Toledo Pro Fiberglass can also make you some very light parts from fiberglass. Here is a link to some photos of the parts they made for me. Also, I have a Melrose Targa roof skin and I also bought a lexan rear window that saved a ton of weight.
http://www.knoxcountyfriends.com/Corvettes/Posts/3235

 

my car should be around 2800 # with me in it, im about 150 #. my new hood is only 23 # and looks scary....

 

Both the hood and bumpers look really good. How well did they fit? What other things did you do to your car to get is to that weight?

 

Whats the story on the hood? Does it still attach to the hinges or is it a pin on race piece?

 

You may want to do some forum searching because a few of us have been working on weight reduction for our cars for a couple of years. My ultimate goal is to get the car down to 2500 lbs and still drive it on the street. We modified the front end and did a custom coil over setup, removed all the non essential stuff upfront, no heater, no a/c, no smog, no factory hood, no power steering pump (looped the line), Meriere water pump, lightweight starter, relocated the battery which is now a lighter weight unit, headers, carb and intake, Aerospace 2 piece brake rotors on the front, much lighter front and rear bumper, removed the egg crates in front and rear, removed all sound deadener and insulation, carpet and pad, manual seat tracks, Melrose targa roof skin, lexan rear window, fuel cell and cromoly fuel cell mount and the list goes on and will continue until I hit 2500 lbs.

Here are some photos at different stages and when I get time I will actually include individual weights of each item and the overall savings we saw from each item.

http://www.knoxcountyfriends.com/Corvettes/Posts/3176
http://www.knoxcountyfriends.com/Corvettes/Posts/3183
http://www.knoxcountyfriends.com/Corvettes/Posts/3181
http://www.knoxcountyfriends.com/Corvettes/Posts/3179

 

See i did all the things you listed and more, the only thing i did not do yet is front brakes, i have rears since i went with a 12 bolt. My friend that helps me work on my car thinks the car is going to be around 2500 # with no driver, not so sure if it’s going to happen. i cut the crash beams on both doors, that was a little over 20 lbs I even cut the back floor and sheet it with aluminum. I know my hood is lighter than the Toledo pro hood because I had one and sold it to buy my new one. I tell you what if my car is around 2500# with no driver in it, the car is going low 8ss 4 sure with a small shot . I just don’t see how it could be that light.

Before my 12 bolt swap and gutting all the junk out of it, my car was 2980 with huge 17 inch wheels and a half tank of gas. the only thing that i had off the car was no A/C, th350, no spare tire and no pass seat, other than that everything was stock. If my car really weights 2980 # then I’m 4 sure around the 2500# mark. The only thing was the fact that the scale i used is a truck stop scale, not a track one, and I’m not sure if they read right for small cars..

Do you think they are acurate??

 

no its a pin on deal, i wanted that way , make working on the car simple

 

Hi Red,
I haven't been around for a several months cranking away on my real estate business as the housing market has gone through some fairly serious changes. I am for sure not at 2500 lbs yet but I am still on my way. I only gave a partial list of what we have done to the car. My car started out lighter than any other year C4 being that it started it's life as an 84. My Toledo hood is not the standard order 4 incher, I actually ordered a Carbon Fiber hood but they had a problem with mine and it delaminated a bit and this happened during the time when carbon fiber was getting harder to obtain so they built me an extra lightweight fiberglass version. I have added weight with a nitrous system with is roughly 30 lbs and I added a front mounted 1 gallon fuel cell and 2nd electric pump so these two items are actually adding some weight but the horsepower benefit far outweighs the added weight. I am very serious about my car eventually weighing 2500. If I find that I am within a hundred pounds of my goal I will do a new all aluminum engine to surpass my goal.

 

hey ,

i have one its a brodix , not using it this year. its for my all motor setup that i plan on building few years from now... but they are nice wish i had the money to build it

 

If you reduced the weight on a C4 down to about 2800 lbs and you add in a 340 lb driver, it would be almost pointless. I'd either say starve yourself, or lay off the fast food for awhile.

 

lol cool name hooblyboobly

 

My car is an 86 changed over to a 96LT1/4L60E along with the complete interior. It has super thin carpet with no insulation, The dash looks stock but has been gutted of all unnecessary wiring/modules with the same treatment under the hood. I wanted to do CF front clip and roof when I first started this thread but at 45+ dollars per sq. yard of material forget about it. Best alternative so far is a LS2 but no luck finding a suitable motor yet. After all the lightening so far the front rear bias is a bit messed up now and need to balance it out.

 

I made a custom dash that's super light. I have extra tops and faces that I had made. The faces were all cut on a water jet, and I don't remember the weight. I can weigh one tomorrow. I know the top only weighs 2.2 lbs. The final tops that I had made don't have any holes at all. The one in the pic has holes for the speakers and defroster.

 

Bump. I'm enjoying this thread more and more day by day. I just removed my heater and AC system, the targa panels and the rear carpets and some other misc. interior items. I'm gonna gut my dash and run analog gauges soon.

 

When the 96 dash was put in everything not necessary was removed as far as wiring modules etc. Carpet is there but no insulation manual seat tracks things like that. Im really wondering how much weight is taken off since it has 84 Z51 springs but sits nearly 2 inches higher than its suppose to.

 

My 86 weighed 3250 w/auto, A/C, iron heads and everything. It now weighs 3050 set up for BSP (SCCA) autocrossing with the top on a full tank of gas. What I changed: removed-smog stuff under the hood, radio and speakers, spare tire and carrier, power seat track on driver's side (replaced with manual track); changed-light weight starter, aluminum heads, long tube headers, 3" single exhaust, gutted cat, moved battery to box behind passenger seat, 17 x 11 wheels on all 4 corners (heavy Grand Sport look alikes, AFS) with Kumho 710s added oil cooler and power steering cooler, Sparco driver's seat.

I figure I could shave close to 200 lbs by going to a light hood (eliminating lights and going to fixed lights where the fog lights are), top and back window. An LS1 swap might net another 100 lbs. without gutting the interior and losing A/C. So, I think 2600 lbs would be doable by gutting interior and removing A/C going to super light weight battery and light wheels.

 

I'm about to lighten my C4 Corvette, I removed some carpet, then radio and speakers, muffler, and now aluminum seats weigh only 6 kg, I still think the door panels and super light battery and then spare wheel and its nearby parts I think in total 110 kg, then I have to think about what else I can remove, any advice?