quote:Originally posted by Corey Price:quote:A stock Cleveland from Air Cleaner to Pan including headers must be in the 700lbs range.
Scott,
I think it's more like about 570 lbs.
http://www.tmeyerinc.com/engineweight.html
No wonder our cars are so fast- even 3000 lbs is light.
Still looking for answers to my first post.
A 289 Ford in a Shelby is 450. Put aluminum heads and intake on the C and you are right there.
For a v8 with displacement, that is not heavy.
You can get the car down to around 2800 with not too much trouble. That's around what the Mark II (427 GT40s) raced at.
What I am wondering is what the factory lightweight chassis cars weighed in at?
You'd have to punch a lot of holes in the chassis to matter and the aluminum skins were mounted on steel spiders and frames.
So what did that save, maybe 150 pounds?
Interesting that they seemed to run on iron blocks and the aluminum C blocks already existed having been cast largely in '68 for Fords racing program.
Gapp & Rousch had them as well as Dyno Don Nicholson. Why not DT?
I don't think DT's race program was well run at all? How could they bitch about lack of race support from Ford, then go off screaming about don't tell us what to do?