Yo! is this guy a resident in that can?? LOL.
Sorry Itis, RMCHGR opened up a can of worms. LOL.

when using aluminum fasteners, i have always used ample anti-seize. how many grams would that add back into the weight loss program ? i know this is WAY out there in the fanatical reaches, but a gram is a gram, no ?

a small smear is nothing unless you're seizing everything on the car.
Anti-seize is a lot better in weight to keep bolts from galling themselves in the sockets. I've reused most of my bolts when I took off stuff and replaced.

Marty Made me 4 inch aluminum,much lighter than the steel one!!

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I have been gone for a while but the weight loss program is ALWAYS in action. I have 2 things to report on. The first item is the steering column on my 1970 GTX. The GTX was a automatic on the floor car. I have removed all that and run a aftermarket shifter with a cable. The GTX had linkage to lock the steering wheel when in park with the key in the lock position. There is a tube that runs through the steering column to do this. Since I'm not using this I removed the locking tube and the surround. This amounted to 3LBS of weight loss! I have attached a picture that shows the tube at the bottom. The second item is the driver. My wife has been working on losing some weight and it has affected me and I have lost 5 more pounds. Yesterday at Route 66 Raceway the GTX with me, fuel and safety equipment scaled in at 3065LBS!
We had a great outing and lost in the 5th round.
MJ

Great trick-notion to remove the steering lock tube.
that's a good place to shave weight off the car.
Personal weight is always good to shed unless you drive a Funny car where your weight is in the middle and rearward.

So tonight I played a little hooky and went over to Area51 to twist some wrenches with The Palm Reader.
Here's the stock, but gutted original steel passenger door after it was given a medal of honorable service over the years and sent to the stock pile.

........and in its place is one of two special doors to grace the hinges, aluminum hinges that is.

Installing the light alloy hinges. Hard job alone or even with two heads to align these precisely to work right. Shaved a good amount of pounds from the front end with these alone.

More-par to come later.

What's in the cookie jar?

Drop a wrench?

Here it is, the Hybrid mutant lightweight of all menu's with the first door hung. This has so far taken off 25 Lbs just on one side.
All it will need is a fresh coat of black and it will be properly dressed for the black tie event.

Can these secret sauce hinges be purchased..............

Yes, they can be purchased from just a few sources, but for early 64-65' B-bodies only. There are no A-body or E-body hinges in existence that I know of.
These are pure aluminum with brass sleeved steel hinge posts. Add in a set of Titanium fasteners and you can shave off a pound or more of weight.
Kramer Automotive Industries has them at $700 beans. I bought my set at a fraction of that from a cat that had lost interest.

Will you spray the door & fender with LW paint?

Just the doors are getting sprayed back to black and leaving the fenders as they are. One coat of one stage DCC9000 black to keep the weight down.
Still adjusting the door as of tonight. Lightweight strikers are going into the equation as well.

Oh, by the way, someone had mentioned if I was going the Funny car or AFX 2% look with no wind wings on the doors.
I am not going such route. I like my air conditioning vents and a street mannered look on top of that.
Believe it or not, the heaviest part of any sedan post door or hardtop door is the wind wing setup and its track. I am in the plans to change that with a few special parts in the future.
For the last 15 or so years, I have ran around with Lexan wind wings for a good weight savings, but the door is still hampered by the wings tracks and mounting hardware weight. It is night and day between the steel door and the ALCOA one.

Gotcha...........Guess they figure A-Bodies are light enuff...........

Yeah, they are indeed but it can never hurt with a little less mass to lug around. In fact, my friends factory stock 62' Plymouth Savoy Max Wedge might as well be an A body since its real all steel carcass only weighs in at 3395 Lbs wet at the curb.
Imagine if I had started a weight loss with that chassis instead of my mid-life whale 3600+ Lbs.