My 68 is all steel with full dash. All glass windows steel
Hood and deck lid. Iron small block Dana 60 rear
8 pt mild steel cage. Ladder bar and coil over. Lightweight lithium battery. 3140 race weight with 250 lb driver
4 corner lightweight brakes. 3 gallon fuel cell. All
Steel bumpers with all bracing. Stock hood hinges SS style hood steel floor and firewall.

 

My 68 is all steel with full dash. All glass windows steel
Hood and deck lid. Iron small block Dana 60 rear
8 pt mild steel cage. Ladder bar and coil over. Lightweight lithium battery. 3140 race weight with 250 lb driver
4 corner lightweight brakes. 3 gallon fuel cell. All
Steel bumpers with all bracing. Stock hood hinges SS style hood steel floor and firewall.

Pretty light. My car is 3180 but that's with a mid frame turbo, intercooler, SR front skinnies and MT 325 DRs. I'm ladder bar too. Is that with bias tires front and rear?

 

Guessing I need a better scale place...3420 with my 220# in it. WTF?
All steel except hood, all stock glass and trim
Weld ProStars, 10gal plastic cell, Stock interior (But just went Kirkey's in front, GW control arms, and coil-overs)

Maybe next time I'm out I'll hit the scale...need to find another place.

 

Yeah so you are 2890 car weight, that's great.

I'd like to get my car weight to 2800 from 2980, but when I do the math I think I can get to 2850:

• Block swap to LC9, -105 lbs
• Swap front SR skinnies to bias tires, not sure weight drop, -20 I'm thinking for both
• SRC front steer rack and column swap, not sure weight drop, -30 I'm thinking
• Cut out and box up the firewall heater wing areas, not sure weight drop, guessing very little, 5 lbs is my guess
• I do not want to do pin-on trunk or hood for now, am running Glasstek fiberglass for both

I already have:

• SRC control arms, AFCO front shocks
• No front inner fenders
• Bolt on fiberglass hood, cowl panel and trunk lid, Glasstek
• 2 Kirkeys
• 10 pt mild steel
• Gutted dash
• R Rhodes front core support
• turbo fender exhaust
• 15 plastic fuel cell, ladder bar, full tubs, Ford 9"
• No headliner, partial carpeting

 

The 2 biggest weight savings in my car was the switch to lightweight brakes. That was 60 lbs. The lithium battery weighs 8 lbs so almost a 25 lb savings there. Fuel is 7 lbs a gallon so a smaller fuel cell will save some weight. I only keep 2 gallons in the cell for a run. Heads up run one gallon. Water is 8 lbs per gallon. My whole cooling system holds less that 2 1/2 gallons. Heads up run I dump a half gallon. my minimum weight is 3120. A big 3 core can hold double that amount of water. I run 6 qts of oil in my engine. Right now i have a 10 lb weight box in the trunk with no weight in it.
All 4 window's are still operable in my car too. I have no aftermarket body panels either. all original GM stuff

 

Yeah I have Strange brakes on all 4 corners, car originally had manual drums.

I could probably run less fuel, might be worth tracking how much I have in the cell. I can street drive my car so I run a full cooling system.

I'm still running all stock glass but I know a buddy made his rear windows fixed and made some sort of lightweight structure to hold them in place.

I think i'd be 3100 with me if I didn't have the turbo stuff.

I have the front bumper and brackets off too.

 

@sscamaro2485 any other ideas to drop weight? Someone suggested I take a wizzer wheel and cut off misc brackets. I can't remember Vinnie's screen name with the Nova but he always had some interesting ideas. They got that Nova super light.

 

How bad you want it ?
Can do inner body panels also ?

 

Are you trying to get it down to a certain weight ?

 

I'd like to get some day get to 3000 raceweight (200 lb driver).

Thanks Jeb, that's Vinnie's build thread. I need to re-read it at some point.

 

https://www.yellowbullet.com/threads/1970-nova-weight-loss-winter-upgrades.2682932/page-17

 

Could always just get a 1970-73 vega notch and then you would be lighter when you start lol just kidding.

 

Tube sub frame ?

60# less ?

 

Yeah I've looked at the Smith Race Craft front subframe. I've never messed with motor plates before so I'm holding off. I'll save that for the 4.99 or bust phase of the car.