What did you do to drop weight

extreme3807 · Dec 21, 2011

Aside from the standard spare tire and tailgate, what has everyone done to drop weight for racing?
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Jhaddox · Dec 21, 2011

Roll pan, take the hitch off, go in with 1/4 tank of fuel are a few I can think of

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cfdeng7 · Dec 21, 2011

Tailgate too. Could pull seats if you wanted make sure the cab is empty.

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jdgleason · Dec 21, 2011

Back seats are heavier than you think...

Jeff@Spartan · Dec 21, 2011

I got my crew cab down to 7620 lbs by removing the tailgate, spare, spare tire heat shield (not much weight there lol), and my receiver hitch. My suspension was also lighter, I had 305/50/20 Toyo Proxes, and I had roughly an 1/8 tank of fuel.

extreme3807 · Dec 21, 2011

Good info. Does anyone know their pre-race weight and what all they took off and what their actual race weight was. Trying to get an idea of how much eace piece weighs roughly.

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Jeff@Spartan · Dec 21, 2011

I have only weighed my truck twice. I weighed it a few years ago when I sled pulled. It weighed 8170 lbs with me in the truck, 1/2 tank of fuel, 325/60/20 Toyo AT's on factory Harley 20's, a leveling kit, and nothing in the bed or in the cab (except me). So from that point to how my truck sat earlier this year, I was able to drop 550 lbs without removing a single thing inside the cab. That weight loss also includes all of the EGR stuff gone as it was still on the truck when it weighed 8170.

If you did everything I did, you would easily be able to get down in the 7300-7400 range since your truck is an EC/SB. You also have 1 turbo to my 2.

JoeDaddy · Dec 21, 2011

I've taken 60# out of the drivers seat and hope to have 50 more by May 18th.

MUDSTROKIN' · Dec 21, 2011

JoeDaddy said:
I've taken 60# out of the drivers seat and hope to have 50 more by May 18th.

That's impressive, good job and good luck on the other 50!

Powerstroke586 · Dec 22, 2011

That front bumper looks a little heavy lol, looks good though!

extreme3807 · Dec 22, 2011

Thanks for the info jeff. The bumper weighs about 150 lbs, needless to say after I got the truck back from rudy's I took that off and left the 37's off. Im working on getting a 5-point roll bar done, just trying to add the weight of that up to the race setup

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Rmartin-97 · Dec 22, 2011

Could a person take out one battery or do the trucks need two to run?

Powerstroke586 · Dec 22, 2011

extreme3807 said:
Thanks for the info jeff. The bumper weighs about 150 lbs, needless to say after I got the truck back from rudy's I took that off and left the 37's off. Im working on getting a 5-point roll bar done, just trying to add the weight of that up to the race setup

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Thats not bad actually i was thinkin it was maybe 250 plus

Mike@MPD · Dec 22, 2011

I'm running one battery and it works fine

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JoeDaddy · Dec 22, 2011

Rmartin-97 said:
Could a person take out one battery or do the trucks need two to run?

I run 1 in the summer 2 in the winter. It starts fine on 1 till it hits about 40*.

Rmartin-97 · Dec 22, 2011

Mike@MPD said:
I'm running one battery and it works fine

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That would save at least 50 pounds.

NotStock · Dec 22, 2011

I always and I repeat ALWAYS take a moto dump. Nothing like loosing a solid 2lbs of a paint peeling steamer!

ThirdCoastStroker · Dec 22, 2011

JoeDaddy said:
I've taken 60# out of the drivers seat and hope to have 50 more by May 18th.

Sweet congrats, I've dropped 40 out of the drivers seat, and hoping for about 35 more, before april 14th, thats my funeral...i mean wedding day.

If you really wanna drop some pounds for race day you could pull the bed, its not all that hard, just need a few extra hands to pick it up.