I am extremely happy with the progress I have made.With the add'l CM bars I added back some weight but the rigidness it brings is as good as weight loss!

If everything is tied up nicely rigid and true, that car should unleash some pent up energy like never before.

Was once given free of charge from a certain guy a Cadillac DeVille two door with a 500 incher in the nest. Weighed at least 5000 Lbs wet. That thing, without any fanfare or exaggeration would lay down a patch of rubber 3/4 of a NYC block without a sweat gland opening.
Was having many guys looking like they all had hair lice all over the neighborhood as to why it had so much torque.
I can imagine that very same set up as is from the factory or with some CPP heads, Edelbrock intake and some cast iron high flow exhaust manifolds in a 3000 Lbs coupe.

My 68 'only' has the 472... but a high compression one (Caddy guys peg actual around 9.5ish). Its got dual exhaust (not a good one, press-bent 2.5" with ancient Flowmasters), and open element air cleaner, all non-basic options removed (AC, CC, etc.). Its in an honest to god 6000lb car (hearse) and i tell ya... that sucker can get out ov its own way! Even with the 31" mud tires i have on the back, it'll roast 'em both easily. I've got an Edelbrock intake for it and i'm going to build a real dual exhaust. If i ever start spending money in it, first stop is a BIG cam. If i just FIXED what was wrong with this car it would pick up seriously. I couldn't imagine this plant in my old 3200lb Skylark...

Caddy's came with a [censored] tune, restrictive air cleaners and the worst exhaust and intake imaginable. Just fix the first three and you've got something. Actually put a real intake on there, and a cam... ANY cam (just like Mopars, Caddy's came with ridiculously mild cams) and you've got a killer. Spend just a bit on some rockers so you can rev it to 5000rpm and well...

Coolest thing about Caddy's is the block. These things are stout. You can overbore them a LOT. The cranks also have massive rod journals, and though cast, are plenty strong, so you can offset grind them a LOT.

Man, though my boy slick Rick aka "The Palm Reader" is the best body man in NY hands down with the most sensitive hands that feel any imperfections, he sucks or his camera sucks at taking pictures. LOL.

Here's the Pass door with a second hand of primer and ready for block sanding towards the black color.

Looking down the aisle. fre@k*ng thing is straighter than the rest of the car. LOL.
Check out the aluminum door hinges to the rear right waiting their turn on the rack.

Made it to Milan this evening, and the results were impressive. We had decent (~1700ft) air tonight, and normal track prep. The car is very consistent and would run a 11.73 with the full exhaust, and 11.66 with the dumps uncapped in this air. First pass I spun, so I hot lapped it and ran 11.41 and picked up 2 MPH over the other setup. I didn't gain that by loosing 36#...so the system must be working OK

Yeah!
That is some improvement and with a deuce ahead on mph. Great.
Sometimes it's that nerve point or more commonly known as the tipping point where a car reaches that and it brings on the coals.

Congrats. lighter and mightier is a good thing.

Now if we could only get Itis to dismantle his China wall exhaust, but I guess one thing at a time. he's got a buckets list still to do.

Nice.............

How did it sing while under the gun?

Mine sounds like a high pitched Indy car, but at about 5000 RPM's less. LOL.

Have a habit of going under and checking its condition and for looseness.
Though my miles have been limited this year and last, it still looks fresh and tight.
Would be interesting to make a sound check using 5ive different metals. 625 Inconel, 6AL4V Titanium, 6061 Aluminum, 341 Stainless steel and regular steel.

Stainless definitely makes a different sound. Thats what i'll be using when it comes time to build the 'keeper' exhaust. Probably a thicker wall stainless so ALL the sound comes out the barrel... Plus, i just discovered my favorite mufflers also come in stainless. Might be heavy... but this thing will sound GLORIOUS...

Yes, there are a few choices in thickness for stainless and yes, it does sound different. I love the tangle tin sound wave. At first liked the sound of the original flowmasters but they were mad heavy and even more restrictive.

It sounds like I'm sitting on the infield during a nascar race once I tip the loud pedal above 3k rpm. It had a .3x in it, but the track went away...Not bad for a iron head street car with 3.55's

355's? Wow! that is darn good.
Good sailing.
What kind of car are you conspiring about?

Another couple hundred pounds evicted here and there, though not easy may nudge you over into the 10's.

66 Belv.
have been 10's with a small amount of chemical enhancement, but a pair of those trick-flows should put me there and shed some weight as well.

That's a handsome car.
Not much of a tire well to stuff good sneakers, so all the weight that can be shaved primarily from the front to shift weight to those rears is a plus.

Thanks!
tire fitment issues have been addressed...pictured are 315/60's although I am currently running a smaller 295/65 (~28x10.5). Last time it was on a scale I think 48% was over the rear.

Is that a glass nose?

Plastic headlight update!
Today I finished installing the new home made plastic headlights.
The first picture shows the plastic drivers side installed and the old glass headlights on the passengers side. The second picture shows all the plastic headlights installed. The last picture shows the removed parts on the scale. The weight loss showing is
6 LBS 14.7 OUNCES! When you add the original hardware that I forgot and put away it's right at 7 LBS just as Lee predicted!
MJ

Real tricked front facade there MJ.
Really neat preparation and application.

Since I wanted and needed to have functioning lights, this was all in my bucket list that I could do to my buckets. Perhaps there is an aluminum version in the future.