiator support member and replace it with a homemade replica of this A990 unit. This is an image from Hemieddies website. I should be able to replicate all the bends, embosses and stamped holes. Winter is long for a short while.
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Re: Real world weight loss program and it` cost..........
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Now that I'm hunting ounces, I've scratched my head about the merits of fabricating an aluminum front grille filler panel that sits between the front bumper and grille itself. I'll post pics as soon as I remove it and weigh it. I guesstimate it to weigh 3Lbs or less in stock form.
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Re: Real world weight loss program and it` cost..........
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Yeap, A lot later indeed, a lot later in the night that is was. While most of you were asleep I was typing the results of the Thumperdart submission turned into Thumperdart commission. LOL
I'm exhausted from a long day of meetings, thanksgivings and such, so bare with me.
Okay, from what I remember in the back lots of my mind, it was a bright and sunny day when I picked up my small block powered, manual drum brake, Power steering, AM radio, heater employed 2 door post sedan from a Brooklyn school teacher. I glimpsed down at my new registration and naively over joyed at the numbers; 3180 Lbs curb weight as it was sprung from the nest over at Lynch Rd. In hind site and said by Public Enemy, "Don't believe the type" LOL.
Almost immediately a year after and still believing the "Type" on the regi, a modest diet plan goes into affect and a first trip to the scales at the track shortly thereafter read: 3049 Lbs with out me in the seat and factoring in a half a tank of gas more or less. Hard to believe but Wow, right direction. The "Type" must really be really, or so I thought.
A year later, I install my CM roll bar and apply a surgical knife with a more ambitious diet in place, half a tank of gas and with out me in the seat and head over to a local certified truck scale; 3370 Lbs, WHAT!!!!! How could this be? I could not see a CM roll bar piping in that much weight (321 Lbs), so I figured that the truck scale must be drunk being that the first track scale readings seemed parallel to what I was doing with the car's advertised 3180 weight. Or so I thought.
Oh well................. I go at it again with a few other dietary tricks and go to a scale reading last Summer at a different track with a full tank, tools, spare in the trunk and this time with me in the pilot seat. 3390 Lbs. WHATTTTT!!!!!!!! Some body is drugging these scales or I'm a bad mathematician or a wishful tinkerer. I'm physically light, but not enough to only make a difference of 20 lbs on top of 3370 lbs. This confusion made both prior scale readings suspect along with the registration.
So where do I stand? IIRC, my strict records (not in front of me at the moment) tallied up all the weight trimmings to date since day one to be 620 lbs more or less. Would that mean that this pup was well over 3670 Lbs from the factory based on the 3390 Lbs track scale reading? This 3390 figure minus 620 lbs would presumedly mean that it was closer to 4000 Lbs or so originally and I find that hard to believe for a small block or even a big block 330 cheapo stripper with hardly any creature features.
So you see, I'm really confused or in denial as to the real cars weight now, but it's obviously lighter than its humble school teacher beginnings, what ever that figure may have been. Now that I'm almost done with bulk weight removal and moving into micro weight removal territory, I'll look forward to having four well calibrated real world scales under all four wheels to come up with either a eureka moment or a heart break with more hard work left to do. And since I have recorded every ounce to the count of weight removed, I could actually know what this pup originally weighed by simply adding in the removed pounds to the figure the four wheel scales will say.
Details at 11.
Holy cow...OK...now we understand why you haven't posted the weight of your car up all this time....but, we'd think a guy that's as anal as you about weight would have found out the actual weight of his car a long time ago... (and I'm still waiting on that picture... )
If you can't handle the truth, you're living a lie.......
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Re: Real world weight loss program and it` cost..........
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Gee, 3200 something! That there puts me in A-body territory. I guess I'll be the big Elephant in the room.LOL. I will not delete any more stuff until I get it scaled, then whom ever came close to the numbers now, I'll still honor a small prize in the mail. I suspect one of you has hit it on the nail. After the up-coming scaling, I kind of wanna start on a new slate to see what can be achieved realistically down the road. The ounce counts campaign should prove challenging. Now when I get more or less finished with all the tricks that I can muster up and share at a later date, that will be another guessing game. So in essence, this thread can go on for ever. LOL.
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Re: Real world weight loss program and it` cost..........
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12/12/13 07:48 PM
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FMJ, any idea if Corning glass or late model thin window glass is worth making the change?
July 19th should be "Drive Like Rockford Day". R.I.P. Jimmie.
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Re: Real world weight loss program and it` cost..........
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My front windshield is bubble molded Lexan which was what they used on the 1965' AFX 12% cars. The roll up door side windows as well as the fixed quarter windows are coated Percy's Lexan glass. Saved about 25 lbs or so on the sides and about 18 or so Lbs on the windshield alone IIRC.
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Re: Real world weight loss program and it` cost..........
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A fortune teller told me recently that I have the sign of the Pentastar on my palm and that my car will become a Wolf when the Wolfbane blooms and the Moon is full and bright. LOL. Here's my front bumper filler panel that weighs in at a whopping 2-3/4 Lbs without the paint.
After it visits the health spa in Detroit and takes a dip in their bubbling chacuzzi there, it should weigh within a pound of its shadow. LOL. I think that A-bodies have a similar panel between their grilles and bumper. Promise to myself that it will stop from here on till my scales arrive next week.
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Re: Real world weight loss program and it` cost..........
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I removed my wiper motor and arms last night. 7.5#, need to pull the linkage out from under the dash still.
-Dustin 67 Dart, 9 second, 392" G3 Hemi 68 Barracuda 340 F/SA
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