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Re: Race car weight

To: Wayne <w.farrington@verizon.net>
Subject: Re: Race car weight
From: Eric Murray <ericm@lne.com>
Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2002 11:19:22 -0800
On Thu, Jan 10, 2002 at 11:12:18AM -0800, Wayne wrote:
> 
> I need to get the GVW of my race car. I have two 300lb. capacity bathroom type
> scales to work with. What is the proper process to do this??

If your race car has less than 300 lbs/wheel, you can weigh
each axle with a scale under each wheel.
Block up the other wheels so the car's level othewise you
will read slightly low.  (although wth a car's wheelbase, it
might be such a small effect that you can ignore it).

If you have more than 300 lbs/wheel you could put a board across the two scales
and use two scales under each wheel.

Whatever, to get the total weight, add up all the scale readings.

Eric

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