FYI curb weight of my 740iL

[M5James]

Ran to the local Waste Management scale near my house at had my car weighed...nose, rear, and total. Total with me in the car tipping in at 230 and 1/4 tank of gas was 4340. 2260 in the front and 2080 in the rear, making the cars weight distribution at 52/48 bias, but remember if you take out the fat kid from the front seat that would be 49/51....pretty damn close to me I'm sure someone knows what fuel weighs per gallon, but I have no idea. The only things I have done to lighten the car is remove all the air filters (hood/dash), panels under the dash (no more chime!), engine cover, carbon fiber intake tube w/filter, padding behind rear seat in the trunk, took out the metal plate where the skibag would go, and swapped in an Optima Red Top battery.....ya, so I MIGHT have saved like a pound, but whatever . It is a work in progress, I am loving the fact that I can actually set my speaker phone in the old phones cradle and be able to hear totally fine

[caracas_e30]

Damn. I love the old 7s

[M5James]

Old, the luxo barge is newer than yours is I like the flatter wider body of mine than that of the newer rounded out style. I felt the same way about my 91 M5 compared to my buddys 01 M5, I just wasn't a huge fan of the exposed headlights, kinda wish they made a conversion kit to update the front end a little, ya know!

[Shockwave179]

Nice car I'm also on e32underground.com

[///02bmw325i///]

Nice. My cousin used to have a 98 740iL

[M5James]

Ya, if you guys wanna see what the fat kid is capable of, check out the Pacific NW forum, and then the Golden Gardens meeting. There was maybe like 20 of us for a meet, and 4 of us broke out and did a little drive to Issaquah and had some fun in a elementary school parking lot, just look here for the pics of me tossing around the barge

http://www.pbase.com/danelmanperry/golden_gardens_meet

[bfdtm]

i could have sworn my 3 is 4200 pounds, am i crazy or is bmw nuts for gettin a bigger car to weight only 100 more then its smaller brother.

[powerslave]

No. Your 3 series should not be 4200 lbs unlesss you weigh in at about a thousand yourself.

[fast1]

I think avjet or jet fuel which is really a diesel weighs like 7.750182lbs. per gallon which puts gas somewhere around 5 i think !

[powerslave]

Gasoline weighs 6-6.5 pounds per gallon.

[bmxcm]

Originally Posted by bfdtm

i could have sworn my 3 is 4200 pounds, am i crazy or is bmw nuts for gettin a bigger car to weight only 100 more then its smaller brother.

u must be going off the tag on the inside of your door...thats gross vehicle weight, in reality it weighs somewhere in the neighborhood of 3100-3200 lbs dry i forget the exact # and dont feel like looking it up...

[Eric]

you cannot remove 230lbs from the front axle. you are sitting in the middle/left of the car, your weight is distributed most to the left two wheels, not the front two.

a gallon of gas weigh's 5.8-6.5lbs

a gallon of water weigh's 8.33lbs




BTW, my truck weigh's 6790

[Howies]

my friends 72 chevy with a 452 (thats 7.4L!) rings in at just under 8000. still faster than my integra through his second, (my third)

[Shockwave179]

Powerslave what kind of tint is that?

[Eric]

Originally Posted by Howies

my friends 72 chevy with a 452 (thats 7.4L!) rings in at just under 8000. still faster than my integra through his second, (my third)

no way he could weigh that much, old muscle cars are IIRC in the 4,000lb range. what model is it?