No AC (still have compressor in there though), no heater core. Stock 91-92 Z28 rims. Stock metal hood, with fiberglass scoop. Cd player, 4x6s, 6x9s, no subs or box. No spare tire, no jack.
Full tank of gas.
No driver.

3340 lbs.

That is about what I had expected. Correct me if I'm wrong but gasoline weighs in at about 7lbs per gallon.
Brady

 

It's closer to 6# per gallon.
In the aviation field thats very important for weight & balance.
Water is closer to 8# per gallon for general info.

I had no idea these cars where this lite.
I assumed thats what mine weighes now, after removing the hole interior with only an aluminum dash and a seat along with aluminum heads no air or heater box. Also removed door internals. I guess I'm probably closer to 2800 or so?


Ron

 

i really dont know, get it weighed. IMO it is best to do it with a full tank of gas so you know about how much weight you ahve in gas.

oh yeah i run a stock sized torque converter 700r4

 

wow, i thought a 700r4 car would weigh more than that, i should weigh mine because ive heard 82-84's are even lighter, but im afraid of the truck weigh station guy getting all mad at a car, anyone have that problem? also how exactly does going to a weigh station off the highway work?

 

Just go to one when it's not real busy. Mostly they don't care, they'll weigh it for you. Alot of places, if they give you the slip they have to charge you for it (varies by state) but they'll tell you what it says or you can see the readout.

You just drive your front wheels onto the scale and stop, and get the readout; then pull up to where your rears on it, and get that reading, and add them up.

I've had several cars weighed that way at times. Last time I had my 83 weighed, it was 3570 lbs; that's a T-5 car, fiberglass hood, SFCs, iron heads, full tank of gas, me, enough of my stuff moving from the West Coast to this place to last me for a few months so there were a few suitcases, golf clubs, musical instruments, etc.; a toolbox and spare (full highway trip setup); full interior; A/C running while on the scale. This car weighs about 3250 with ¼ of gas, empty out of cargo, and me (full interior though).

 

Yeah, I didn't go to one off the highway, but it is an official station. They charge $6 if you want the slip, the lady in there let me drive on for free. I just read the screen. I didn't do that front back thing, just the whole car.

 

Just weighed my car yesterday. 3500 pounds w/out me in it! That's with full AC, full interior, a heavy *** sub box, amps, etc etc

Weighed a bone stock 93 LT1 Z28... 3460 ! lol I guess those glass fenders are worth 40 pounds ? .. What does your car weigh ?

 

Third gen cars are the lightest F-Bodies of all the generations. 1982-1984 are the lightest. 2nd gens are the heaviest if I am not mistaken. !st and fourth are about the same I think.

 

I thought the plastic fenders and such they put on at the factory were polyeurethane?

 

water is actualy 8.34 pounds per gallon.

 

i weighed my moms truck at a bushel center..and it said it only weighed 2,800 pounds

RB why do u have to drive on with only 2 wheels first?

 

1st gens were the lightest not third gen's.

 

Depends on the scales....

Most of the ones I've run across have been the ones that are about 3 or 4 feet long, and wide enough for a truck. Designed for one axle, or pair of axles, at a time. I don't recall ever happening to use one of the ones that's big enough to put a whole vehicle on at a weigh station, although I've seen them elsewhere like junkyards. I guess it's just whichever kind the state you're in happened to buy.

 

Some businesses like the ones that make, sell & deliver asphalt will have the fullsize scales. The ones I've seen will take an 18 wheeler with room to spare.

These guys will also have check weights as that is how they pay/charge, especially if they do work for a dept of transportation or municipality.

I always figured these cars were between 3000 & 3500 pounds.

 

The 1970, 1971, and i think 1972 camaro's weigh about 3300 or so also.

 

2nd gens (atleast i thought) weighed between like 3600 and 3800, they are by far the heaviest

edit: and i think that includes all years of 2nd gens, from 70 through 81, maybe the early ones weighed a little less but that still would more than likely leave them over the 3500lb mark

 

I'm figuring mine to weigh between 3,050 and 3,150. I've done a few things to lighten the fat lady up!

 

Im just going by what NASTYz28.com says. it said the weight of the earlier second gen weighed in about 3300. But that might be wrong so i dont know.

 

this is full race weight with driver? what have you done to it?

 

Yeah I'd like to know that too !! lol

 

How much is the AC compressor worth (lbs), I just yanked mine today while I changed my header manifold gaskets. I yanked it because it doesn't work, and it looks a lot better with out it, but now that I think about it, it did seem to weigh quite a bit!

 

The entire A/C system on one of these cars weighs somewhere around 40 lbs. That would include the compressor, condenser, evaporator, controls, evap housing, etc.

 

The above post by me was race weight estimate with-out driver.

It weighed 3,278 bone stock with the automatic and maybe 1 or 2 gallons of gas (she was running on fumes). Then I removed ALL of the emissions stuff (smog pump, AIR tubes, all the other crap on passenger side of the motor that pertains to emissions), then I lost 30 or more pounds getting rid of the stock exhaust system (from heavy iron manifolds to the heavy dual cats and piping) cause I switched to long tubes / mufflex y-pipe etc. Then I got rid of that HEAVY 700r4 and I swapped in a T-56 (I cant even pick up the 700r4 even with-out the convertor on it, but I can curl the 6-speed!). Then I removed the spare tire and jack. Next I removed all the padding and junk under the carpet, then reinstalled just the carpet. I removed 5 lbs (I weighed it) of un-necessary wiring from former owner (2 old alarm harness', six-disc changer cables, amp power and ground cables, and a laptop serial to ECM (probably DFI at one time) cable that was ran all the to the back in the rear storage box. Then I lost a few more pounds by ditching the stock crappy seats and using seats from a 96 Z-28 (much more comfortable and lighter than the stockers). There's a couple more little odds and ends but thats about it. When I get arround to taking it to the track, I'll weigh it again and post the diet results.

