Weight of a BARE chassis?
07-15-05, 06:33 AM
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Weight of a BARE chassis?
I'm curious if anyone has weighed a BARE chassis FC. No body panels/windows, wiring, lights, etc... B A R E
What's the weight?
What's the weight?
07-15-05, 07:10 AM
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not sure on the actual weight, but it was light enough that me and two lightweight friends were able to lift it by hand and walk it out of the garge without too much effort
had to be one hell of a sight, lol
had to be one hell of a sight, lol
07-20-05, 05:29 AM
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^^ As bare as you can imagine the car before cutting it up. So from what I take from everyone's posts, I should only need one other person to help move the thing?
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i had a stripped chasis last summer. my friend backed a trailer under as i pushed it up to get it under the car. it probably weighs around 500lbs lbs. i can lift the front endup by myself. with not much effort. i got about 13 bucks for it. so take the cost of steel, and go by that.
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12-21-09, 11:16 AM
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We weighed a bare S5 chassis last weekend using intercomp scales and it came out at 550 lbs.
This one was stripped to nothing almost every bracket/clip etc removed. It was still painted and had been repainted before thus im sure that added weight.
After weighing it we started to use some dry ice to remove the tar based sound deadening and found out that the stuff weighs about 0.5 lbs per sqft at the average thickness. The stuff near the trans tunnel, at the firewall, and above the exhaust is double thick thus closer to 1lb per sqft. We figured this S5 had nearly 25lbs of tar in the tub. I think a chassis fully stripped of paint, tar etc could get close to 500lbs because we didnt even start to strip any weatherproofing from the underside of the chassis.
I realize i am bringing this back from the dead but i wanted to throw it out there for possible future searchers....
This one was stripped to nothing almost every bracket/clip etc removed. It was still painted and had been repainted before thus im sure that added weight.
After weighing it we started to use some dry ice to remove the tar based sound deadening and found out that the stuff weighs about 0.5 lbs per sqft at the average thickness. The stuff near the trans tunnel, at the firewall, and above the exhaust is double thick thus closer to 1lb per sqft. We figured this S5 had nearly 25lbs of tar in the tub. I think a chassis fully stripped of paint, tar etc could get close to 500lbs because we didnt even start to strip any weatherproofing from the underside of the chassis.
I realize i am bringing this back from the dead but i wanted to throw it out there for possible future searchers....
12-22-09, 10:11 AM
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Here are the pics of our partout. I bought this car to pull spares from for another car that we are building into a Performance Touring NASA road racing car.
The bare chassis we used as a little R and D tool. We tried the dry ice and weighed it.
The only parts left on this chassis were the wiper linkages, paint, a few plastic pieces here and there and the tar based sound deadening material.
We then started to practice technique for removing the sound deadening material. We will be doing this with the other car so we wanted to test it on a lab rat first.
The dry ice method works very well. The stuff literally comes off in huge chunks. The only tricky part is getting it up onto the sloped parts of the chassis.
The bare chassis we used as a little R and D tool. We tried the dry ice and weighed it.
The only parts left on this chassis were the wiper linkages, paint, a few plastic pieces here and there and the tar based sound deadening material.
We then started to practice technique for removing the sound deadening material. We will be doing this with the other car so we wanted to test it on a lab rat first.
The dry ice method works very well. The stuff literally comes off in huge chunks. The only tricky part is getting it up onto the sloped parts of the chassis.
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