I don't know if most people realize the amount of work this really is. Nice job

Love the frequent Birdsong uploads lately!

Chris mentions all the extra radiators he was running trying to cool this beast, what about all the extra COOLANT he won't be carrying around anymore? Might not be much in terms of weight but every little bit helps! Enjoyed the video!

I love patina too, I remember the biuld series and love that you found matching panels.

Not boring at all! This is hot rodding gold! This is ingenuity at its finest! Making what you have work better towards a goal is worthy work. Thanks for sharing your expertise, I think anyone who has an interest in the hobby will gain something useful from this.

I hope he gets patina so dialed in and then at the last second Yanks all the mods off and bolts it into Daisy and restores patina to new cuz that is one sexy car. But I have to admit I'm in love with Daisy. There's something about that color and the mods that he originally did and the way that car sat that is way more aggressive looking. And this is my love letter to Daisy😂🎉❤🤣🤣💗

Cooling systems are as good as the shroud around them, that actually forces air through them, rather than around them.

The Wheeels tho! those are perfect im looking at ordering a set brand new for my 77 Chevy Nova. my father still have his set of 14" daysis that was on our 75 Nova SS when my mother bought it in 87! 👍

Definitely not a boring video brother. Rock on 🤘

The womans ear to ear smile at the end of the video was priceless!

After watching your MAGIC SHOW for 3 years ( intently) and binge watching (maybe 8 years back) you don't vease to amaze......I hope that you get it to 3350 and counting.....love your content when it is there.....

Enjoyed it Chris!

This video, charger finds, carb tuning video and vacuum engine tuning... So when are you going to start your DVD tv show series? I'd buy it! This information is extremely valuable to every muscle car. Just so happens he's working on the coolest of them all so win win 🤘😎

You can also lower the center of gravity by adding weight low. I know it sounds a little crazy but the old trans Am series scca trick was using house wide or shallow expanding window foam inside frame rails etc. increasing structural rigidity by up to 30% and also making the vehicle safer if it gets hit. And the foam is a lot lighter but the benefits are awesome 👍. Don't have to but it's something to look into.

Forgot ur K frame weight amd Alllll the fuilds - coolent & oils - And u moved the AC weight moved lower. Love this!

Nice work! Some additional ideas: aluminum driveshaft, lighter seats, delete crash bars in doors… so many possibilities 😅

If i ever have an old mopar again i think id look into getting rid of the rear steer. Put a steering rack on it. Then switch to a rear sump pan. Exhaust fits better also.

The old Chargers are cool but they aren't cheap or plentiful these days. Whats nice is the mopar has a modern rwd platform that are plentiful. Hemi powered to. The charger, 300m, magnum, challenger etc. Pretty good cheap car bodies. That gen 3 hemi is definitely workable. I miss my challenger already. Sold it when i moved.

I truly enjoyed your latest video Bud, you keep doing what you do.... I'll keep watching, and I get motivated to go out and work on my own cars too. 👍🏽

On the oil cooler; I live in Florida plus- I drive 5 hours home to see the folks every chance I get and I exceed the posted limits, so for me, the oil cooler works. It's also not the only " cooler" I run, because, Nascar.

Talk about "push". I have had cars with so much horse power (1970 SS 396 Chevelle with built large oval port .30 over 454) it did not matter what direction the tires where turned. With the throttle far enough to the floor my car was going in what ever direction the front nose was pointing in.

I have a factory light weight 1999 WRX Type RA (Race Altered). Thinner glass, alloy panels, no sound deadening, or under seal. A foam rear seat. 2557lb's with 30 litres of petrol. 400hp, all wheel drive. Light cars can fuckin' dance, man, you are doing right by that car. It would look amaze balls painted in the original colour. The patina look just looks like laziness, to me. Spend the money where you have, first, absolutely, but finish it with a killer turquoise paint job.

This video really lets one appreciate how much work it is to take iff one pound at a time!

I love the fact that he's literally going old school...kickass.🇺🇲

The antifreeze that was in the 4 rads will help i think 1 gallon of liquid weights about 8 pounds im not for sure but cant wait to see her all done but projects are never done

Awesome video Chris!! You put a bug in my ear with the sway bar / anti-roll bar scenario!! Thanks for that! Hopefully the big guy (VGG) will wanna watch this video!!

Very creative. Looking forward to seeing how it does at MATS.

