Birds of a feather deal here.............

It takes one to know one. LOL

I`ve been caught..............

The apple doesn't fall far from the tree.
I guess this thread is actually because an apple did fall from a tree onto Isaac Newton's hands and he came up with the laws of motion over weight theory.

So true...............now the laws of motion and theory stuff could be another 80,000 hits itself.

Maybe with a few Henny Youngman one liners thrown in for good measure and laughs.

Question for 65' B-body experts here and everywhere. What does a horn button (WITHOUT) the ring look like on a low cost 330 Coronet model like mine.

Is there such a thing?
Is it plastic or a combo of metal and plastic?

for a few grams more, how about drilling small holes into the back side of the ring [ not coming through of course]? or would you be able to readily see them looking through the windsheild ?

Drilling is out of the question and there isn't much material to cut that much weight anyway. Right now the aluminum ring and horn center that I've created is 1/2 pound. There's not much more left in it.

Once I have the Horn ring buttoned up and welded and ready for final sanding and polishing, I'll post the start of what may be the only special rear shock plates in the sport. Stay tuned.

3 sets??

Like they say,
*Three the Hard way
*Three's company
*Three Kings
*Three guys walk into a bar

Besides -itis, You're running a Cal-track system which is way lighter than my Dinosaur Super Stock spring bundle. Probably 20 Lbs lighter right there.

In that old Steve M. article about lightening the Duster, they used mono leaves with a snubber to save weight...it worked on their 11 second car, but not really much tuning you can do, so may not be viable on a higher powered car.

Yes, higher Horses will need some adjustable tuning in the suspension.
I know mine still needs some tweaks here and there to get the 60 ft on kill.
In other breaking news, my fenders should be ready by an ace paint and body guy in the early Spring and those will shave a good 25 lbs off the nose.
Sub 3000 is my goal, one ounce, pound at a time I will be there.

OUTLAWD, Are you talking about Steve Magnante writing the Duster article?
I might have missed that one though.
He's an excellent detail oriented writer. A treasure to our times.

So is Al Kirschenbaum. Aside from writing numerous correct Mopar articles since the 60's, Al has written an excellent technical reference review on the 5.0 Mustangs a few years back. Now his current three part HEMI series in Mopar Action is a must read. This guy knows his stuff.

Fellas, It's Fall and soon to be Winnnnter.
Break out the drill bits, Hole saws, Hack saws, Plasma cutters, Die grinders, Scales and Diet binders.
Let the lightest car float away.LOL.

Looking to up the rotor size to 11.75 (adding 5 lbs/side...ouch!) but keeping an eye out for AndyF's discontinued Wilwood brackets for the stock spindle, which would save 9 lbs/side, so net 8 lb loss, with better braking!

Also an alum carb main body (mainly for adjustability, but lightness never hurt)

Starting to look at replacing steel brackets with alum, alum with CF, etc.

Not doing too bad at 3450 for a full interior, street B-body with iron heads, but I have a lot of low hanging fruit at this point to shed some pounds.