What r Some simple Deletes to make My 87 Stang Lighter with little Appearance Change?

[Manewaymja2]

1987 Stang 302 5.0 Stock. What are some deletes i can do to make my car lighter without tearing the guts out of here? I want the Stock factory look as much as possible.

 

[347HO]

Tubular Kmember
Tubular control arms, front and back
Tubular bumpers
Front sport seats
Lightweight performance brakes front and back
Lightweight wheels and tires
Spare tire, jack and accessories
Manual transmission

Just a few without changing the engine parts.

 

[criticman]

In addition to the jack, remove the sound dampening crap in the trunk/hatch area. Someone on here has done a full breakdown (list and weight of items) showing what can be removed and how much weight it saves you. I believe the sound padding was like 15-20 lbs.

 

[StreetDreamsGT]

Here's two links:

First one is all about weight reduction and includes some weights of the items.
http://forums.stangnet.com/515369-w...ons-lets-try-get-least-one-response-here.html

The second one is, I believe, the one critic man is talking about...with the weights of a lot of items on your car and the weights of some lighter aftermarket items.
http://forums.stangnet.com/704713-g...ome-parts-t5-stock-hood-fender-heads-etc.html

 

[85_SS_302_Coupe]

Tubular Kmember
Tubular control arms, front and back
Tubular bumpers
Front sport seats
Lightweight performance brakes front and back
Lightweight wheels and tires
Spare tire, jack and accessories
Manual transmission

Just a few without changing the engine parts.

All that plus:

aluminum heads
manual steering
light weight battery
rip out the carpet, remove the sound deadening and carpet backing, reinstall the carpet so it looks stock but will be much lighter
fiberglass hood and trunk lid (or if you've got the cash, carbon fiber)
gut the trunk of all paneling and carpet (works best in a coupe since you can't see it)
when you remove things like power steering, A/C, emissions junk etc, make sure you remove the entire section of wiring harness that went with it.

 

[dcurtis]

dog bone on the rear end.

 

[347HO]

dog bone on the rear end.

Hell yes!
That's approximately 12lbs there... maybe more.

Good one

 

[bynummustang]

Eat less. Delete the fatty foods.

 

[Strype]

a/c compressor and smog pump. You'll "look" like you got a/c


Sway bar
Jack
Spare tire


You can buy an aluminum driveshaft too.

 

[Sicarius428]

For deletes, stereo including the speakers, sound deadening, dogbone, smong, ac, heater, manual rack swap, gt fog light brackets, swap bumper brackets to tubular front and rear... but don't get hit or hit anything. spare tire/jack, lightweight battery, sway bar or swap to tubular.... those are the cheap ones. For the non budget friendly... Heads will save about 50 lbs. fiberglass hood will save a bit, tubular kmember and a arms, people say fiberglass hear hatch but the glass alone is still really heavy and not much weight savings for the price, swapping brakes and switching to 99+ gt calipers.
Kevin

 

[85_SS_302_Coupe]

With the fiberglass hatch, i have yet to see one that actually lets you keep a glass window...so if you went with lexan in the rear you would drop a TON of weight.