Complete: 1MZ-FE V6 engine swap - For Sale

Everything I don't need is coming out.

I weighed my doors, w/window and wo/door panel, manual windows and door locks, it weighs ~60 lbs. The crash bar inside the door weighs ~10 lbs. My doors now weight ~50 lbs (still heavy). As soon as I can afford it, I'll be getting race seats and adding a bunch of weight back in the car with a roll cage.

 

Here's the peices I cut out of the doors:

 

They are the full length of the door and 8" wide. I'm not sure what gauge the metal is, but they are just under 3/32" thick. These same bars on 2nd gen. Firebirds weight 19 lbs. (much longer door)

The ONLY reason I cut these out is because it is a track car and the roll-cage will have side bars. I do not recommend anyone cutting these out or removing the steel from the front and rear bumper as I did on a car that will be driven on the street. I guess that’s my disclaimer

 

10 lbs per door. Not as much as I was hoping for, but an easy 20 lbs total removed from the car.

 

Thanks, I'll check out the site about the windows.

As for the headlight assembly, I’m already 1 step ahead on you. I was looking at an extra assembly I have and I planned to gut the whole thing and just make an aluminum bracket to hold the door in place since I don’t really need headlights. I need to keep some of the headlight bracket since it holds the grill in place, unless I also make some aluminum brackets for that. Even the headlight brackets alone are heavy. I also might replace a portion of the drivers side headlight door with some wire mesh and use it to duct in air for the intake.

 

I finished the brackets for my front bumper, so my front bumper is a lot lighter now. Basically it is just the bumper cover and a few peices of aluminum for the brackets. I'm working on the rear bumper right now. This should save about 50 lbs.

Bumper mounted:


Bumper bracket:



Do not try this at home.

 

I haven't gotten anywhere on the brace yet, that is probably next. I already have an idea on what I want to try, just need the time.

I haven't made any cuts yet. The car is mainly used for auto-cross, so the speeds aren;t high enough to worry about aero. If I go to a road course, I'll have to add extra bracing to support the bumper. Someday I do want to make some removable block-off plates fo rthe holes in the bumper, and a removable spoiler and splitter. The splitter wouldn't be a good idea for auto-cross.

 

update: 2/11/08

So I have built a custom front strut tower bar (pix to come).
I completely gutted the interior except for the dash.
Summit Polyethylene seats on the way (these have got to be lighter than the stock GTS seats).
Quaife LSD ordered.
Autopower rollcage ordered.

 

My seats arrived the other day and I just picked up my Quaife LSD. It is a thing of beauty!!! So the engine and tranny come out this weekend and the new seats go in.