LT1 weight reduction???
....All your interior, replace the heavy stock seats with racing seats, lighter wheels, interior carpet i have seen removed and replaced with some BS AutoZone carpet, worked great.
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From: LT1 land...the "409" of the 90s!
Pretty much the same. LT1 stuff is more on some and less on others 
It will give you an idea.
https://ls1tech.com/forums/drag-racing-tech/17319-weight-reduction-list.html
It will give you an idea.
https://ls1tech.com/forums/drag-racing-tech/17319-weight-reduction-list.html
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Without gutting it, you can go dry cell battery, carbon fiber hood, remove bumper supports, pull the A/C, lose the spare and the jack, pull the back seats if you don't often carry passengers, aluminum or carbon fiber driveshaft, tubular or chromoly K member and A arms, racing seats and light weight carpeting/ sound deadening material. That should be 250+ lbs. I think you can put in a gas tank from a late model F- body to drop another 20lbs or so.
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Generous? In what way?
Dry cell battery- 16lbs
Bumper supports- 44lbs
CF hood- 20lbs
!A/C- I've seen anywhere from 35- 55lbs. Let's say 40lbs
Driveshaft- 5 lbs
Chromoly K member + A arms- 60lbs
Racing seats- 38lbs
Light weight carpeting + sound deadening material- 30lbs
Back seats (leather)- 25lbs
Spare + jack- 35lbs
That adds up to 313lbs, plus 20 from the gas tank would be 333 lbs. Even if my numbers are off by a few pounds each, that's still 300lbs.
Dry cell battery- 16lbs
Bumper supports- 44lbs
CF hood- 20lbs
!A/C- I've seen anywhere from 35- 55lbs. Let's say 40lbs
Driveshaft- 5 lbs
Chromoly K member + A arms- 60lbs
Racing seats- 38lbs
Light weight carpeting + sound deadening material- 30lbs
Back seats (leather)- 25lbs
Spare + jack- 35lbs
That adds up to 313lbs, plus 20 from the gas tank would be 333 lbs. Even if my numbers are off by a few pounds each, that's still 300lbs.
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Originally Posted by ZONES89RS
300 is not too bad at all, i cannot wait to see what my 89 will look like.
http://www.grounddynamics.com/Templa...bFolderId=1673
http://www.grounddynamics.com/Templa...bFolderId=1673
A dry cell battery is about $170
Racing seats cost about $700 with the seats and brackets
Chromoly K member + A arms will probably run you about $1200 from Spohn.net
So you're talking $2000 for a 300lb loss, assuming you don't want to paint the hood and you plan on doing all of the work yourself.
Naaa, i bought my race seats for my 89 for 50$ used with everything, i will just relocate the battery to the back where weight is needed anyways, i will buy a K member for 450 but it will only save me 25-35lbs. I already have a fiberglass hood, which the stock 3rd gen hoods are fuggin ridiculous. The 3rd gens go 3000 pretty easily.
Originally Posted by Storms of War
You can get cheap racing seats, but you get what you pay for. Probably won't drop much weight either.
If its a nice car that you actually care about, drop weight the correct way. I.E. after market k-member, a-arms, a/c delete, racing seats, things like that. Don't do the friggin hillbilly no door pannels, no carpet, no interior pannels of any kind ****. That makes a car look like **** soooooo bad.
If you didn't pay much for it, and don't give a hairy rats ***, then gut the **** out of it!
If you didn't pay much for it, and don't give a hairy rats ***, then gut the **** out of it!
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From: LT1 land...the "409" of the 90s!
Don't be sold on those numbers till you are done installing them
K-Member with arms was only a 33Lbs savings.
You have seats listed twice. 38Lbs is right and not leather does not really wieght more unless you had TA seats with articulation.
A/C was not that much until you ripp the dash out and get it all.
CF PIN on hood might save that much, but not really a daily thing and pretty expensive by the time it is on the car and painted.
You also seem to forget the faster you go the more safety items you need to add. that starts putting the wieght back on.
My car with many of the stripper mods you listed hit the scales right around 3,700 and was running 10.0
So you might be asking "how the hell you you know Ellis?"
Because I ahve been there and done that
When I finally get the car back together we will have a new report. I dropped even more off the car. . . . .
K-Member with arms was only a 33Lbs savings.
You have seats listed twice. 38Lbs is right and not leather does not really wieght more unless you had TA seats with articulation.
A/C was not that much until you ripp the dash out and get it all.
CF PIN on hood might save that much, but not really a daily thing and pretty expensive by the time it is on the car and painted.
You also seem to forget the faster you go the more safety items you need to add. that starts putting the wieght back on.
My car with many of the stripper mods you listed hit the scales right around 3,700 and was running 10.0
So you might be asking "how the hell you you know Ellis?"
Because I ahve been there and done that
When I finally get the car back together we will have a new report. I dropped even more off the car. . . . .
No, the redneck way is to gut everything, bust all the windows out, leave the hood off and put black steel wheels on it. Thats how the rednecks out here do it dirt track styrl
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From: LT1 land...the "409" of the 90s!
Originally Posted by Storms of War
That sucks. How do some guys get down to 3,000lbs without completely ripping their cars apart?
Also, what does the stock K member weigh?
Also, what does the stock K member weigh?
I will have to get back to the shop and check on the wall for the K-member. I have all of it writen down
Yeah I remember reading that one article in Hot Rod or Car Craft, the one titled LS What?, quite a long time back.
That guy had even gone so far as cutting excess length off of bolts!
That guy had even gone so far as cutting excess length off of bolts!
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From: bethel PA
I lost around 242 lbs as of so far and Im still working on some stuff heres my list so far
http://www.streetlethal.net/weight/
http://www.streetlethal.net/weight/
Originally Posted by lethal93ta
I lost around 242 lbs as of so far and Im still working on some stuff heres my list so far
http://www.streetlethal.net/weight/
http://www.streetlethal.net/weight/
If you see this Brady...we need ta get ta guttin this heffer!