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What's the average weight of a finished roadster?
Well pretty much as the title says, has anyone who's completed their roadster weighed it and if so what was the result? A separate front and rear weight would be useful to know along with what engine/gearbox etc is in it.
I'm rebuilding a Locust chassis and fitting a 2.9 Cosworth V6 along with type 9 box and Granada running gear. I have a pair of caravan weighing devices which I use regularly in my work but they're just the job for keeping track of the build weight and should be great for setting up the corner weights. I'm aiming for a kerb weight of around 600-650KGs but today I weighed the engine/box and it came in at 182KGs without flywheel, clutch, alternator, starter, power steering pump or fluids ! Chassis is currently clocking in at around 90KGs but there's more metal to be added yet, I'm afraid I don't subscribe to Colin Chapman's school of engineering and might just have spent too long welding big lumps of metal together, it becomes a habit you know . So I'm interested to hear of others experiences with finished kerb weigh and perhaps more importantly weight distribution. D.
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Is there really only one person knows his kerb weight?
D.
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Think mine was about 650kg.
full tank of fuel, 2mm chassis. Didn't realy worry about weight when building.
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My Locost with 1800cvh and a stainless floor, full fuel tank weighed 630kg @ sva.
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i think Spuds car was 520kgs at sva.
cheers andy
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Cheers guys, that's useful information. Anyone else?
D.
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Mine weighed in at 512kg at SVA with a Toyota 4AGE and MT75. I'm not at all sure about the accuracy of that though because I didn't build light (1.6mm Steel floor for example). I was expecting 600ish.
Neil
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