curious as to what a T bucket weighs ready to go.? small block , auto ,10 bolt ,glass body . Just a basic simple car . Can you do it at 1400 lbs?Thanks ?
You can't make 1,400 lbs unless you run an aluminum engine, frame and a small aluminum tranny and small differential. Then it is pretty difficult. Mine weighs about 2,000 lbs with a steel body when it had the Mustang engine.
~1350# with a 215 aluminum Olds V-8 with matching auto transmission, 8" Ford, 2 X 3 X .125" frame rails, sheet metal floor but no interior, full of gas (8 gal?)
I built one in the sixties, 270" Dodge hemi, steel body, etc. I had to have it weighed on certified scales to get it registered. Mine came in at 1835 pounds.
Mine was 1475. Flatty, T5, banjo rear, spun gas tank (half full) , 'glass body w/plywood floor, '40 Ford brakes all on a 2x3 tube chassis. Weighed at the race shop I worked at for a bit.
Mine was 1900. 350 chebby with a 670 blower and about 400 pounds of lead ballast in the rear section of the frame.
Mine ended up at 1870 lb 327ci, Saginaw 4 speed , 10 bolt rear, full tank of gas. Heavier than it could have been built, but it was for the street not the strip.
Mine is right around 16 80-1690 . Running Ford small block ( 90 lbs. lighter than Chevy) banjo rear and c-4.
As an aside; how do the rest of you know how much your car weighed? As I said earlier, I had to have mine weighed on state certified scales to get it registered.
when we shipped a couple of trucks out of the country we had them weighed at a local gravel pit otherwise we were considering the feed mill or going to the scrapyard to have them weighed but the gravel pit was the closest.
A race car shop should have scales as well. They may not be certified. Some places need that for title info.
Yup. Out my way, for anything that is registered as a truck, even a T, with a diminutive bed, a certified weight verification is required. Luckily, there care DMV linked scales all over the place. You show them your paperwork, park on the scale, and it is automatically sent to the state.
JOECOOL, I'm curious as to why you initiated the question. For racing? Towing? Then registration came up which I never thought of...