What's your budget, Paulie? What are your end goals for the car? For a bracket car, best bang for the buck is in lightening up rotating parts and unsprung weight. How about a carbon fiber drive shaft? A Wilwood kit up front would help. Heck, why not a straight front axle why were at it? Replacing the flat glass pieces with Lexan would help. The door windows could be done like the T-bolts ditching the crank and regulators. Fiberglass body panels, not sure what's available. There's a bunch to be had inside a C6 too.
There is no budget. Like most guys I just buy things as I go along. I try to make sensible purchases, though. I guess none of what we do really makes "sense" anyway. If it did we'd just run turbo'd LS's or ultimately just buy an electric car. That'd be faster and simpler and more economical.
Still, I do have an idea of what I want so your point is well taken. End goal is to have fun. I do intend to run 10's in street trim at some point. A 10.99 would be fine. I want my car to look fairly stock on the outside. I even run '65 Galaxie hubcaps on my Weld wheels sometimes (They're pretty light). The Cougar is stripped and pretty brutal for
most people under 50.
The C6 is rollerized and full manual. Still a good C4 would likely gain me a tenth or maybe 15 hundredths.
I hate straight axles. Sorry gasser guys. Whatever weight is saved is negated by the horrendous aerodynamics, if you go over 100 anyway. Plus all the other issues like wacky handling and poor visibility.
I am thinking I will concentrate on the front half of the car. I would love to find a fiberglass (front) bumper. Fiberglass fenders and hood would be great, but I don't know if they are cost effective, for the weight loss. I also would like to do the lexan side windows and remove the window guts. An aluminum radiator sounds good too, as I can improve cooling at the same time as reducing weight. Also, the front brakes sound like a good idea to save a considerable amount of weight up front while improving stopping power. I'll also put my plastic bucket seats in and not put in my roll bar.
So in order I think I will do:
1) Look for a fiberglass bumper
2) Aluminum radiator
3) Thin lexan side windows with strap to raise and lower.
4) lightweight front disc brakes.
Question: Does anybody know if '67 Mustang side (coupe) windows and '67 Cougar side windows are the same? I think they are, but I am not sure. That would make getting the lexan easier.
Thanks for all the ideas!
paul