It's been a while since I've updated our progress. Time just seems to fly these days. Sheesh.
We spent another winter shedding weight of the truck. The first thing we did was haul out the seats and slider frame. I found a bomber looking seat that fit pretty well. Made a pair of custom brackets and called it good. This was good for about 95lbs.
The next thing we did was trim all the fat off the doors and replaced the windows with red plexiglass. This netted us about 27lbs per door.
We hauled out the back window and made a plexiglass replacement for it too. It looks cool and all but it's sucks to drive in the dark.
Last thing we did was replace the steel back wheels with some aluminum ones. I took a shine to the wheels that mbrunson427 had made for his Mustang so I called Bogart and had a pair made. It took 4 months to get em but damn are they nice! Dropped about 17lbs per wheel.
And after all that, we FINALLY got our ten second time slip. Just barely.
Note how the 60' foot time is missing? This is because the truck wheelies waaaay past the 60' beams now. Especially after a light spray of VHT. The few time slips I've got with a 60' time show in the 1.41 range. So this is where we're at now. We're working on limiting straps (expired harnesses) to shorten the front axle drop. Will post a few pics when we get it figured out.