[hayden55]

When doing weight reduction the main question you have to ask yourself is: "How uncomfortable are you comfortable with being?"
But yes I agree. In my mustang pwr/wt is a huge advantage in weight reduction, but fuel economy is almost negligible sadly. Most people say for every 10% you reduce, you will pick up 2-3% in FE. But do oddball things like delete passenger wiper, passenger mirror, drain wiper fluid, strip trunk. Are you carrying passengers? Strip seats appropriately. I have taken the carpet out of my 96 and it isn't sound deaden like newer cars so it doesn't weigh much. These cars are already fairly basic so there isn't much free weight loss, and they are so cheap that you can't really afford to buy lighter stuff so they are kinda in weight loss limbo. lol
For the hood you can cut out the lower support structure. That was 18lb on the 05-14 mustangs.