Quote:

---

Yeap, A lot later indeed, a lot later in the night that is was. While most of you were asleep I was typing the results of the Thumperdart submission turned into Thumperdart commission. LOL

I'm exhausted from a long day of meetings, thanksgivings and such, so bare with me.

Okay, from what I remember in the back lots of my mind, it was a bright and sunny day when I picked up my small block powered, manual drum brake, Power steering, AM radio, heater employed 2 door post sedan from a Brooklyn school teacher. I glimpsed down at my new registration and naively over joyed at the numbers; 3180 Lbs curb weight as it was sprung from the nest over at Lynch Rd. In hind site and said by Public Enemy, "Don't believe the type" LOL.

Almost immediately a year after and still believing the "Type" on the regi, a modest diet plan goes into affect and a first trip to the scales at the track shortly thereafter read: 3049 Lbs with out me in the seat and factoring in a half a tank of gas more or less.
Hard to believe but Wow, right direction. The "Type" must really be really, or so I thought.

A year later, I install my CM roll bar and apply a surgical knife with a more ambitious diet in place, half a tank of gas and with out me in the seat and head over to a local certified truck scale;
3370 Lbs,
WHAT!!!!! How could this be?
I could not see a CM roll bar piping in that much weight (321 Lbs), so I figured that the truck scale must be drunk being that the first track scale readings seemed parallel to what I was doing with the car's advertised 3180 weight. Or so I thought.

Oh well................. I go at it again with a few other dietary tricks and go to a scale reading last Summer at a different track with a full tank, tools, spare in the trunk and this time with me in the pilot seat.
3390 Lbs. WHATTTTT!!!!!!!!
Some body is drugging these scales or I'm a bad mathematician or a wishful tinkerer. I'm physically light, but not enough to only make a difference of 20 lbs on top of 3370 lbs. This confusion made both prior scale readings suspect along with the registration.

So where do I stand? IIRC, my strict records (not in front of me at the moment) tallied up all the weight trimmings to date since day one to be 620 lbs more or less.
Would that mean that this pup was well over 3670 Lbs from the factory based on the 3390 Lbs track scale reading?
This 3390 figure minus 620 lbs would presumedly mean that it was closer to 4000 Lbs or so originally and I find that hard to believe for a small block or even a big block 330 cheapo stripper with hardly any creature features.

So you see, I'm really confused or in denial as to the real cars weight now, but it's obviously lighter than its humble school teacher beginnings, what ever that figure may have been.
Now that I'm almost done with bulk weight removal and moving into micro weight removal territory, I'll look forward to having four well calibrated real world scales under all four wheels to come up with either a eureka moment or a heart break with more hard work left to do. And since I have recorded every ounce to the count of weight removed, I could actually know what this pup originally weighed by simply adding in the removed pounds to the figure the four wheel scales will say.

Details at 11.

---

Holy cow...OK...now we understand why you haven't posted the weight of your car up all this time....but, we'd think a guy that's as anal as you about weight would have found out the actual weight of his car a long time ago... (and I'm still waiting on that picture... )

Quote:

---

Yes, but with conflicting numbers at various scales aside from my conflicting work schedule, it is indeed hard to find time to get it all together. I have not even had the car out this Summer.

Now with a friends four wheel scales coming, I will actually get a sense of where it stands. I'm just as curious as many of you. I suspect that the car is in real time some where in the very low 3000's.
My objective has been to tap on the door of the high 20's while still being street worthy, relatively SUPER stock looking while sporting an all metal crust.

---

My head hurts............. I would guess around 3200 something and forgot what I origionally guessed at...........

Quote:

---

Gee, 3200 something! That there puts me in A-body territory. I guess I'll be the big Elephant in the room.LOL.
I will not delete any more stuff until I get it scaled, then whom ever came close to the numbers now, I'll still honor a small prize in the mail. I suspect one of you has hit it on the nail.
After the up-coming scaling, I kind of wanna start on a new slate to see what can be achieved realistically down the road. The ounce counts campaign should prove challenging.
Now when I get more or less finished with all the tricks that I can muster up and share at a later date, that will be another guessing game. So in essence, this thread can go on for ever. LOL.

---

That`s 3200 w/out you..............