If there was a place where you could drive in and weigh your car for $20, (similar to a dyno run) would you be willing to pay this amount?

If YES or NO pls state your reasons.

 

probally not as 99% of the people dont really race their cars that hard, and those who do have professional scales which you can buy for 1-1.6k. oh yeah, there are truck stops which will weight your car in although they are terribly in accurate.

On a side note: a fc which has a stripped inteior weights abotu 2500lbs and one without any inteior (including sound deading) as well as without an engine (and/or anythign else in the engien bay)+tranny+driveshave+fueltank+bumper supports weights 1300lbs. and when you go ape **** nuts with a holesaw and change out the windows to lexan and cut out the door frames, that weight goes to about 1000lbs If you wait another year, you'll see this car in the US D1 series hopefully (it wont have a rotary engine in it though )

 

Many tracks have a scale I wieghed my 86 base at the tracka dn it wieghs 2550 with a 1/4 tank of gas

 

i wouldnt pay that much for it. i mean there most likely isnt a big difference between the stock weight unless you really stripped it down. if your going for the least weight possible then i can see paying $20 to weigh it. couldnt you go to a weigh station for trucks and do it there.

 

I really wanna weigh my car after all the weight reduction I've done. I'm curious what I'm at, only problem is I really dont know a place where I can go to do it.

 

I would pay that amount, but it would be cheeper to go to a rockcory(thats where I am going). When I go with my friend to get rock they weigh us before and after. Or somewhere that buys grain, both places have slow times so I would think they would do it if you just tipped the guy working $5.

 

No. There are free truck scales all over the place around here.

 

hahaha lol.. pay to weigh your car..

As others have said, many free truck weigh bridges right across the world..


....FWIW, I weighed mine not that long ago. 1200kg exactly all up (Series 4 N/A, not weight reduction)....

 

Just getting your car weighed is not enough incentive to pay money for it. It is nice to know how much your car weighs, but it is more important to know where your weight it located. This is especially important for autocross and road racing type stuff. You want to get your cross weights as close as possible to see if the car is balanced.

Just driving on a truck scale will not give you that information. You need to go to a shop or race track that has four seperate scales to get your corner weights.

 

No, I think I would just go to the junkyard down here, the guy is inlove with turbo rx-7's I bet he would let me weight mine 4 free

 

Weigh the corners, garenttee accuracy, and let me adjust stuff while I'm on the scale. I'll pay for that.

 

when u say truck scales, do you mean the wiegh in points along the side of the highway?? u just pull in??

 

I dunno about other places but I've heard of the truck weigh stations around here telling non-trucks to go away and refusing to weigh them

 

In my town, I can weigh my car at the recycling center, on the in and out. My old 87 base was 2200lbs with me in it(I am only about 150). The only things missing were the arm rest (broken) and the stereo (also broken).

 

that scale was wayyyy out of wack, i have read some fd owner say he went to a weight station and weight in his lightened fd with a 4bolt ford rear end at an amazing 2300lbs later to learn that on a accurate scale, he weight in at about 2700-2800lbs more or less

just like your scale at home, its good for telling you how much weight you put on or took off but its not good at telling you your exact weight

 

truck scales are crap. its for weighting in bigrigs and not sports cars hehe. just think about it

 

One time I went into a dump station with my friends truck totally loaded down with carpet and insulation. (Not really that heavy, but still)

When we left after unloading the truck, the scale said we were 20lbs heavier.

You decide how accurate it was

 

Er, no sorry man..
See they have lots of seperate scales so they can weigh individual axles and stuff like that. Not just one huge scale. My car wouldn't fit on just one, so I had the front wheels on one of the scales and the rear wheels on the other one.. They are very acturate in fact.. they HAVE to be, there is a standard (at least here in Australia, can't see why it'd be different anywhere else) that they have to conform to, IIRC.

FWIW, my car had near 50/50 weight balance without me in it and only about 10L of fuel in the back.

Oh and did I mention they're free?
I'll try and weigh my car next time im down at the circuit track just to comfirm it will be the same.. (which I already know it will be.. )

 

i bet i have one of the lightest fcs around right now (no motor in it)

 

Oh i dotn know i think mine is very light haha just kidding .

I would be interested in weighing the car as said above, but that will be able to tell me the weight distribution.

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Mine looked like that last week when I was removing some of the tar

 

I live around you and have done it before at a weigh station. just go in the middle of the night and when you put your car on the scale you should be able to look in the little booth and see the weight on the screen! presto! even tells you weight on each axel!


sooo...............to the origional question no i wouldnt pay $20

 

the question is, did you take out everything which is not welded to teh frame (incluiding fueltank and bumper supports) and did you go ape **** nuts with a hole saw and turn your firewall and other items in to swiss cheese

did you take a plasma cutter and start to cut apart chassie (all things such as spare tire wheel well being replaced with aluminum sheet metal)

also, did you totally gut your doors and even go to the extent to make aluminum lightweight door handles???

hehe like i said, look for this car in 2005 US D1 series

 

no




the taking motor out was not by choice..you sort of have to when it goes out..