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Title: How much does your Pinto weigh??
Post by: High_Horse on July 04, 2007, 04:50:46 PM

OK...I finally got ThunderPinto on the scale and at it's current configuration it weighs 2260 with full fuel. Anybody else had there car on a scale?

High_Horse

Title: Re: How much does your Pinto weigh??
Post by: Srt on July 05, 2007, 03:14:56 AM

i had my '71 down to just a bit over 1800 back in '71

Title: Re: How much does your Pinto weigh??
Post by: High_Horse on July 05, 2007, 02:15:02 PM

Srt,
Thanx for responding with that. I have not seen any serious weight measurements on this site or maybe I have overlooked them. Maybe some of the guys with stock cars could sunday drive to the scales and give us modified guys a baseline for comparison.
I think it would be good data for this sight.

High_Horse

Title: Re: How much does your Pinto weigh??
Post by: crazyhorse on July 05, 2007, 02:30:04 PM

According to the scales at the Co-Op my '74 runabout weighs in at 2150lbs with a full tank of gas

Title: Re: How much does your Pinto weigh??
Post by: turbowagonman on July 05, 2007, 04:02:40 PM

Quote from: crazyhorse on July 05, 2007, 02:30:04 PM
According to the scales at the Co-Op my '74 runabout weighs in at 2150lbs with a full tank of gas

Is that stock or do you have some mods done to it?

I know when I get mine done and operable I will at Kurts Bros. (a landscape supply place by me) just for the reason of I have a G-Tech and I will need that info for when I'm at the track and trying to tune my computer. Thats when the real fun begins........trting not to grenade my motor!!! That would not be good :(

turbowagonman

Title: Re: How much does your Pinto weigh??
Post by: Srt on July 06, 2007, 03:20:06 AM

back in those days i was young, dumb and full of .....enthusiasm! i was making decent money and i liked to go fast. i stripped EVERYTHING out of the interior that i could short of the two front seats. added lexan windows. i mean i damn near took out or stripped out or scraped out everything i could, th only glass in the car was the windshield. it was weighed at Zimmers Chevron ( a truck stop) on Peck Rd, at the 605 freeway here in southern california. the scales were frequently certified as accurate and i talked to a CHP relative that was alive at the time and he assurred me that the numbers from their scales were about as correct as could be. and it didn't cost a dime either

Title: Re: How much does your Pinto weigh??
Post by: crazyhorse on July 07, 2007, 12:06:11 AM

It's mechanically stock. but I've swapped out the seats & added new carpet, W/rubber backing for sound deadener. All told it SHOULD weigh in at it's stock weight. +-25lbs of junk/tools

Title: Re: How much does your Pinto weigh??
Post by: Monte on July 08, 2007, 03:21:46 PM

I just weighed my '79 HB on 4 corner scales.

It weighed in right at 2570 with a full tank of gas, spare tire/jack, A/C, & Smog pump.

I'm hoping to have it down to 2500 with 8.8 rear, TH400 trans, & LS1

Pinto Car Club of America

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