Weight reduction

[dave_90_blazer]

I am planing a V8 swap into a second gen 2wd truck(not sure what year yet, haven't bought one) and I am thinking of what I can do to drop weight, it will be a street/strip truck, but mainly strip

I am planing on:
pulling the interior
running 2 race seats
aluminum dash
a cage (and using a lexan/plexi rear window)
fiberglass hood
remove the inner wheelwells
pull OE fuel tank
fuel cell in bed
battery in bed
strip all un-needed stuff under the hood
lightweight race wheels(skinnies in front, 10" or more in rear)

I am going to try to find a manual lock/window truck

are there impact bars in the doors?

anything else you can think off to pull?


guesses on final weight with a SCB(450hp 355 for now) and 700R4(built)?

 

[Jagged]

I don't know if it's dried up mud, but my 95 blazer's crossmember looked like it had cement in it That'd be some weight redux.

Other things to remove: HVAC, stereo (speakers), Plastic exterior crap, maybe find yourself a fiberglass rollpan, hitch (if equipped), tailgate, power mirrors (if equipped, sway for regular), "extra" hardware (exhaust hangars, etc), headlights (switch from sealed beam to composite if possible), intake manifold (go aluminum), aluminum heads, lightweight race starter, extra crap behind your dash (rest of the HVAC system), carpeting (get rid of all that insulation).

That's about all I can think of right now.