Made a few passes with the F1A today..
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There's a lot of places you can remove weight and it be completely undetectable. Especially with the cage you have in the car increasing structutal integrity. What all have you done to the doors in order to remove weight? All of the interior brackets? Bumper supports, frame horns, inner fender metal, heat shields and brackets underneath the car, etc... Give me an idea of what you removed and I'll tell you what else you can remove. I'm hoping mine will be around a 3000-3100lb raceweight with a 10 point, two leather seats, ac, ps, and turbo setup.
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There's a lot of places you can remove weight and it be completely undetectable. Especially with the cage you have in the car increasing structutal integrity. What all have you done to the doors in order to remove weight? All of the interior brackets? Bumper supports, frame horns, inner fender metal, heat shields and brackets underneath the car, etc... Give me an idea of what you removed and I'll tell you what else you can remove. I'm hoping mine will be around a 3000-3100lb raceweight with a 10 point, two leather seats, ac, ps, and turbo setup.
I can maybe cut off 10-20lbs worth of brackets from the rear but I dont want to take any weight off the rear. I could probably gut the doors a little more, just have the door bars out. I really need to get some weight off the front but I'm not going to cut the frame horns, inner sheet metal, pin on hood or anything like that just yet..
I'm happy how it looks/performs right now to be honest, it will still hit the 8's in good weather I think and thats about all I can ask for with the parts involved. I'd rather make 200 low 9 second passes a year instead of a dozen 8.70 passes and hurt the engine so I dont really push anything, 15 degrees of timing on C16 is pretty safe
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Thats sweet, If I could make a small fraction of the passes you have with as many glitches I'd have to try and hide my **** eating grin!
BTW you could always cut out the beer and go on a hardcore diet but thats not the funnest, LOL Being a natural bodybuilder/weightlifter, I went from my regular diet to my cutting diet last spring/summer and cut from 215 to 175. Change out the stock seats to a single race seat before you hit the track and thats a very good start on your 100lbs
Its amazing actually on how much weight you can strip from these cars but I too won't be doing it. I want it as stock as possible, a/c, ps, stereo/subthump, etc, etc. Way more enjoyable, especially the interior. Sound deadener and carpet would drive me crazy if replaced.
Those 8 second passes will come with good weather, the hard part of doing it already is done. Just continue to enjoy the car!
BTW you could always cut out the beer and go on a hardcore diet but thats not the funnest, LOL Being a natural bodybuilder/weightlifter, I went from my regular diet to my cutting diet last spring/summer and cut from 215 to 175. Change out the stock seats to a single race seat before you hit the track and thats a very good start on your 100lbs
Its amazing actually on how much weight you can strip from these cars but I too won't be doing it. I want it as stock as possible, a/c, ps, stereo/subthump, etc, etc. Way more enjoyable, especially the interior. Sound deadener and carpet would drive me crazy if replaced.
Those 8 second passes will come with good weather, the hard part of doing it already is done. Just continue to enjoy the car!
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Thats sweet, If I could make a small fraction of the passes you have with as many glitches I'd have to try and hide my **** eating grin!
BTW you could always cut out the beer and go on a hardcore diet but thats not the funnest, LOL Being a natural bodybuilder/weightlifter, I went from my regular diet to my cutting diet last spring/summer and cut from 215 to 175. Change out the stock seats to a single race seat before you hit the track and thats a very good start on your 100lbs
Its amazing actually on how much weight you can strip from these cars but I too won't be doing it. I want it as stock as possible, a/c, ps, stereo/subthump, etc, etc. Way more enjoyable, especially the interior. Sound deadener and carpet would drive me crazy if replaced.
Those 8 second passes will come with good weather, the hard part of doing it already is done. Just continue to enjoy the car!
BTW you could always cut out the beer and go on a hardcore diet but thats not the funnest, LOL Being a natural bodybuilder/weightlifter, I went from my regular diet to my cutting diet last spring/summer and cut from 215 to 175. Change out the stock seats to a single race seat before you hit the track and thats a very good start on your 100lbs
Its amazing actually on how much weight you can strip from these cars but I too won't be doing it. I want it as stock as possible, a/c, ps, stereo/subthump, etc, etc. Way more enjoyable, especially the interior. Sound deadener and carpet would drive me crazy if replaced.
Those 8 second passes will come with good weather, the hard part of doing it already is done. Just continue to enjoy the car!
I could do manual steering, manual brakes, cut all the unneeded brackets out, do a race car wiring setup and a pin on hood and lose 100l+bs or so. But then the car looses any street car feel at all. It drives like a Cadillac compared to some of the 8 second cars I drove years ago and thats one of the cool things about it. No lexan windows flapping in the breeze, not a wisp of smoke after a burnout in the car, its quiet in there as well, doesnt drive ike a 62 ford pickup with seized up kingpins, stock hood/latch and lifts is sure nice when someone isnt around to help you lift off the hood and I refuse to be held at the mercy of frozen water, its not uncommon for me to make 10-15 passes a day at the track - thats a lot of ice
Its all about compromises, sure I get a little bored with it sometimes because it really isnt a ton faster than a couple years ago but if I get a tenth quicker a year I can live with that. But you never know, I may step it up a little more soon..
Sounds like you have vision and will soon make consistant 8.9x passes.
BTW thats allot more understandable that you are 6'4'', I am just shy of 5'11'' and I was told I was too skinny too at 175, even with bodybuilding. I'm back at 200 now anyways, LOL
I'd never go to a manual rack or anything to make the car less streetable. Like I said, I have a full stereo with a DVD indash and subthump. Simple but nice and only takes up the fender gap. I just finished of setting the weight on the other fender with my battery. That too doesn't take any space.
I agree about the beauty of these cars is that they can be full street race weight and still haul ***. Look at MM he's close to 4000lb and is very close to the 8's. They can drive like stock but when the rubber hits the road, look out
Thats why I bought an Ls1 myself as I wanted to do an nasty old muscle car blow through carb setup. I love those cars but I'd never take it on the highway or for a trip, etc. Not near as enjoyable, worse on gas and less reliable. LS1's rule thats for show!
BTW thats allot more understandable that you are 6'4'', I am just shy of 5'11'' and I was told I was too skinny too at 175, even with bodybuilding. I'm back at 200 now anyways, LOL
I'd never go to a manual rack or anything to make the car less streetable. Like I said, I have a full stereo with a DVD indash and subthump. Simple but nice and only takes up the fender gap. I just finished of setting the weight on the other fender with my battery. That too doesn't take any space.
I agree about the beauty of these cars is that they can be full street race weight and still haul ***. Look at MM he's close to 4000lb and is very close to the 8's. They can drive like stock but when the rubber hits the road, look out
Thats why I bought an Ls1 myself as I wanted to do an nasty old muscle car blow through carb setup. I love those cars but I'd never take it on the highway or for a trip, etc. Not near as enjoyable, worse on gas and less reliable. LS1's rule thats for show! Thread Starter
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Yea but everything has a practical limit, once you get into bigger power with these you can just about choose any engine platform and make big power for the same amount of $$..
I have fun for what the car is, stock block/crank/intake/TB/oil pan/rocker arms/coils etc. Cant do that with a regular SBC and these dont leak a drop to boot. But if I was to do a low 8/high 7 second race car it would most likely have a BBC up there with a crank driven F3 or something
I have fun for what the car is, stock block/crank/intake/TB/oil pan/rocker arms/coils etc. Cant do that with a regular SBC and these dont leak a drop to boot. But if I was to do a low 8/high 7 second race car it would most likely have a BBC up there with a crank driven F3 or something
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