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Cabin Modification for Safety and Weight Reduction

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He Turned His Wife's Daily Driver Into A Grudge Truck! Crew Cab 4x4 Twin Turbo Silverado (Runs 9s)

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What happens here

To meet safety standards for drag racing and achieve significant weight reduction, the truck's interior underwent a drastic transformation. The entire cabin was stripped, removing components like the dashboard (now an empty shell) and the headliner (originally 4 inches thick). Over 700 pounds of material were removed from the truck, bringing its race weight (with driver) down to 4514 pounds. A full roll cage, including Kirkey racing seats, was custom-fabricated and installed. Garry noted the cage was initially designed to clear car seats in the back, ensuring it could still function as a family vehicle, and later modifications were done to allow visibility for a gauge pillar, even if it made the dashboard look "funny."

Goal: Enhance driver safety and minimize vehicle weight for competitive racing.

Tools and materials

  • Dashboard

What they say

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going down the road this is still the same cage you've had in here since i saw it for the first time on still the same cave so like where the headliner was the only headliner is like four inches thick so everything like hangs down and looks stupid now the original had like a gauge pillar so we bent this stuff to clear that so you can see the gauges and it kind of looks now and and i still had i still have the damn uh parking brake in it and that's why this is kind of bit funny the way it is it started as just a six point that's why this bar doesn't go through the floor but this year we gutted the dash there's no heater in it it's an empty shell how much does it weigh now 45 14 with me in it that's insane it was uh a little over 700 pounds we cut out of it you're like hellcat weight now so that's what i keep saying we're modern your normal car yeah you're right you're normal this thing won't go anywhere in two-wheel drive it might as well be on water

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