whats your bird weight???

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whats your bird weight???

November 29, 2011, 06:45:09 PM

whats your car weigh? i wanna shed some LBS off my tbird but still keep the interior stock lookin. wanna try a grudge race. any tips??

whats your bird weight???

Reply #1 – November 29, 2011, 07:18:29 PM

i'm ashamed to say my blue TC only lost about 200-250 when i ditched the 4 cyl EFI, factory alt wiring, AC junk and some un-needed items (cruise control unit, factory amp, EQ, radio and all the wiring).. i think it gained more than that back with the 413 and turbo setup :( .. she probably weighs about 1-200 over the original weight

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Reply #2 – November 29, 2011, 07:24:47 PM

The last time I weighed the Sport, it was 3340 lbs.

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Reply #3 – November 29, 2011, 09:35:20 PM

On the tracks scale 3375 lbs.

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Reply #4 – November 30, 2011, 10:14:06 AM

Mine weighed 3560 on the track scales, which included 2/3 tank of gas, mini spare, and small tool bag, still has all options and dual power seats... With driver 3760...

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Reply #5 – November 30, 2011, 11:00:52 AM

mine still has the full interior, fancy trunk carpet, two amps and one 10"sub 3,000lbs without my 225lbs a$$

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Reply #6 – November 30, 2011, 03:21:08 PM

anyone care to tell wut they took out or stripped to get the weight down. i would like my car to be 3,000 lbs

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Reply #7 – November 30, 2011, 05:55:01 PM

a good start is to se all the sound deadener off the floor boards and trunk floor.. you'll get more road noise inside the car, but it's a good start

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Reply #8 – November 30, 2011, 06:23:41 PM

these bumpers dropped like 70lbs

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Reply #9 – November 30, 2011, 06:45:35 PM

I weighed my '97 when I first got it. With a full tank of gas it was right at 3,600...

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Reply #10 – November 30, 2011, 06:49:22 PM

Quote from: 347Thunder;374279

these bumpers dropped like 70lbs

where did you get those from?

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Reply #11 – November 30, 2011, 06:54:38 PM

he built them himself

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Reply #12 – December 01, 2011, 12:18:15 AM

And I'm going to THANK 347thunder alot for seeing what he came up with. My aluminum bumper should be done tomorrow. My steel bumper with all the triangles cut out of it with the supports and everything was still 28#. I'm hoping my aluminum one will be less than 10# even with the extra fog light brackets and stuff I put on mine.

I sed 40# of the glued on sound deadener off the floors. Theres probably another 40 of jute batting on the back of the carpet, but I just left the whole works out. All thats on the interior of mine is to race buckets and a dash, lol

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Reply #13 – December 01, 2011, 12:44:02 AM

i'd be interested to hear everything 347thunder has done to lighten his car.. my blue TC is overweight because i wanted to keep all the amenities it came with from the factory, with the exception of the factory stereo, to keep it comfortable and (almost) stock appearing on the interior side of things

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Reply #14 – December 01, 2011, 01:38:02 AM

Another couple of the big offenders are the power seats and the power window guts. I wouldn't sacrifice the PW myself. Along with the sound deadening on the floor, you would be surprised how much weight the carpet holds. It was a pain in the balls but i ripped everything (padding and what not) from the underside of the carpet. After steam cleaning and drying i was shocked that the carpet weighed like nothing. Obviously you pick up alot of noise doing that but in a fun street car or a "race car" who cares.

While the 87-88 Fox T-birds are heavier than their Fox mustang counter parts, they are pretty close to the SN95s. Mine (mustang) was 3400-3500 with myself and a friend in it. Both of us are around 170.