A body weight ?

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famous bob

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What does you guys A body resto mod big blocks weigh ? I weighed mine at the mopar meet a few weeks ago, and it weighed 3278 w/ half tank of lawnmower gas.
 
If memory serves, the silver Duster w/Hemi, 4-speed, gear vendor, A/C weighed in at 3265.....almost full tank of fuel. All steel Duster with aluminum intense drive train....coffee getter.
 
My old 73 dart swinger with Aluminum headed 440 etc and no Roll bar weighed 3520 with me in it.
 
You have a lawnmower engine under the hood ? good for you ! My 1972 Scamp 318,904.8 1/4", power steering & brakes with air, bench seat weighs 3210 lbs . Car now has 383, 727, 9", 6 pt. roll bar and 3" prop shaft after power steer/brakes,A/C, radio have been deleted weighs 3290 lbs . Not bad
 
68 Barracuda Formula S coupe.

3209 lbs on accurate digital scale

Aluminum: heads, intake water pump, 4 core radiator, water pump,
Power steering
TTI headers and TTI full exhaust to tips
Front and rear sway bars
1.14" torsion bars
Automatic trans
Stock heavy 11.75 disks,
Stock heavy console,
Full interior
stock location wet cell battery


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Some other cars to put things in perspective...

71 Challenger. 340, 4 spd, t/a hood, aluminum heads, cast iron ex manifolds, full interior, no a/c, power steering

3455 lbs

That is F/R 56.4%/43.6% weight split w/o driver. (scale is just reading rear percentage)

F/R 55.6%/44.4% weight split w/driver

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The Red Brick race race 68 Valiant

3291 w/o driver

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Depends.....on who is in the passenger seat ...;) LOL
was weighed w/o my 208 in it . 505' wedge, dana 60, 727, 6 point cage, alum. heads and water pump housing, business coupe type interior w/ no back seat, weld prostars all around. A friends 340? small block weighs 3600 something w/o an interior at all in the back if I remember what he said. Amazes me how much mopars differ ! ???????
 
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