I will put a racing shell seat in and all other seats will come out for race days. The dash will be fiberglass and some wiring and such out. I will also have a lexan windshield since the current one is toast.

I know the total weight will be tough as will the F/R balance weight with the headlights, A/C and heat and the other amenities it will be tough!

Sterling Doc wrote:

I have a '86 as well and had a very hard time getting the weight off. I was about 60 lbs over even without any interior or door glass. I had cut the dash down a bit and removed all the hvac stuff, as well as windshield wipers, headlights, and anything street related and was still heavy. I weigh 160 race ready so nothing I could lose there. This last winter I got more serious and cut out most anything I didn't need, including gutting the doors down to just shells, minimal dash, lexan windshield, miscellaneous wiring and any bracket not needed. With 6 gallons of gas, a fire extinguisher and fire system, and no coolshirt cooler I am 8 lbs under. Now I can run ballast of steel plates weighing 2lbs each I stack in the passenger footwell.

Having said all that, one of our guys, Sid, drove his full street legal car weighing I think 2900lbs race ready and him and I would have great battles, usually with him beating me.

If you come west and race with us in Nor Cal, and we'd love to have you, I don't think it will make much difference at Thunderhill, and only slightly at Infineon. with it's hills and quick direction changes.

Yep it sounds like the car (and driver will be very overweight.

I am going to start another thread on some ideas I have but need help on. One of my thoughts was how the rules are interpreted when it comes to optional items. For example if you can remove the A/C then I suppose you can change anything in the A/C system if desired? Same with the heat? My thoughts are that I might ditch the stock compressor for a lightweight one, or get rid of a lot of the ducting and just control a much reduced system manually. etc...