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LX shell weight

Started by rexy , Jun 06 2013 08:55 AM

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#1 rexy

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Posted 06 June 2013 - 08:55 AM

Anybody know what a bare LX sedan shell weighs. No doors or other hang ons of course.

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Posted 06 June 2013 - 01:34 PM

Anybody know what a bare LX sedan shell weighs. No doors or other hang ons of course.

I'll have an educated guess at around 250kg totally bare.

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Posted 06 June 2013 - 09:33 PM

I had one weighed when it was dropped off at Sims, it was about 150 KG.

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Posted 11 June 2013 - 02:35 AM

^^ 150 kgs ! Lol ...So you think an approx 5 meter long steel shell weighs a bit more than an average man?? Funny !!

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Posted 11 June 2013 - 08:41 AM

haha

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Posted 11 June 2013 - 12:50 PM

Don't think 150kgs is the average man, yes in America!

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Posted 11 June 2013 - 02:03 PM

Don't think 150kgs is the average man, yes in America!

Steady now.....not all of us eat that much

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Posted 11 June 2013 - 02:47 PM

Steady now.....not all of us eat that much

Or as Clarkson says you know an American has been in the car or built it by the hamburger juice stains everywhere ! :stirpot:

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Posted 11 June 2013 - 06:32 PM

Bad news for all the fat bastards of the world. The health care community regards the average male humans weight to be 70 kg.
I will let you know how heavy the shell feels when I get around to manhandling it out of the shed.

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Posted 12 June 2013 - 09:10 PM

^^ 150 kgs ! Lol ...So you think an approx 5 meter long steel shell weighs a bit more than an average man?? Funny !!

What the hell is your problem? Sims have ( or had) a scale for weighing scrap metal that would weigh 0 - 500 KG. That's where I got the figure from. If you weigh 150 KG, that's your issue.

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Posted 13 June 2013 - 01:58 AM

Yeah, and if you do your maths in a workshop method buy turning the car into a flat crushed box, it goes like this:-

Length ((5000mm x 750 x 2) + Width (1400 x 750 x 2 ) + Top & Bottom ( 5000 x 1400 x 2 )) x Average metal thickness 1.5 / cubic mm in a 10mm thick one square metre plate = Total Weight

7500000 + 2100000 + 14000000 x 35400000 / 10000000 x 76.76kgs = 271.73 kgs

I know you want accuracy, but this gives a rough idea. Dave I

p.s. looks like I am 120 kgs out

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Posted 13 June 2013 - 02:56 PM

maybe that 150kg shell had a been on bit of a weight loss (rust) program???? because SURELY sims scales wouldn,t have been out?? and in their favour???

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Posted 13 June 2013 - 03:56 PM

I took an absolutely bare R33 skyline shell to the scrappies here in brissy and it was 230kg - they are a similar sized car.

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Posted 13 June 2013 - 04:36 PM

When i bought my lx i was bare shell sitting on its guts. me and 2/3 mates lifted it on a car trailer (end at a time)

It would be bare minimum 150kg. Id be putting it closer to 200kgs.

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Posted 13 June 2013 - 06:48 PM

What the hell is your problem? Sims have ( or had) a scale for weighing scrap metal that would weigh 0 - 500 KG. That's where I got the figure from. If you weigh 150 KG, that's your issue.

A complete small block Chev with aluminium intake weighs around 250kg, you're saying a car shell weighs 100kg less? No way.

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Posted 13 June 2013 - 06:59 PM

Yeah, and if you do your maths in a workshop method buy turning the car into a flat crushed box, it goes like this:-

Length ((5000mm x 750 x 2) + Width (1400 x 750 x 2 ) + Top & Bottom ( 5000 x 1400 x 2 )) x Average metal thickness 1.5 / cubic mm in a 10mm thick one square metre plate = Total Weight

7500000 + 2100000 + 14000000 x 35400000 / 10000000 x 76.76kgs = 271.73 kgs

I know you want accuracy, but this gives a rough idea. Dave I

p.s. looks like I am 120 kgs out

Material thickness is more like 1.2mm Dave, so theres some of it.

I would be surprised if it was more than 250kg.

They only weigh around 1250 when there together....And theres a lot of "stuff" hanging off them.

I know three smallish guys can easily lift a bare LC/LJ shell, two on the back and me on the front. Box type ones although a bit bigger have the benefit of being able to remove the front guards etc.

Off topic, im 81kg, looks like i best loose some weight ey Rexy....Though i am 6'1....Dropped down to 74kg after my diet recently (was 105) and was way to skinny, Ribs back ribs hips veins everything hanging out. would hate to hit 70kg....

Cheers.

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Posted 13 June 2013 - 07:11 PM

Hi DJ,
I am being lean there as there is an inner and outer skin on all sides, so I will still lean towards the 250kgs mark

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Posted 13 June 2013 - 07:12 PM

Yeah righto. didun thunk of dat.

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Posted 13 June 2013 - 08:10 PM

I took an absolutely bare R33 skyline shell to the scrappies here in brissy and it was 230kg - they are a similar sized car.

Newer and likely stronger due to crash reg so likely heavier?
Hard to argue with an actual scale weight (150 kg)

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Posted 13 June 2013 - 08:25 PM

Hi Rexy,
Is the shell without the front bolt on guards?

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#21 _lxss5000_

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Posted 13 June 2013 - 08:31 PM

Newer and likely stronger due to crash reg so likely heavier?
Hard to argue with an actual scale weight (150 kg)

Look it like this if you and a mate can lift 75kg each 2 of you could easy lift a shell, i think that 4 blokes would struggle to lift a bare shell so i think 150 kg was simms ripping you off, think 300 + would be closer to the mark.

Whats one weigh complete? Over a tonne?

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#22 _Bomber Watson_

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Posted 13 June 2013 - 08:41 PM

Dont know to many guys who can easily lift 75kg.....

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Posted 13 June 2013 - 09:03 PM

A tube frame chassis weights about 220-250kg...

Edited by doucmyuc, 13 June 2013 - 09:03 PM.

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Posted 13 June 2013 - 09:10 PM

maybe that 150kg shell had a been on bit of a weight loss (rust) program???? because SURELY sims scales wouldn,t have been out?? and in their favour???

It was back around 1989 and there probably was some rust. No digital scales back then and the offer was for 150 KG of scrap metal. So some tolerances may have come into play. In any case, most replies seem to think a figure of around 200 KG is close to the mark. So since it seems rexy only wants to know because she wants to move it, either way it's going to be heavy.