well i took the FD to the pilot truck stop last night and used the CAT truck scale that is certified to weigh within a pound. i barely had any gas; i filled it up AFTER weighing and figured out that i had 2.3 gallons of gas in the tank when i weighed it.

my car is a base model with no sunroof and no bose, 5speed, mods are intake and full exhaust with hiflow cat. car still has AC and spare.

2687 lbs it was actually 2720 on the scale with an extra set of stock turbos in the back. we took them out and weighed them at 33lbs, so 2720-33 =2687lbs

this seems awfully light... what do your FD's weigh?

 

wow, that's amazingly light...about 100 lbs shaved off. I think avg. stock FDs are like 2800 something: http://www.rx7.net.nz/usspec.htm

Not many cars out there that light w/ tons of performance.

 

wow, thats pretty feckin light. Is it like the touring models that weigh 28XXlbs? I wonder how much my R1 weighs, anyone have some corner weight scales they want to let me borrow? . I always thought FD's were a few hundred lbs more.

 

are the specification weights always listed with X amount of gas or with a dry tank?

also, i have a custom full exhaust, which probably weighs alot less than stock, but i'm not sure exactly how much... i dunno

 

curb weight is no passengers and an empty tank. GVW is comfortably seating X passangers (depends on car, 2 for the usdm FD), full luggage compartment, and a full tank of gas.

 

spec weight is with 1/2 tank of gas, so 10 gal.

 

you guys said different things about the weight and gas in the tank. which is it?

 

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Last time I weighed my FD on the HMMWV scale at Fort Hood, it was around 2650 with 1/4 tank. No cats, no a/c, no p/s.

 

Mine weights roughly 2300lbs

Of course.. my motor is out of the car.

 

2680 with 1/2 tank and an LS1

 

Damn, thats exactly what i was looking for weight wise when i put my ls1 in. Except mine is the R1 model with no sunroof or bose.....

And a lil side note, what fender flares are those on the back. Even better, could you send me all the info on your car? So i can get some ideas for mine? haha

 

thanks thats exactly what i was looking for.

so, i had 2 gallons of gas in the tank... 1 gallon of gas weighs ~6lbs, so 6x18 (to get a full tank) would be 108lbs. 2687 + 108 = 2795

pretty damn close...

 

*ding, ding, ding*

stock cat and pre-cat likely adds 80 lbs to the car

 

see my above post though, about the gasoline and tank

 

I'm surprised lupe hasn't jumped in this thread advertising his car for sale with some weight comment and a link haha

 

My 94 base with full exhaust system and no power steering or A/C was 2714 on the weight scales. I don't remember how much gas I had at the time.

 

the stock main cat is somewhere around 70 lbs on it's own...

and it hurts when it lands on you. trust me. didn't realize one of my rubbers had snapped...

 

I just had my car weighed while it was smogged. It weighed in at 3125 pounds with a full tank of gas and a 160 pound person in it. My car is also stock except for a downpipe and radiator.

 

I had a '94 base that weighed in at 2760 with 1/2 tank and the only significant weight saving mod being a downpipe.

 

My fd weighs 2720. I have no idea how much gas i had in it. But thats pretty damn light! I have single turbo,greddy fmic and all the stuff you would assume with that setup lol. No PS or AC

 

+1!

 

i find that very hard to believe!

 

Stock main cat is somewhere around 40 pounds or so.

I went to go find that link which listed the weights of just about every component on the FD (mantissa consulting page) but it's down

 

33.5 lbs per Gene Felber, 30 lbs per Max Cooper (I have a hard copy).