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Re: vehicle weight

To: Seth <sbunin@comcast.net>, Bricklin@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: vehicle weight
From: Brian Bunin <Brian@buningrad.reno.nv.us>
Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2003 16:42:35 -0800
At 03:55 PM 3/24/2003, Seth <sbunin@comcast.net> wrote:
>Got bored today so I took my car into work and put it on our scales. The 
>vehicle is a 75 with
>the air conversion for the doors, and is essentially stock everywhere 
>else, including all acrylic
>panels. Well, you can add about another 30lb for the sound system. The 
>vehicle had a 1/2
>tank of gas. The results:
>
>Left Front: 995
>Right Front: 1005
>Left Rear: 794
>Right Rear: 766
>
>Front: 2000lb
>Rear: 1560lb
>
>Total: 3560 lb
>
>Now the neat thing is this, if you figure I add another 68lb for a full 
>tank of gas, and looking at
>the door tag showing a GVWR of 3900, that means that with a fully gased 
>vehicle, I'm allowed
>a total of another 272lb before I'm over the total limit. That's two 
>pretty tiny people, and no
>luggage!

I would recommend ditching the stereo system, then.
:)

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