Chris I love this car I grew up a ford guy but this car has definitely changed my thinking

Keep it coming love the content.

I used to worry about that but then I saw this Nova that had probably 150,000 1/8 inch drill bit holes drilled in the frame the a arms the inner fender Wells if you could not see it from the outside of the car it had 1/8 inch holes drilled I can only imagine how long somebody spent drilling all the holes that were in that car

The general finally has a push bar yeeeeessss

Love the content you put out Chris.

When my first box of Dynamat came to the door, I amost crapped my pants. That stuff is heavy...but, I still use it in every car.

Love your videos, very informative! Thanks for the awesome content

I may have missed you mentioning it but by removing the extra hoses and cooling devices, you are also carrying less fluid also. Every little bit helps! Nice work!

So cool Chris, patina is my favorite!

The smokey burnout pulling the Wreck Runner is awesome

On your Battery idea, I don't know if you know that they make a flat battery. That was used in the Shelby Cobra's and mounted behind the seats so maybe that style meet your needs. Looking forward to seeing it finished, maybe do a video of you chassis dyno/tunning it to see the numbers on it.

With all of the added heat exchangers, there is also the weight of the fluids too. Big old car beating up on little racecars is great. I ran my wagon 4570lbs and the only cars that could beat it were dedicated auto-x cars. One of the biggest improvements I had for turning was installing a detroit tru-trac.

Chris, if you keep removing metal you will end up with a FORD! 😂😂😂

Really cool. I like drilling holes to make things lighter. The bicycle world calls that "Drillium".

Years ago there was a very in-depth thread on Moparts about this weight reduction topic started by a member called fullmetaljacket .It really went down the rabbit hole of weight reduction, titanium bolts, etc and showed how far a street race car can go. Might be worth researching.

Love it. Especially the part about whooping the yuppies lol

On the hood springs- try using hood pins; they come with the cables to keep you from dropping/losing them & weigh next to nothing.

I love this! A little different than your other videos. Mixes it up. Also I want to do this to my modern stuff which are definitely pigs too. Great ideas. 🤘🤘🤘😎😎

From all the regular guys driving ratty muscle cars, salute 🫡 Build it your way and kick some ass 👍🇺🇸

Good stuff, Chris. Thanks for sharing.

Watched all, fascinated and got me giddy on the roidal knowledge you passed along here. Superb work!

Happy Thanksgiving 🦃 buddy

That's some cray cray Sheeeat!

I had a 1970 road runner, 383 car, I believe it weighed 3,900 lbs, it was not fast by any means. It would smoke the tires, but there was a ton of nose weight, you getting down to 3,450 is huge, great video, keep em coming.

Luv that car...

In nascar along time ago there was a car that was dipped in acid it took so much weight off the car if you leaned on the roof it would dent nice video Chris. Good luck at the races

love the build mentally on patina really cool!

Nothing you do is boring mate. This is hot rodding gold.

NOT BORING kannt wait for next videos, hf

Good shit brother!!!

Love this!

those B-body Mopar handle like a snow sleigh on ice . anyway good luck with the suspension !

Curious how your new neighbors are reacting to your noise. Your last neighbors were LEGENDS!

I love pateena what a car..amazing

At first I was thinking this was in fun, then I remembered NV legalized pot... LOL in all seriousness, good on you and your dedication. That who power to weight thing is lost on most.

great video. It gives me plenty of ideas. I know a lightweight battery can drop upwards of 30 lbs

Damn I love that car

Glen Ray Radiator, clutch fan, and a shroud.

Most of the Big Blocks I've seen that a 26" A/C radiator couldn't keep cool were set up too tight. Not enough piston clearance, not enough bearing clearance. They move fine when you build them but once running they build heat you can't pull out.

Wondering what you think of the aftermarket front ends with rack and pinion? A lot seem to have heim joints and I’m not a fan of those for street use, also wondering if you tried the Bergman PS box?

The key to proper cooling is: Mechanical Fan inside a Shroud AT THE PROPER DEPTH (adding or removing fan spacers). Also, it's good to vent the HOT air out of the engine bay via hood VENTS or a high pressure zone occurs. 1967 CHEVY II stays 180F all day long...

swiss cheezing the webbing of the hood, fenders and doors might help a lot with the reduction!

