what does your car weigh?
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being fanatical about 1/4 mile im very interested in lightweight. interested in what other people have done in thi field. i've got my sprint down to 490kgs but should hopefully be as light as 465kgs by july '06. its still all metal not neccessarily steel though.

I seriously doubt it!

1860lb / 843kg incl driver last time i raced. I remember distinctly it had exactly half a tank of fuel aswell (although it was 'gas' rather than the pertol i used to put in when in england - not sure if it weighs the same...).

Lose say 20kg for the tools and spare-wheel I had in the car that time, and it's 1816lb / 823kg
The driver weighs in at 90kg, so that's around 1617 lb / 733kg for just the mini.

That's the weight I've raced at Avon (full trim) for the past howevermany years...

In honesty, That's probably as heavy-a-turbo mini you could find - the only 'weight saving' compnents I've got in the mini is drilled tower-bolts, and minifins!



oh - i've always got my laptop with me on runs - and if anyone has seen it they'll know what a 'brick' it is - well that's at least another 100kg!!!

Edited by turbodave16v on 30th Nov, 2005.

Holy crap - Your mini is 67% the weight of mine - or I'm 33% heavier than you...

I'm not convinced it makes any difference to be honest.













(cough) bulshit (cough)

weve been here in the past paul ,but its always an interesting one,
a few of us weighed our cars on scruffys scales at the showdown in 2003,
mine was 570kgs without the rear baulkhead and that weighs 8kgs, two full bottles of gas and almost full on fuel were on board. i cannot see it getting any lighter.lol

carl

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I must get mine weighed properly sometime (well when the new one's finished).

I had the old car weighed at 590kgs but I've easily taken 30kgs out since then.

Wil

Fastest 998 mini in the world? 13.05 1/4 mile 106mph

Mine is 680kg without driver and half a tank of fuel.

-MINI CLUBMAN 1380 TURBO-

mine should be about 550kg (guess) I think, endaf used to run it with 30kg's of lead to meet the 650kg weight requirement for racing

Edited by Vegard on 2nd Dec, 2005.

Well Dave i might have beaten you to this title

I weighed my car and it was 851 Kgs with me in.

Best 1/4 mile 13.2 seconds @116 mph
First 5 port miniturbo to make over 200 bhp on a carb?
First 5 port miniturbo to make over 200 bhp on Injection?

http://www.mattwoodsphotography.com

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Best 1/4 mile 13.2 seconds @116 mph
First 5 port miniturbo to make over 200 bhp on a carb?
First 5 port miniturbo to make over 200 bhp on Injection?

http://www.mattwoodsphotography.com

I'm not sure how Matt.

What's the difference between our minis?

Only thing i can think is that you have an extra 1" of alloy on each wheel, maybe not minifins, and maybe not drilled tower bolts...
I believe you also have lightewight seats now, rather than the 20+kg recaro's in mine?

Either your scales are out, or the ones at the racetrack (and the Eaton Manchester Tare bridge) are out - but there is nothing else to separate them i believe?

T3-T2= several kilos at a guess...

Nope...

a little over 1kg.
Then there is an adaptor plate...

'picking peanuts out of poo' is an expression that seems apt here...

I just seem to recall when me and PetterJ measured them that there was a massive difference. That was including the Mirage manifold though which I know you haven't got.

I can believe that, having seen many mirage manifolds (having worked with rich) and felt how light they are, but TBH never picked up a cast manifold!!

Cast manifold is pretty heavy - then there is an adaptor plate, and i'm still running a (modified) cast elbow aswell...

675kgs with half a tank of fuel and no spare wheel or driver.

There is a noticeable difference between my turbo mounted on the exhaust manifold and downpipe (mirage) and my old t3 with its cast manifold etc - next time my turbo is off i'll weigh it....

mine did weigh 398 kgs when only the one engine.

carl

WWW.FORCE-RACING.CO.UK PLEASE CLICK HERE

Hi Paul
Well you already know my speedster weighs in at 474 KGs with fuel, but already I am working on loosing about 10 -20 Kilo's for the Avon park shoot out

http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c248/spe...er1/mini007.jpg

If it a'nt broke don't fix it !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

yes it's a weird one mate. I was weighed on a weigh bridge that the company take gain to farmers, i would have thought it was fairly close but you never no.

I have use about 4 5L cans of wax oil on the car lol, do you have standard cast drums at the back of yours? i do. i'll PM you the other reason i think.

Edited by Miniwilliams on 4th Dec, 2005.

Best 1/4 mile 13.2 seconds @116 mph
First 5 port miniturbo to make over 200 bhp on a carb?
First 5 port miniturbo to make over 200 bhp on Injection?

http://www.mattwoodsphotography.com

mine is 660 with full tank of fuel and and me in the car


I'm 88kg's so the car is around 572kgs with a full tank of fuel.

Team Racing

Jimster do you have a RH mounted fuel tank by any chance lol

Or more important, what is mounted on your front left side? :)

That will need some sorting with adjustment of the Hi-Los...

I think you can all sleep assured that Jims is possible the best set-up mini on here, thanks the the magical Endaf... Just look at the total - not the balances