it's a little difficult to operate the balance beam from inside the cab

 

I went into the office where they gave me my ticket while weighing, but wit me and my wife it was 5120, back of tools and brick loaded woman satchel of a purse included..lol.

 

dunno haha just calculating what it actually weighs..

 

Tailgate i worth 40 lbs at track... I weighed on a 2nd scale. 4800 with tailgate on and 4760 without. Both without me in it, I go a whopping 160-165

 

Anybody know what these horn things are actually for? I don't want them off for weight reduction, just that my heat exchanger is near impossible to get in there with those things hanging in the way.

 

I think for crash/impact purposes.

 

Last time i was at Sar over a year ago, i believe my truck was 4500 with no tail gail or spair. This was before i went full bolt ons an roll pan, had 20s all the way around.

 

In general, are trucks with weight reduction kinda looked down on? I've read a few threads and seen where people kinda **** on a guy for taking weight out of the truck. I got kinda crazy with the weight reduction on my extended cab truck and my cousin's S10. Both had cammed 6.0L's, so nothing special under the hood. We couldn't afford to buy nice heads or nitrous kits, so we started pulling out weight on both. No rear seats, no spare, relocated battery, S10 got Lexan windows, lightened the steering column in both, gutted the doors on the S10. Neither were daily drivers, but both were street driven just as they raced. We were just doing the best we could with what we had under the hood. After reading some of the threads, I'm kinda embarrassed to show up to the LS1Truck raceday with any of our gutted trucks.

 

No matter what you do, no matter how you do it...some one(s) out there will find a way to look down on it, so don't worry about it and keep your head up.

I will be there and I won't look down on you, hell I'm impressed that you're doing what you can with what you have to make your truck as fast as you can with out making it unsafe.

Hell go to my thread here and look at what I think about weight reduction, I already shed over 305 lbs off my truck and it was only 2 days old.

https://www.performancetrucks.net/fo...d.php?t=476234

 

There's no shame in having a stripped down truck.

I took my truck to the city dump and got 5420 with me in it(150 lbs). I wonder if that weight is accurate? Silver-mod-o weighed 39XX, so about 1400 lbs for my tires lift kit and 4wd junk???