My Mav on the scales

what type of ac compressor do you have?

 

Yup...

Its a Sanden Mini Compressor.

 

Lose the exhaust it isn't needed and its heavy! Just kidding of course.

 

You have a point though. These FM Super 44's are heavy. I have a plan to replace with smaller Borla XR-1 mufflers.

 

I have super44s also. I hate them. Too much resonance.

Why are you going to Borla XR-1s?

 

Before it was size and sound and now for their weight.

 

Your car weight sounds pretty good to me. My "race only" Maverick is a little on the chunky side, without me and 5gal of 114 in the cell it weighs 3125, and it is pretty much 50/50...................there is 100lbs of lead in the rear crossmember left over from the B/SM days.
It has a fiberglass hood, I put the steel bumpers back on, it had fiberglass both front and rear, the window roll down machanics have been taken out, it only has one seat................I guess the 408 with aluminum heads is heavy, but the Powerglide is pretty light, aluminum drive shaft and 9" rear..................then you have ladder bars, all the subframe connections, roll cage, support for subframe in the rear.......................but it will still get down the 1/4 under 10sec.....................Personally I don't mind and all the carpeting in the interior keeps it from being too noisy inside.
For a family car I think it's fine...........................IMHO

 

what do you have for front disk brakes. id recomned some aluminum caliper brakes that use aluminum hubs. like willwood, aerospace, or cnc brakes. there should be at least 20lbs of unsprung front weight saveings if you are useing factory disk brakes.

doe you have a roll cage with door bars? if so then cut the crash beams out of the doors. those are susposed to be around 40lbs. thats about in the middle of the car so it shouldnt effect where the center balance of the car.

look into a ligher battery like an odyssey battery http://www.odysseybattery.com/ . they have some really light weith powerfull batterys. they are expensive but really good batterys.

what are you using for seats? there are alot of light weight racing seats out there.

do you have a cage? is it cromolly. if you have mild steel cage, have it replaced with a cromolly one. they are about half the weight.
you can replace the mastercylinder with a aluminum master cylinder. theres a few pounds there.

 

just looked back at your build thread. i see you do have willwood brakes so ignore that sugestion.

 

passenger door

in side the passenger dor its a big heavy rail some pounds!!! good luck

 

Its a 72, there are not supposed to be door bars in them.

So far, I can drop weight with a Mini starter, Alu Master Cylinder (ordered), Alu flywheel, (ready to be installed), Alu driveshaft, lighter battery, Alu radiator core support, CF cowl hood, and mufflers. These are all easy enough except for the core support. I might chicken out on that one.

 

you could also start swiss cheesing the inner fenders and radiator support. if you dimple die the holes then the strength would be maintained.

 

wight reduction

one way i reduce the weight of my maverick was taking out the windows sistem in side the dors and replace it i adapt one of compact car very easy find (junck yard) that way you can cut save alot of wheight , just take out the dors panels and you will see a lot of heavie parts..





QUOTE=GrabberGT;732022]Its a 72, there are not supposed to be door bars in them.

So far, I can drop weight with a Mini starter, Alu Master Cylinder (ordered), Alu flywheel, (ready to be installed), Alu driveshaft, lighter battery, Alu radiator core support, CF cowl hood, and mufflers. These are all easy enough except for the core support. I might chicken out on that one.[/QUOTE]

 

Wow mine only weighted 2695 lbs ,with about 6 gal of fuel,full interior,exhaust to rear end

 

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