forensicsteve

Has anybody had any success in reducing the weight of this 3800 pound automobile. I know there is a rear seat delete kit but the weight loss is about 50 pounds only. Having a procharger installed next week, so I assume I will actually be adding weight. Anybody get theiirs down to 3500 lbs or less?

bl1nk

It really all depends on how much you want to strip down your car.. I mean if you want to go hardcore, take out the back seat, all the door panels, insulation and padding, the passenger seat, the shaker system if you have it, the electric driver seat if you have it, and the spare tire and jack and that should get you at about.. Id say.. 3400 or so.. sound about right guys? Some other guys like the carbon fiber stuff and theres a few pounds to shave off here and there with that stuff.

moosestang

How much do you weigh?

You can remove the front swaybar and replace the radiator support with a lighter one from BMR, but the rear seat removal will probably net you more loss. There's lots of useless metal you could remove for drag racing, like the inner fenders for one. Removing the AC should help as well.

I would start with the rear seat and spare tire/jack and go from there.

CrazyAl

Here is a great earlier thread about weight savings.

https://mustangforums.com/m_1514960/tm.htm

moosestang

Smaller, lighter racing rims should have been at the top of my list.

moosestang

I forgot stock mufflers! The Ford racing mufflers are much lighter.

bl1nk

Straight pipes are even lighter than those

Yeah I didnt even go into depth with all the mechanical metal stuff you can take out... Id hate myself if I said the wrong thing and then you took it out and got in a wreck or something because of it. So as far as suspension and all that stuff dont listen to me... but all the stuff on the inside can be gutted if youre serious about weight reduction.. all those motors in the door for power windows and door locks etc.. yeah.. extra weight.

Black06GT40324

i don't know about you. . . but i perfer to leave the weight reduction stuff to the ricers

i like running my time on full weight, just the way i will be on the street. . .

when all's said and done, 300 lbs may get you 2 to 3 tenths, but is it really worth it. . .

just remember, we have a lot more torque than those 4 bangors, so weight reduction doesn't help us as much as it helps the less torquey cars . . . just my .02

bl1nk

I actually plan on adding more weight because of mods.. unfortunately my car isnt strictly a track car, so I cant focus on weight reduction and all that good stuff. Itd be different if I could gut it and put a cage and a racing seat in it...

wakebord99

Problem is that cars in general are getting heavier every day. Look at the new BMW 335i, now BMW claims to use weight saving materials such as magnesium composite engine blocks, almuinum sub-frame, alot of aluminum drivetrain parts.. and you know how much that car is going to weigh? Almost 3700 lbs wet.

There is only so much you can do. Replace the entire front end with carbon fiber, along with your trunk lid. Replace all your glass with a racing equivolent, change your drive shaft for a 1 peice aluminum, so on and so fowarth. I bet with all that you can even get our cars to a fighting weight of about 3100 lbs. Maybe even compete with a vette at that rate. But do you really want to go through all that?