Ken,

is paint a weight-issue on performance gain????? whoopping others WITH paint ????    or are you not yet out witch color ?

Barry, I know what you mean. We just bought a 2006 Dodge Dakota crew cab pickup, and it's a pain to wash for a mid size truck. Can't reach the middle of the windshield standing on the ground. Could be the beer belly in the way? I'm gonna get a soft brush for the thing. If any of you have never tried a waterblade, that's the way to get most of the water off. Then use the chamois. Hey Barry, I hope your Ram gets some milage. This Dakota has a 4.7L overhead cam V8 and the milage sucks.

Dave

No paint does make it lighter, but lack of smooth paint increased wind drag.

So it's a bit better off the line, but loses a bit of top speed. 

Hi Dave, milage ?  there's a digital display above the mirror on the ceiling, i tought it was a speedometer .....  and there's also something in mpg... it has only 1 digit !

Ken , perhaps paint the front ? increases top end and leaves downforce on the unpainted back , saving 1/2 paint weight ?

Dave gratz on the new Dakota but you wanna talk about sucking miliage  Look at this Dakota, people ask what my gas miliage is and I tell them "Line of Sight"  if I don't see a gas station I don't drive there

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Mark and Barry, I guess we can grin and take it. At least it gets a little better milage than the vette. I took it in to see if the computer could be reflashed with any updates, but it has all the current programing in it already. I'm gonna put a K& N fresh air filter system on it and a cat back system, Flomaster series 40. I may help some

Dave

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Dave

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Dave that things gonna be loud with Flowmaster 40 series on it, thats what I've got on mine and I love the sound  Much deeper and louder then the Vette.

Milage ? yepyep... my car is now fine and i went to gas station .... in the month of trying with everything ( ingnition, carb... ) and ONLY do some testruns here in the street of our industrial park ... i got 15 gallons in the tank...  ok, lost some fuel by dessambling the carb a few times....

Hmmmm.......   paint the front half.    That just may work 

And then I could impress people when I arrive.  I don't care what they think when I'm leaving.