You're getting wiser, money doesn't solve problems, brains do. Colin Chapman had it right!

you can run an air chisel over the plasma slag and it chips it off real quick, saves or the grinding materials

Plus the fluid weights antifreeze is heavier than oil per gallon.

Chris it would be really great so see a video with you and Jamie Atwood from Dead Dodge Garage together on a video.

I understand your concern over the front sway bar, but I am concerned that your suspension geometry will suffer in those turns as the body sways. A small rear sway bar will keep the car more flat, get that rear around, and make the car more 'driftable". You can still do the hollow bar though. I put an oversized rear bar (custom) on my Viper and it was much more fun in the tighties.

ive had the same aprroach to my car im buiding all unnessacery brackets and studs removed anything i didnt need or use removed its not high hp but it does feel lighter on its feet

Chris look at taking some weight off the taillight housing, I think they could handle a diet. This sort of thing would keep me up at night, I can’t go to sleep bc I’m thinking about where else I can remove weight.

The pounds pick up faster than you think. Less weight, quicker outa the gate. The juice thing is out of my wheelhouse, it belongs in the dentists office. I'm doing figuring how much I can do on my Coronet for the drags. More motor, less weight, more gooder. ( I've been saying more gooder for years) onward!

👍 ✌ Love patina kicks ass

I would love to see what that 489 would do in a lightweight Duster 👍

Could the 489 be harder to cool than a 440?

One other big weight savings is put the driver on a diet. That could save 100lbs. :)

Hey Chris, can you make a video when you put the lightweight wiper motor in, along with the info on the homemade bracket setup? Also, can you use the stock wiper switch and is it also a "3 speed" ? What is the part number on the lightweight motor?

Chris, you want to go fast with this Charger? Ideally get a late model hemi, all alloy. Or an LS. IF you must use a Mopar start with a small block, not these truck engines. 340/360 [and 360 is a good deal heavier] with alloy heads intake etc. Get rid of a/c and powersteer, those are for girls. Compare the weight of the 6 speed over Nascar style 4 speed. Alloy bellhousing, Dana diffs are for trucks, as are 9" gunkers. Quick change??Or whatever you have that is lightest. Fibreglass bumpers, bonnet, boot. Delete the trim, lightweight steering wheel etc etc. So much crap you do not need but still have it roadworthy I have been through this 45 years ago. Holesawing, drilling etc saves buggerall weight. Cutting the doors etc up and removing all the mechanisms do remove weight but presuming you still wish to street drive the car is no good. 3mm Perspex over the glass saves some weight though when you start making frames to support it not much. Though you really should start with a smaller and more basic car, a Challenger etc with the above and not hack up a half decent street car.

Don’t forget the extra weight loss from the antifreeze to run those 4 rads, run lithium batteries if possible.

Love the mix of lbs and metric, not ounces!! Roll with it if that what works for you, tho’.

Brilliant

I love big blocks as much as the next guy but how much weight could you save with a well built small block?

Great content Chris. You and I are on the same page.

Does Ron Jenkins still make tubular front X member that lets you change the steering box to a rack which would help the steering and how the car feels no end plus being much lighter. Then there's the engine block swap to cast aluminium, is there a way to fit coilovers to the front and ditch the torsen bar suspension (unsprung weight)?

Welp what tf are you doin with a back seat in it then? Time to go! 😂😂

I hear great things about Howard cams what is your opinion

PWR radiator or factory brass, there is no other option unless you do flow testing to match the right core to the pump.

How much does the Dixie horn weigh ? Good way to rub it in at the checkered flag

Yes you got that right Peace out

You got too much time on your hands. Just Kidding. I dirt track raced for a short period of time. We were always looking for weight reduction. When I sold my car, the guy that bought it was telling me I had too much weight and what he was going to remove and redo. I wish I knew half what you do with making cars handle. I know you know what your doing by the way your cars handle on the autocrosses and on the dirt track. Keep on showing us your videos. I enjoy them.

It all adds up in the end lol

Try ATM carburetors you will love them.

I’m not sure if this would work on these hood hinges, but a friend of mine has the springs removed and in place had a chain inplace of the spring, and would unclip it when lowering. , not sure if it’s lighter than your idea of using a pin but just something i thought I’d share

Hey dom we can't wait till you get the charger out of the garage Daisy

One thing you didn't take into account is fluid volume loss removing extra radiators, the oil condenser and less hoses a gallon of water is 8 lbs!