350 chevy swap question

[84cutspreme]

Hey any of you guys out there that have swapped the 350 in already...got any round about weight of car with new motor? If anyone has checked new weight and has a similar setup. I have stock 7.5 rear still...79' 350 Chevy, 85' 700r-4, full dual exhaust, g-force dual cross-member and 15x7 AR Outlaw I rims. Oh and it's in an 84 cutlass. I'm not looking for a perfect answer or anything, just a round about figure.

 

[patmckinneyracing]

Only difference is mine has a stock cross member and a th350 (soon to be 700r4). Came in at just under 3000lb with me in it and no spare tire in the back. My car is a 80' malibu but most g bodies are relatively the same weight...I think.

 

[84cutspreme]

thanks very much for the reply, I figured it wouldn't change that much. title says like 3200 with the original v6 n 200c trans

 

[DrRansom442]

you sound a tad light Pat, what all has been taken off of the 'bu? I can not find my Owner's manual, I aint going out in the cold nor do the GM parts or service manuals list gvw but I was thinking it's 3200 lbs for tudor V-6 models and upwards of 3800 lbs for fodor V-8s.

 

[patmckinneyracing]

Well I'll just list what the car does not have and go from there.

1.) No AC/Heater system (air box completely gone as well)
2.) Aftermarket racing buckets
3.) Has no emissions on
4.) No catalytic converter
5.) Took all the stuff out of the trunk like the jack, spare tire, and what not


By now I've added factory bracing all around and a sound system. Plus I've gained a couple pounds since the beginning of my freshman year in college :lol: :lol: All in all I would say she's at 3250 right now. Main reason our cars weighed so much with the v8 is because they had all that cast iron and emission junk on the engine which weighed down the car big time. I could remember chucking all that stuff and noticing a rise on the front end of my car way, way back when.

I found the old scale recept. Shows 3,014lb. I got out and asked the guy if it was in working order because I could not believe myself how light it was. I drove on and off the thing 3 times to verify and kept coming up with the same number.

 

[patmckinneyracing]

I can't imagine a malibu weighing almost 3800lbs. My 71' Roadrunner in bare bones stock form with no major options is 3800lbs. And those bodies were made a lot bigger, used thicker steel, and came with big block chrysler motors in them. I could understand a v8 maybe weighing 3400 to 3500lbs, but no where near 3800lbs unless you got all the available luxo bomb options on that pup.

 

[FE3X CLONE]

My '87 came in at 3930lbs with me in it and a 1/4 tank of gas. At the time I weighed around 250lbs. Add another 80lbs for a full tank of gas and the car itself was in the neighborhood of 3760lbs.

At the time it had the 455 with aluminum intake but everything else was pretty much stock. Manual crank windows, door locks, etc. I did have a speaker box in the back that weighed around 80lbs though.

I know most of the G-body Cutlass's with V8's were in the 3400-3600lb range depending on options.

 

[DrRansom442]

those old cars had a lot less electronics too. My neighbor scaled his 66 Impala SS283 (yeah that's no typo it even had a 'glide) and the damned thing weighed less than his 67 GTO 'vert and less than the door tag on my (then 86 Salon) G-body. I forget the rough numbers but I was totally amazed ... that thing was a BARGE!

 

[patmckinneyracing]

Just depends on what the cars are. I think the cutlasses weighed more than the malibus and el caminos. If you look at the malibu/el camino, they did not come with a lot of the options, bracing, and other stuff that the BOP's came with. Everytime I see a stock chevy gbody compared to a BOP, they have considerably less luxury and performance items on them.