The Official Component Weight Thread!!!

[85 Cutlass Brougham]

This thread is for posting the weight of various stock or aftermarket parts and components of your G body for the knowledge of all. It need not be a stock part, but be sure to put down the model of car, component, year, and engine (where applicable). For example, don't just say Iron SBC head, say Iron World Products head for SBC, etc. Anyhow, I will get the ball rolling with a few components I have weighed. I will be adding more, such as the Aluminum hood in the future. Please though, someone post the weight of the steel hood, bumpers, etc. ( Please make this a Sticky!!!)

Dash for Cutlass with no switches, gauges, radio or wiring: 23.6 lbs

R-4 A/C compressor with clutch: 17lbs

Weld Draglite wheel, 15x8.5: 14.8 lbs

Global West Upper front Control Arm: Just under 10 lbs ea.

Cutlass Supreme Brougham 60/40 split front seat, driver's side with power: 55.8lbs

1992-95 Honda Civic 2 door driver's seat with tracks: 33.2 lbs

Steel 85 Cutlass 2 door front fender stripped to bare steel: 11.6lbs

Plastic/aluminum Modine replacement radiator for 3rd gen V8 F car: 9.4 lbs

Power steering gear box, 1984 Monte SS quick ratio: 28.4lbs

Door Glass, 86 Monte Carlo: 15.8 lbs

T-5 manual transmission from V6 4th gen F body: 82lbs

Aluminum hood, with hinges and no springs: 25.4lbs

Fender with 2 paint jobs, Bondo, and primer surfacer: 12.4 lbs

Copper-Brass radiator from a 1972 AMC Hornet: 18lbs
(Please someone post a G body Copper-Brass 3 core)

Another area of weight savings most of us do not think about is the battery. I weighed a 35 series battery and got 38.8 lbs. I wonder what the small battery used in a Civic would weigh?

Complete cruise control system from 86 Monte Carlo: too light for my bathroom scale to measure.

Now, get out your bathroom scale and start weighing stuff!

 

[jonnyslick]

Where did the Aluminum hood come from?

 

[85 Cutlass Brougham]

The Junkyard. I found it by accident. It is super-hard to find one, but you may get lucky if you search for one. Mine was on an oddball car in that it was a Cutlass Salon with T tops and a diesel engine. You can also get bumpers with aluminum supports instead of steel, and they are far more common.

Anyhow, here's another addition:

Door Glass, 2 door (Monte Carlo): 15.8 lbs per side

 

[shotgun]

This is my ever changing spread sheet for 79 GP race car.

Click on Sheet 1

http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key= ... w_QcQHvESA


Anything in Italics is still in progress but is based on good info/fact.

 

[HFX]

(Please someone post a G body Copper-Brass 3 core)

That would require me removing mine. Not happening right now buddy. You can get an after market aluminum one pretty easily that will replace it. However, expect to have to make shims to make them fit properly.

I'll check when I get home if I still have the shipping invoice which may have the weight on it.

 

[Coveted]

I can way my front bumper with aluminum support, and potentially my hood today/tomarrow

I already ditched all the stuff I stripped off the car or id be able to weigh more stuff.

 

[85 Cutlass Brougham]

(Please someone post a G body Copper-Brass 3 core)

That would require me removing mine. Not happening right now buddy. You can get an after market aluminum one pretty easily that will replace it. However, expect to have to make shims to make them fit properly.

I'll check when I get home if I still have the shipping invoice which may have the weight on it.

It would require me removing mine as well. I am not asking anyone to take their car apart, only for those of us who have our cars torn down to take a few minutes and weigh some of the components we already have removed.

 

[dougfather]

I made this a sticky. I combined a few posts into one. More to come.

 

[85 Cutlass Brougham]

Weighed another thing tonight:

1996 Honda Civic battery: 28 lbs.-- A savings of 10.8 lbs over the stock one in my G body. It is a top post, so you would need the adapters to make it work.

 

[85 Cutlass Brougham]

Stock steel hood from a 1979 AMC Spirit ( slightly smaller than a G body hood) 41lbs.

speaker box with two 10 in subs: 36lbs

GM direct drive starter motor with solenoid: 14lbs

15x7 steel wheel with 225 70 R15 tire: 54lbs ea.

16x8 aluminum Enkei 92 wheel with 225 60 16: 41.8lbs