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Wade Mahaffey · 01-17-2011, 02:59 PM

I know there are many ways to remove weight from any car to achive a ballast advantage. It just depends on how much work you want to do. There are many ways to hide things that would require complete disassembly to find. This is especially true in the front wheel drive conversion vehicles. On a fiberglass car, one could create a mold from an origonal....then reproduce with fewer layers of mat/resin....thus a lighter part. There probably is not a car out there, that does'nt have an aluminum part/bracket where a steel one used to be. Some tracks have a scale that can provide front axle weight and rear as well. If two Super/Stock Camaros with the same combo take the scales and one is 50 lbs lighter on the nose, that may be an indicator that one is using other than stock materials/components. The problem with this presents when a person that really knows a particular car, sees that your car is not correct (ie wrong hood, interior, body trim package etc, etc ...these are small things). If an aftermarket front end was on a Corvette.....a real Corvette man would be all over that...and could provide the proof for the official. Then he/she contacts the officals and they must then investigate. I would hate to re-skin or re-chassis my car because I was greedy....even if I got a year off to do it! It can be done, but you would probably be better off doing it yourself (provided you had the talent and equitment)...that way you're the only one that knows what happened!

as far as replacing fiberglass parts with other composites....they let stockers run in the 9s now a days....I would'nt bet on anything

Wade Mahaffey

01-17-2011, 02:59 PM	#66
Wade Mahaffey Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2007 Posts: 581 Likes: 0 Liked 18 Times in 8 Posts	Re: Any new S/SS cars being built for 2011 I know there are many ways to remove weight from any car to achive a ballast advantage. It just depends on how much work you want to do. There are many ways to hide things that would require complete disassembly to find. This is especially true in the front wheel drive conversion vehicles. On a fiberglass car, one could create a mold from an origonal....then reproduce with fewer layers of mat/resin....thus a lighter part. There probably is not a car out there, that does'nt have an aluminum part/bracket where a steel one used to be. Some tracks have a scale that can provide front axle weight and rear as well. If two Super/Stock Camaros with the same combo take the scales and one is 50 lbs lighter on the nose, that may be an indicator that one is using other than stock materials/components. The problem with this presents when a person that really knows a particular car, sees that your car is not correct (ie wrong hood, interior, body trim package etc, etc ...these are small things). If an aftermarket front end was on a Corvette.....a real Corvette man would be all over that...and could provide the proof for the official. Then he/she contacts the officals and they must then investigate. I would hate to re-skin or re-chassis my car because I was greedy....even if I got a year off to do it! It can be done, but you would probably be better off doing it yourself (provided you had the talent and equitment)...that way you're the only one that knows what happened! as far as replacing fiberglass parts with other composites....they let stockers run in the 9s now a days....I would'nt bet on anything Wade Mahaffey Last edited by Wade Mahaffey; 01-17-2011 at 03:03 PM.