 

so your car has factory AC delete? how did it weigh sub 3300 stock? mine weighed 3340 full race weight and i only weigh 160 lbs my list of mods in is my first post. i believe you can get your car to what you say pretty easily, but stock??

 

The car was bone stock with NO gas (maybe 1 or 2 gallons at most)when I weighed it and it DOES have AC. I dont know what the previous 2 owners have done to it, but everything seemed to be in place and nothing at all appeared to be missing (back in 1999 when I bought it). If I would have had a full tank of gas, it would have weighed (13 gallons at 7 lbs each plus 3,278) 13 x 7 = 91. 91 lbs + 3,278 lbs = ~ 3,369 lbs with a full tank. That weight does not sound unusual to me at all for a 3rd gen camaro. I'm figuring with all the mods I've done that the car lost 150 - 200 lbs max. Like I said, I'm figuring the car now weighing in at 3,050 - 3,150 (somewhere in there depending on how much gas I have in the car at the time). But we'll see when I put her back on the scale!

 

Why would the 82-84's be lighter? Just curious because mine is an 83.

 

They have less plastic dripping off of them; no air bags; smaller wheels & tires; some of the Z28s have the composite hoods; lots of them came with aluminum drums; ... I'm sure there are other reasons, those just are just a few that come right to the top of my head.

 

I just weighed mine too.

Came to 3205 lbs without me in it and 3/4 tank of gas. The car is bone stock except spare tire and jack removal.

1988 IROC-Z G92 with factory A/C delete.


P.S. Also weighed my Jeep ZJ and it came to 4400lbs

 

How much gas dude? How are yall guys getting such low numbers??? I think my stock metal hood with a scoop (and a bunch of bondo) is making me fat. Fiberglass hood might be coming though (4").

 

I had 3/4 of a tank.

I dunno man I have the T-5 which is lighter than the TH700-R4. Also I just have power windows and the ERS speaker system for options. That's it.

What do you have for options? The tech data on the main page puts me at 3250 lbs, so I'm almost at the specified number. Somehow I managed to lose 45lbs. Maybe the spare tire and jack weigh 45lbs

 

power mirrors, power windows, power locks. first post says what i have done in the way of weight reduction. i think my hood is screwing me over weight wise. whatcha think

 

I think the AC stuff, the auto tranny and the hood is enough to make it heavier than mine. It isnt that much heavier.

 

brodyscamaro, your car is a feather.

my car weight. and i had a empty tank of gas.



i really think the weigher was off

 

no ac, but my hood and tranny might be able to make up the difference

 

Yeah the first gen camaros were the lightest, then third gens, fourth gens next and finally second gens were the elephants of the crowd. My car weighs 3776 lbs. The earlier second gens were lighter than the later ones due to bumper laws. 70-73 were much lighter than 74 and up camaros because laws were passed to make stronger (heavier) bumpers.

 

I had my last car weighed at the dump. I've posted the result, but don't recall what it was. I think I'm going to try a lumber yard this time (no semi stopping speed bumps there).

 

gasoline and avgas have the same mass so they weigh the same at 6.7 lbs per gallon. you should be able to get an accurate weight of the fuel in the tank using this weight measure. jet fuel is a little lighter at anywhere from 6.3-6.7 lbs per gallon. useless info to pass on.

 

I thought my 3205lbs was heavy but that's just because all my friends in VW golfs and Civic's were weighing in too!!

 

2950 with a 1/2 tank of gas, without me - and that before the cat/egr/air pump removal!

 

Mine weighed 3520 with 1/4 tank of gas, me, small 12" JL1256 sub in a small box, amprack with 2 amps.
No A/C or smog, 305 LG4, T5, Power Everything, full interior.
I wieghed 145 pounds.

 

I wonder WHY these cars would weigh so differently. I mean you got one guy that claims his car weighs 2900 and another (like me) that weighs 3600. Now where the HELL would the extra 700 pounds come from ? This isn't nickel and dime BS like ... A/C... 700R4 vs T5 differences.... sub in the trunk.... etc etc
While all that will add up it certainly doesn't add up to hundreds of pounds. So what is it ? Where's the fat ??? Or... are the scales just way off ? lol

 

Going to try and get mine weighed soon... transmission shop guy has a mini stock he races plus a set of scales Even find out what the weight balance is.

 

The best place to weigh your car is at a truck weigh station. These are monitored and calibrated ALOT more regularly than a track scale because the 18-wheeler stations are state funded, not privately funded.

 

I was at the sniffer and supposedly they weighed my car in at 3752lbs with a full tank of gas, me, and the tester sitting in the car. I figure my car is in the range of 3,400lbs without me in it. So I'm probably averaging about 3,550lbs to 3,600lbs race weight depending on how full the tank is.

 

I weighed my car today at the truck weigh station on I-70. It weighed 3440# with 3/4 tank of gas and the spare tire/ jack installed. Pretty fat, but Its a convert. I got no problem taking out mustang GT's but the new mach 1 or the svt cobra are gonna be a problem. The cobra convert is 3300# with 390 hp. S***. ..........bob

 

You can curl a 700r4? It isnt light but I can curl one. I used to lift constantly tho. I benched about 235lbs when I was 16. Since I was about 17 I havent lifted much at all (almost 19). Maybe it payed off? I lifted the 700r4 into the back of a dodge ram pretty easily.

I figure my car is slightly less than brodys. Since I have removed the compressor...ooo wait maybe not I forgot I have T tops