1000 Lbs heavier? You better put that car on a fasting before the holidayz.LOL.
Wagons are indeed heavy, but all in the right places.

Hemi-its, that HEAVY master cylinder on the far right bottom is giving me the willies. Wish that wind tunnel gadget on top of the engine would be lighter too.

My man "The Palm Reader" Rick has been on a rather sneaky diet lately. He wants to offshoot the weight of the elephant in the room to be more like at wedge weight. It is going to be a beautiful car. Can't wait to ride along side it.

Master is on the list along with heads and radiator.The holesaw will get much exercise this winter as well........

There is that voice in my head that won't go away,,,,it's Jenny

More like Jack-La-Lee's health and fitness.
That radiator, master, heads, and all the side windows in lexan will evaporate 130 Lbs easy.
Radiator = 7-10 Lbs
Heads = 80 Lbs
Master = 5-7 Lbs
All lexan side = 25-33 Lbs

Once I free up this months end, I'm paying your car a visit.

And I'll buy breakfast,luch or dinner depending what time you sneak out!
The big old Milodon oil pan will be replaced by a fab aluminum one.

A starving artist always appreciates a meal.LOL.

Good start on the pan. I'm replacing mine with a Charlies aluminum version this Winter.
See you on the 27th for the season finally. Trying to get a moment to check things over. It's been too long.

Well, probably close to throwing in the towel on this season but am still trying to get the car running before the deep freeze. Holding out hope but it's not looking too promising. Not sure what good it is to have a light car that's stationary. Anyway...

Was working on some things recently that snowballed into removing the entire dash wiring harness. Frankly, this was something on my car that needed to be addressed. It was a rat's nest of unused and excess wiring, quick splices and general disorganization. I'm happy it's all out, it was driving me nuts and making it difficult to work on.

I unwrapped and removed all the unnecessary wiring from the main harness including the radio and heater circuits, the wipers (don't plan on driving it in wet weather - Rain X!) and the courtesy lights.

Crusty wiper motor is 7 lbs. of pig iron, not including the arms and linkage. Cleans up the firewall nicely.


My car originally had the A01 light package which was a map and ignition light on a time delay circuit that's on it's own dedicated harness. All gone now.

Non-essential dash wiring totaled about 4 lbs including the wiper switch.



I also decided to switch to a plastic dash with aftermarket gauges and an aftermarket fuse panel. The dash panel itself is ABS plastic and weighs nothing but the gauges do add some weight back to it. There is a little less wiring involved with mechanical gauges, no printed circuit board and associated harness. You're also ditching redundant gauges since you're not adding aftermarket gauges on top of the factory stuff. Need to get a new speedo cable now though, the AM unit does not adapt to the OE cable with the plastic boot and clip.


So there's at least 10 lbs. off the front half of the car, not to mention a neater work environment.

HHHHHMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMmmmmmmm.
Somebody's been sneaking into the shed after midnight out on Long Island. LOL.
Funny enough, I feel there will be some lights flickering coming from Area 51.
I think next season is going to be lots of fun with a few LIGHTHEARTED cars coming out.

I actually have been out there past midnight sometimes.


I need to be done with this thing.

How does one get access to Area 51? Is there a secret code in a cereal box?

Light were on in area 55 last night. My season is DONE!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BydCJvWv0rU

Was smoking out the breathers like a BBQ,just don't know why,,,,,,,YET

That's a good amount of weight since it is mid ship to front and high. Makes a difference.
Too late now, but for those going the same route as RMCHGR, Auto meter makes Ultra-light mechanical and electric gauges that are lighter than their standard gauges, but come with a silvery face color. No black as far as I've seen.
RMCHGR, that gauge cluster looks fantastic.

Time just gets away from us on some occasions, and then it's crickets on others. Perhaps time laden projects ultimately create better packages and keeps us busy with thought and pursuit instead of boredom.
I'm also plagued with no time at all and every mila-second that I do have at the car makes me insane when I look at all that has to still be done. You should see how cluttered of a rats nest my under dash is even as spartan as it is.

Yeah, Area 51 is quite a feat to get into. More like a grotto then an open dessert resort. Try this, all you have to do is submit a drawing of a lightweight car and send it in for confirmation just like the old comic book Pirate and Turtle drawing contests. LOL.
I'll give you some clearance soon.

Wait a minute, what is that I see ye? 68' BO29 lightweight seat tracks?
You dirty dog you. LOL.
That Duster should be rather zippy and twisty when it sheds the bugs out.

The S/S seat brackets have been in there for a couple years. P.I.T.A. to get them to work with those seats but I made it happen.




Thanks for the compliment on the dash BTW!

Brackets look proper for those seats. Factory should have made standard on BODY IN WHITE cars back in 70'

You need to get rid of that pent roof BDS intake an put one in with a bigger plenum area with a flat floor
That might worth up to 40 HP at or above 7000 RPM, depending on who did the dyno testing and which brand dynometer the testing was done on

Just thought I'd bring the old thread back up and post some spy photos of this crooked Coronet that was out in the wild a few weeks ago.



Painter ran out of paint? Get what you pay for I guess.

You can't tell me you carry that sign around...way too much weight there...

Ever see the movie "Where the wild things are"? LOL.

Yeah, I've got some tweaking to do this weekend in bringing up my Drivers side ride height via the torsion bolt. Drove straight though all the way back to Brooklyn and it has some awesome leap frog weight transfer at the moment.
Will be on the scales soon enough.

Da#m signs are magnetic and too heavy. Gotta paint the signage with water color paint as the lightest. LOL.
Just trying to keep the foot soldiers from knocking on them. Just the engine idle vibrations create cracks on certain stress points over time, a common problem with those fenders back in the day.

I thought I had seen aluminum bumper bolts in this thread awhile back. Any help? It's for a 1971 Dart. I tried searching for it but no luck so far. Thanks, Clint