Convertible Vehicles - NEW RACE WEIGHT....Ready to knock on that 8sec door bitches!!

So over the winter I have been taking as much weight out of my car as I possible could......Got it on the scales last night....3240 with driver and gas.......Last go around was 3540.....

Still have power steering, power windowns, locks, alarm. Plan to drop atleast 100lbs more before next year then its getting jetted up and going for 8.9's in a true street drivien car!

to date the best ET on the old setup has been 9.36@147 with the best mph being 149mph.....Droped 300lbs and gonna jet this bitch up! Probably around towards the end of the season I plan on driving it to Rockingham (1 hour away) and puttin her in the 8's and driving home......

I definitely want to stay in touch on this, that's crazy!

awesome!

Cant wait to see it! Post up when you go to the ROCK, I have been wanting to take my car to a good track for a while now!

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Cant wait to see it! Post up when you go to the ROCK, I have been wanting to take my car to a good track for a while now!

sounds good man...Would love to get some pictures of our cars together....

Any chance you can enlighten us on how to loose 300 lbs in a vert? Full interior? Maybe you have touched on this before? Linky maybe? TKS bro

:headbang::headbang::nod:

Cant wait to hear the updates. Where did you pull all the weight from?

Any pics or videos?

So over the winter I have been taking as much weight out of my car as I possible could......Got it on the scales last night....3240 with driver and gas.......Last go around was 3540.....

Still have power steering, power windowns, locks, alarm. Plan to drop atleast 100lbs more before next year then its getting jetted up and going for 8.9's in a true street drivien car!

to date the best ET on the old setup has been 9.36@147 with the best mph being 149mph.....Droped 300lbs and gonna jet this bitch up! Probably around towards the end of the season I plan on driving it to Rockingham (1 hour away) and puttin her in the 8's and driving home......

So I have a great idea that you may want to hear. I'm sure I'm not the only one who's thought of it. Anyways, you know the tonneau cover (this one: http://www.autotuningstore.com/RKSport_Tonneau_Cover__01017005__ChevyChevrolet__C amaro__From_1993__To_2002--product--360273.html ) that they sell for the verts right? So I thought about buying that and removing the entire soft top and framing off the car. Only thing is that would make it a full time vert obviously. But if you garage keep yours and only drive it on nice days, then I see no issue. Haha.

How much weight is that worth I wonder....

As far as I know the vert /pump / wiring is only about 100lbs.

So I have a great idea that you may want to hear. I'm sure I'm not the only one who's thought of it. Anyways, you know the tonneau cover (this one: http://www.autotuningstore.com/RKSport_Tonneau_Cover__01017005__ChevyChevrolet__C amaro__From_1993__To_2002--product--360273.html ) that they sell for the verts right? So I thought about buying that and removing the entire soft top and framing off the car. Only thing is that would make it a full time vert obviously. But if you garage keep yours and only drive it on nice days, then I see no issue. Haha.

How much weight is that worth I wonder....

According the the RKSport website, the fiberglass one weighs 45lbs. I had one and that sounds about right.

Way to REPRESENT the Verts Bro!!!

I'm with 00Camary and jdhedman, where did the loss come from and do you have a write-up on it?

I would love to hear more about this car

Yes would def love to hear more about the car. Link to a build thread possibly??

crickets.....

hahaha sorry its been so long guys. I will be posting a full weight reduction thread ASAP! We did end up getting down to 3092lbs without driver and still have power steering, full power windows, door locks, alarm and half of the factory LT1 wiring harness.

Have not done much sense that last outing with the car last year. We did remove all of the nitrous. We are now running IHRA Super Stock with the car. We ended up adding a single wheelie bar which added 20lbs so we ended up around 3265 race weight. We got our 1st win at our 2nd outing with the car. We plan on removing/replacing the following:

Power steering (10lbs?)
replacing my TH400 with a LIGHT weight Th350 or Metric 200 (100lbs min)
Re wiring the whole car (10lbs)
replacing the factory hood with a VFN pin on (around 25lbs difference)
Forza II seats for Kirkly alum. (20lbs difference)


Like I said im planning on doing a full list of stuff when I get back in town Tuesday of next week. thanks guys for still being interested. here are some current pictures with the wheels and breaks.

http://i223.photobucket.com/albums/dd140/Sprayin96ta/2-2.jpg
http://i223.photobucket.com/albums/dd140/Sprayin96ta/camaro%20and%20Duster/1.jpg
http://i223.photobucket.com/albums/dd140/Sprayin96ta/camaro%20and%20Duster/camaro.jpg

http://i223.photobucket.com/albums/dd140/Sprayin96ta/2-1.jpg
http://i223.photobucket.com/albums/dd140/Sprayin96ta/3-1.jpg
http://i223.photobucket.com/albums/dd140/Sprayin96ta/1Edit.jpg

http://i223.photobucket.com/albums/dd140/Sprayin96ta/11-2.jpg

please excuess the beer and funnel. This was my first "big win" and we were all goin crazy!
http://i223.photobucket.com/albums/dd140/Sprayin96ta/181442_10150898032148394_510396735_n.jpg

Nice to see another vert with some attitude! Great job on cutting down the weight.