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Originally Posted by Frank Lee
Back in the '80's Hot Rod magazine had a series of articles where they stripped weight from some otherwise stock car, ultimately ending up with no body whatsoever; IIRC just the firewall and dashboard. My cousin did that to some heap he had access to and I'm told nobody, NOBODY could touch him in a drag race.
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Are you thinking of the Sport Compact article where they chop up a Sentra until it's a floorpan with wheels? (I had a link to it, but it appears to have died). IIRC, they reduced the 1/4-mile time from something like 17 seconds to 14.
Hot Rod did a Duster drag car with significant weight reduction, replacing body panels with fiberglass, etc.
They dropped nearly 600 lbs and included cost per pound lost.
