Weight savings

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That was one. Just the outer one. It seems to have plenty of support with just the inner straight bracket, but that one needs to be trimmed of a bunch of excess metal. I'll have to pull it out and see how hard it would be to make something smaller.
 
Actual weight. Total 7.54lb.
Left outer 3.82lb.
Right outer 3.72lb.
Right is missing threaded tab for fender support
 
Now you just need to find 10 more things like that to gain a tenth.
 
I'm on my way. I want to get a lot of it off the front end, try to get it to rise quicker. OHH, I have to see what torsion bars are on the front.
 
now your on the right track norm. one of the first things i did years ago was loose the inner brackets on my car (they weighed more than the outer ones) then i windowed out the brackets for further savings. a little here and a little there will get you down on weight. torsion bars are a good place to look for weight transfer and weight savings. look for 72-older slant six without air bars. they were the smallest you could get without shelling out for the new drag bars. does the car have sway bar? remove it, and all the brackets. swap the arms out for ones without the tabs on them. the k-frame idea is good, but my experience is that when boxing back in, you sometimes add weight too, but 80% of the time you'll loose weight. a good place there is the seams where the to halves are welded. cut the seams, weld it all together. a hole saw here will work too.

--chad

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I need to measure the torsion bars, it probably has the v8 ones still in it. No sway bar stuff is on the car. Pulling the inner brackets would probably be a good idea, as they are much bigger, but while I have the outters out, I will make some swiss cheese. :salut:
 
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