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Old Jun 17, 2016 | 01:04 AM
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Weighed my '02 C5Z at the city dump it weighed in at 3,080 lbs give or take 20 lbs. That was with half tank of fuel. Love how freaking light these Z cars are!
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Old Jun 17, 2016 | 01:15 AM
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Originally Posted by ssmoke-u
Weighed my '02 C5Z at the city dump it weighed in at 3,080 lbs give or take 20 lbs. That was with half tank of fuel. Love how freaking light these Z cars are!
Hopefully you didnt leave it at the dump!!!
It just made me laugh when I read WHERE you weighed your car.
Enjoy the car,Rick
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Old Jun 17, 2016 | 01:31 AM
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Originally Posted by ssmoke-u
Weighed my '02 C5Z at the city dump it weighed in at 3,080 lbs give or take 20 lbs. That was with half tank of fuel. Love how freaking light these Z cars are!
We usually weigh at the local landfill ourselves. Checked them against the scales at the track and they're pretty much dead on. You guys with featherweight cars just kill me. We're 3540 with almost no gas in the tank. Supercharger plus 300 pounds of stereo equipment and sound deadening material make for one heavy Corvette.
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Old Jun 17, 2016 | 01:54 AM
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Originally Posted by raosterkamp
Hopefully you didnt leave it at the dump!!!
It just made me laugh when I read WHERE you weighed your car.
Enjoy the car,Rick
Very common place to weigh a car, might just weigh mine soon.
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Old Jun 17, 2016 | 01:57 AM
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I use to be 3080 with half a tank now I'm 3330lbs with a full tank iron block and YSi setup.
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Old Jun 17, 2016 | 06:06 AM
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3090 here with a full tank a few yeats back. Since then I put 18x10.5 rear wheels up front, did headers, and a Spal fan so lighter overall.
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Old Jun 17, 2016 | 07:24 AM
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Originally Posted by ssmoke-u
Weighed my '02 C5Z at the city dump it weighed in at 3,080 lbs give or take 20 lbs. That was with half tank of fuel. Love how freaking light these Z cars are!
Damn that's nice and light. Have you done any mods that would remove weight?
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Have never weighed my car, but would be nice to know what the number is. May have to visit the local landfill and see if I can use their scale.
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Damn that's nice and light. Have you done any mods that would remove weight?
I was really surprised. I have heavier wheels, I have long tubes, high flow cats, borla stingers and an LS3. I was expecting heavier. Haven't done anything in the way of weight removal, so I'm not sure where the weight savings is from.
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Originally Posted by ssmoke-u
I was really surprised. I have heavier wheels, I have long tubes, high flow cats, borla stingers and an LS3. I was expecting heavier. Haven't done anything in the way of weight removal, so I'm not sure where the weight savings is from.
You can also go where they sell rocks and dirt and stuff by weight. Or any old truckstop scale.
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Grain elevator... less chance of picking up a nail than the dump
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Met a guy at the autocross this weekend with an '01 Z. Showed me his printout from when he weighed it a couple of weeks before... 3100 dead on the money.
I lol'd when I remembered my 08 VW GTI was 3150.
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You can also weigh your ride at truck stops
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Mine was 3081 with the Corbeau A4's LT's and forgestar wheels 18/19 and about 1/2 tank of fuel at a truck stop.
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