A friend is building a rotisserie. Anyone know the weight of the dry shell?
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I am also going to build one. I've seen some posts that say it is around 500lbs. I would think it may be a bit more. I'm thinking around 700 or 800 lbs just to be safe and that would be on the high side.
I'd vote 1,200, but are you going to wait to dress it? I think the Pantera race cars are 2,500 to 2,600.
Let's see. The race BB Cobras are 2,300 to 2,400. The body weighs 50#. You can calculate everything else going in or out.
The Pantera "chassis" has to be heavier then a Cobras 4" steel tubes?
Nah not 800#. More.
For a rotisserie that doesn't matter. You make it out of 3/4" plywood.
I can pick the entire side of a house up with three pairs of 2x4's in "a" frames, drive the feet closer with a hammer and up it goes. There you are talking TONS.
Let's see. The race BB Cobras are 2,300 to 2,400. The body weighs 50#. You can calculate everything else going in or out.
The Pantera "chassis" has to be heavier then a Cobras 4" steel tubes?
Nah not 800#. More.
For a rotisserie that doesn't matter. You make it out of 3/4" plywood.
I can pick the entire side of a house up with three pairs of 2x4's in "a" frames, drive the feet closer with a hammer and up it goes. There you are talking TONS.
I'll eat my shorts if the chassis is over 1000lbs. I would say in the area of 500lbs. I have moved this thing onto a dolly and back and forth onto the rotisserie several times. I know I can pick up both ends and with my back I shouldn't be (I should say lifting). I have needed to shift it around a few times and have a pretty good idea of the weight. The front is not too bad but the back is much tougher. The MGB was around 300 and 2 guys can carry that frame with no problem. 3 guys could carry the Pantera without too much problem; 2 in the back and one in the front.
Here is the dolly and rotisserie build:
http://www.rc-tech.net/pantera1/roto/roto.htm
That page shows how to get the height pretty close for a Pantera. Each is different as to the dirt, filler, paint and will change as you work on it. I was originally off a little. With a scale and a real simple weight and balance calculation will show you how much you need to move the balance.
As I did body work it also changes. I added a screw in pipe base for dumb bells to alter the pivot. The chassis would spin freely and stop at any point.
The construction time of the entire roto was a couple hours:
You cans the dumb bells in the next photo:
Here is the dolly and rotisserie build:
http://www.rc-tech.net/pantera1/roto/roto.htm
That page shows how to get the height pretty close for a Pantera. Each is different as to the dirt, filler, paint and will change as you work on it. I was originally off a little. With a scale and a real simple weight and balance calculation will show you how much you need to move the balance.
As I did body work it also changes. I added a screw in pipe base for dumb bells to alter the pivot. The chassis would spin freely and stop at any point.
The construction time of the entire roto was a couple hours:
You cans the dumb bells in the next photo:
My chassis with attached doors, pedal box and decklid are probably around or less than 800 lbs.
I can say this because it took 8 guys to lift it off a trailer and onto a dolly, of which I was one. I would estimate I lifted 100 lbs. We used two 4x6 pieces of lumber, 12' long running side-to-side to lift it evenly from the frame. Two guys on each side lifted.
I am with Gary on the less than 1000 lbs for sure.
I can say this because it took 8 guys to lift it off a trailer and onto a dolly, of which I was one. I would estimate I lifted 100 lbs. We used two 4x6 pieces of lumber, 12' long running side-to-side to lift it evenly from the frame. Two guys on each side lifted.
I am with Gary on the less than 1000 lbs for sure.
No one is going to know for sure until one gets weighed? I'd be interested in seeing the results.
I personally have no horse in this race so I have no vested interests in being right.
500#s seems to me about the weight of the GT40 steel tub. Weight reductions were attempted substituting aluminum components on to the original steel tub.
In my judgement, the Pantera isn't even in the same category. Just look at the size of the engine support sub chassis?
There are steel reinforcement plates in the Panteras substructure that the 40 doesn't have.
The front and rear chassis trusses/supports are 1" x 1" triangles.
I personally have no horse in this race so I have no vested interests in being right.
500#s seems to me about the weight of the GT40 steel tub. Weight reductions were attempted substituting aluminum components on to the original steel tub.
In my judgement, the Pantera isn't even in the same category. Just look at the size of the engine support sub chassis?
There are steel reinforcement plates in the Panteras substructure that the 40 doesn't have.
The front and rear chassis trusses/supports are 1" x 1" triangles.
Checked from the "Hemipanter" -pages http://www.hemipanter.se/#Weig...d%20weight%20savings
How about 253 kgs / 558,8 pounds ?
How about 253 kgs / 558,8 pounds ?
Good find.
Seems optimistically light to me, but what the heck, who says there is nothing to do in the middle of the Swedish winter except take your car apart and weigh it? Not me?
Seems optimistically light to me, but what the heck, who says there is nothing to do in the middle of the Swedish winter except take your car apart and weigh it? Not me?