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Originally Posted by cf6mech
If you read the Vorshlag blog,.....I gained a measly 100 LBS and kept the exact front to back bias......since then I have lost even more weight by removed A/C compressor and condenser.....removed all air bags and wiring....Stereo speakers and wiring etc.etc...(track car)..but a 100lbs gain with the same balance for a trade off of 372whp and 465ftlbs of torque on pump gas NA is all win to me.
* Vorshlog before correction on weight bias....but total weight gain is unchanged *
The initial car came to us at 2682 pounds (no back seat + 17x9" wheels + roll bar + race seats + front BBK) and with the LS1 + T56 it is now 2816 pounds, for a gain of 134 pounds. I'm a little surprised by that amount of gain, honestly, because my initial best-case estimate of a 50 pound gain wasn't that accurate. Some of this gain is added fuel weight; the car came to us with less than a gallon of E85 in the tank, and now has a 1/3rd of a tank of 93 octane - maybe 35 pounds more fuel than before. So the real gain from the LS1/T56 Magnum XL swap was about 100 pounds.
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It is not important the weight per se. It is more important where you gain or lose weight. Is it in the low end of the car or is it on the high end? Have you seen the 14R60 project? The engineers were struggling to gain a few lbs. from the roof of the car. Is it so important to lose a few lbs? Answer is yes if you lose this weight from the highest part of the car.
Anyway, I stop the discussion here. I am not saying that you don't have a nice car and a fast car. Your car should be even faster than the 14R60 project car. I am all saying that it is different car.