Saw the weight saving post over on the FE Forum.......

[turbohunter]

I hate you both

[TomP]

Sounds like a unanimous decision, Jay (aka: Fatso) needs to get down to 140 lbs and leave the chrome bumpers. 

If he stops eating right now he could be down to that by next DragWeek... if he lives.

[jayb]

Sheesh, this thread is beginning to look like a post on Facebook, not the FE Power forum...

[Drew Pojedinec]

Hey, all I did was offer to drive a car......  sheesh, someone ought to benefit from my diminutive stature.

[jayb]

You're dreamin', buddy    Besides, I tried letting other people drive my cars in the lead up to Drag Week 2012.  Result was two broken cars.  Not going there again...

[machoneman]

Sheesh, this thread is beginning to look like a post on Facebook, not the FE Power forum...

LOL, now that's funny!

[Barry_R]

I'll drive one of your's   

I'll even volunteer a centrally located repair and preparation facility...

[cjshaker]

I hate you both

Don't hate the player, hate the game 

[babybolt]

Here's a link to a thread about weight reduction on 69stang:

http://1969stang.com/forum/index.php?/topic/48440-69-mustang-coupe-lexan-windows-and-lightweight-mods/?hl=weight

This website used to have a link to a list of 69/70 Mustang component weights, but it disappeared when they upgraded the website hosting site.

[TomP]

You also need to consider the requirements of the class or the car will get thrown in Unlimited which may take a bit more tweaking on the engine.

Lots of weight can be saved by replacing little things. Make aluminum brackets instead of steel, etc. Joel probably knows all about that stuff. I think the car could shed a hundred of so fairly easily. I took 75 pounds off the front of my Fairlane after it was already finished and it still has all the stock heavy brakes and all the same body parts as it had before. I made the hood prop rod from aluminum tube instead of solid steel rod, mini starter, mini alternator, aluminum center ATI damper, aluminum alternator brackets, plastic sealed beams, fewer and lighter fender bolts, etc.

100 places to take a pound out.

[FE Jonny]

I did some doors and a truck bed by cutting out the metal and laminating with carbon fiber sheet. I smoothed it all out with glass, I also did the back of the cab and front fenders that way. I lost a few hundred pounds of metal all together with sheeting out the whole truck in .032 carbon sheeting and cutting out the large flat areas of the body. I also did an aluminum floor and lost a lot of weight there. The nice thing about sheeting with carbon fiber is you keep the integrity of the steel frame but loose a lot of weight with the removal of the lage flat area. Once I was done you could not even tell it was cut out and sheeted.

[babybolt]

Thread on Yellowbullet about fasteners:

http://www.yellowbullet.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1588770

[Redstrat]

Trying hard to recall what Ford race cars had a strap to raise & lower the door window glass?....... Not sure where the lift mechanism and window tracks stop/start on Mustang but there's some weight in metal there..

This is my first post here. I'm assembling a 390 for my brother-in-law. Anyway... I have done upholstery work for a living. Several years back I worked on a Olds where I remove the window regulators, notched and rolled a slot in the interior trim, and used seat belts to fasten the windows in the up position. I think we took about 30lbs off the car. I saw this done on super stock cars back in the 70's.

[cjshaker]

Chrysler actually did this to a few of their super lightweight cars back in the '60s. If I remember right, they only made about 10 of them, but then again it seems that they made about 10,000 1of10 cars.
They just used 2 button snaps on the door panel, one for up and one for down. Seems like a really good way to save weight. But to be fair, Ford was doing this 50 years before Chrysler

[turbohunter]

but then again it seems that they made about 10,000 1of10 cars.

Funny as hell and true.