Had a chance to weigh my 1969 Nova SS with 400 SBC, aluminum heads/waterpump/driveshaft, TKO 600, 12 bolt axle, power front disc brakes, no options, bench seat, nitrous system, no traction helpers, no gas or people!
3214 pounds.
It was right what I expected within 20 pounds or so...with the addition of an aluminum flywheel and body work (hopefully removes 20-40 pounds of bondo!)...it will go lower.
This is 1100 pounds lighter than my brother BBC 1969 Caprice with the same driveline!
But the Caprice can seat six; for dinner! As Jay Leno used to joke about his early B-body Buick's.
I know were you are comming from. I currently have two mid 80 B-body cars as they are the only thing I can fit into. One is BBC powered the other has a thumpin' SBC 406. I would love to shed a half ton of weight and nock off another second off my times.
Sounds about right. Mine was 3314 lbs with a full tank, bench seat interior, all-steel car and iron-headed SBC with only the A/C yanked with a TH350 trans. Let me tell ya, rollbars and cages add weight!
Big Dave: The Caprice also makes nearly equal HP (although BBC torque) and runs .9 sec slower in the quarter. Kind of interesting comparison. It is a very cool car...
Which is being upgraded with AFR 315 heads and a hydraulic roller cam. Should be fun!
Big Dave: The Caprice also makes nearly equal HP (although BBC torque) and runs .9 sec slower in the quarter. Kind of interesting comparison. It is a very cool car...
So what did you do to get it that low and what options does it have?
I could say my 72 is under 1000 lbs with driver, but it is completely stripped of anything that bolts on sitting on a body dolly waiting for the body man to replace driver side floor boards, tail panel, passenger rocker (not rusted just dented heavily), and driver quarter (had a partial done, but I don't like how it looks in the trunk). Yea I'm starting to get a little retentive about the body on this thing! I want it perfect before I put it back together and that means re-doing a lot of work the previous owner had done to it. It isn't that the previous work doesn't look good it is just that it is not good enough for me!:yes:
I agree...I thought mine was fairly stripped of extraneous stuff...but still several hundred pounds than others. Admittedly, I do not have alloy wheels or skinnies, but...
I weiged my 69 this last weekend on the way home from the track.
Included a few tools, the slicks and jack. With me in it, 3650.
Car has glass bumpers, lexan side windows and a glass hood.
1 racing bucket. Also a full cage, full length 3.5" ehx with 4 mufflers, etc.
Rat motor, TH400 12 bolt.
So take me out, and the extra stuff, probably comes in at 3350 or so.
Gents,
FRYNTYR is my bud from Team Chevelle where we are regulars. His VERY FAST low-buck Welfare Nova has inspired me to procure a 68 CHARITY NOVA. IN fact, my 68 bare-bones car is sitting on FRYNTYR's trailer!
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