this is mostly for the guys who have gone all out. i was wondering what you guys have gotten your cars down to and what it took to get it there. if anyone has a car with carpet, full plastics, dash, and regular glass windows it wold be perfect.
i know we have gone through this before, but i am gonna bestarting my next drag project soon and i need a plan. the car has to remain street legal, which means real glass all the way around, and class rules call for matching front seats and a "full" interior. fiberglass body panels are legal.

thanks
tim

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Do the road course and autocross cars get weighed with drivers or just the car?

Mine isn't street legal but would be a good comparison car to use.

The weight is going to change next seaon but at the end of the 2001 race season my car was around 3250 with me in it, race ready. I'm about 170 pounds. And that's with a big block.

Full glass, no fiberglass parts except the hood. Interior is completely gutted out.

Matching front seats can still be light. Get 2 race buckets and install them. Full interior doesn't have to be functional. Stock Eliminator cars have "full interior" except they're allowed to remove the rear seats as long as carpet covers any exposed metal.

You can remove all the speakers and put the plastic grills back over the openings. Heater controls can stay in the dash but remove everything behind them. Same goes for the instrument panel. Having all the gauges in place looks stock but none of them have to work. Carpeting looks stock but pull the insulation out from under it. If you can remove the heater and AC, then do it. If not then find some way to convert to just a heater system and remove everything you don't need from under the dash. Remove the front and rear crash bumpers from behind the plastic bumpers. Remove the crash bar from the inside of the doors. Plastic headlights can shave off a tiny bit more weight.

From the sounds of it, you want to try and make a drag car that could fit into a Stock Eliminator" type class (except the part about fiberglass body parts being legal) although I know you're not.

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fiberglass body panells? Where can you get them? How much wieght would that shed?

I seen front caps that where fiberglass but that was the nose and fenders all together as one piece. Before I paint mine I'd like to put fiberglass fenders and nose on mine. But I haven't seen any that look stock.

 

My car is 3025# w/o me in it. I have removed the P/S, all smog and factory exhaust, all air cond. equip gone. My heater fan and controls are gone, but I left the heater core, and kept up with all the heater related parts in case I ever wanted to put it back in the car . But the biggest diif in my car than most is that it came almost completely stripped from the factory. My car has manual windows/locks, no tilt, no map lights in the rearview mirror, and no auto. trunk release. Being that my car was so stripped, it only weighed 3265# a LONG time ago, when it was just about completely stock, so I had an advantage from the get-go. It has a Harwood bolt hood, Centerline Convo Pro wheels. I plan on taking out the front and rear inner bumpers and door impact beams in the future. It does still have a full interior, and a functioning CD player, and I still drive a good bit on the street.

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My '87 IROC weighes 3200# w/o me. It has all the interior intact. Aluminum heads and fiberglass hood were the big weight savers. Removed the sway bar up front too. Oh, the A/C compressor is off too, rest of A/C is intact. Also, no smog parts, no ECM or ECM harness.

I weighed it in KY and in AZ, same!! Pretty good scales at the tracks.

 

About 3350 w/ me.....3150 w/o me! Car is a plain 91 RS model with no power anything. Only options were the 16 wheels and intermittent wipers. Removed front swaybar, steering brace, smog pump, A.I.R. tubing and valve, back seats, and spare tire. Lightweight mods I've added: AFR aluminum heads, fiberglass "SS" style hood, Dynabatt battery(16lbs w/ holddown), CSI mini starter (7lbs) and Centerline skinnies up front for track. Everything else still intact. No way I'm taking my AC out!

 

I weighed my car this season, and with full interior, no cage, all heater stuff, aftermarket gauges (autometer ultra lite) and a motor with light rods pistons and aluminum heads it weighed in at 3515 with me in it. Full tank of gas also. I have taken out all interior insulation from under the carpet, have taken all the heater stuff out including duct work, blower motor, all un necessary wiring, and factory seats and seatbelts. I plan to remove bumper supports soon, and maybe all of this will save me some weight. Hopefully, since I am putting a 10 pt cage in this winter.

 

My 92 Z28 complete as it came from the factory w/o spare and jack and with SFCs, strut tower brace, boltons etc weighed in at 3688 lbs w 1/4 tank or less and 220-230 lb driver. Ill be adding alum parts where I can, removing AC since I hardly ever use it and when I do, it makes my temps flirt with over heating, and adding a fiberglass hood to help shave a lil weight off to get me closer to 12s(IF possible)....

 

About 3570 lbs with driver and a full tank of gas.

It's a 92 Formula, L98, T-tops, power everything, donut spare, nothing taken out. As it sits its probably closer to 100 lbs less. Fiberglass hood, no spare, took sone reinforcements out of the dash, backseat removed.

It should be even lighter after my mods comming up soon. The LT1 intake is lighter than the TPI, I'm going to do AC and maybe heater delete. I have to keep the smog stuff to pass visual inspection (damn California). Though I am going to add subframes. I'm just going to try to get the car down to 3400lbs with driver and fuel (**** if I could lose 40lbs off of the driver it would be easier... LOL)