Shell weight?
 

Picking up a 99 shell later this week that's been completely stripped. Any idea what the weight of it will be? Since it's not a rolling chassis I need to plan ahead to be able to move it around the garage.

No clue, I would guess 1700 depending on how stripped it is. Also if no one knows roll that bitch on a truck scale. Oh and since it is stripped do this,

http://flyinmiata.com/tech/seamweld.php

Highly doubt it will be 1700 since there is no engine/drivetrain/suspension/or anything.

Completely stripped 800-1100lbs imo

Please, do it for the children.

http://memimage.cardomain.com/ride_i...0004_large.jpg

It's just a bare shell. Only the unibody with quarter panels, windshield and the gas tank.

800lbs or less

Rumor has it that the '99 shell is lighter than the '89/'90 shell.

Fuck it. 300 pounds.

There's gotta be a way to turn an engine hoist into a scale

You can easily move one around on a couple of furniture dollies.
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I think it is still less than that. When mine was stripped with all the glass doors and trunk lid still on it I could still lift half of it pretty easy. Two or three guys could carry it around without too much trouble.

It might come down to your definition of stripped shell however.

Bob

lol, yup if we were betting cash I think I would go for 400 if the diff/susp/engine/trans/no doors/fenders/glass

You can by using a strain gauge.


My guess on the empty shell is 600lbs...but Rob Harris is the one to ask there.

4-500. You could probably walk it around with three people. Our project evo's shell is light enough that three people can lift it on and off of the moving dollies and it's a 4 door so..

I moved a completely stripped shell onto a car trailer with one other guy. All we had were 2 small moving dolies to roll the rear end around on. If I had to guess I would say 350lb, 400 at max.

A few of us were able to lift it off the trailer and into the garage without any issues. Much easier than we thought it was going to be. Thanks.

Last shell that was taken down to the scrap yard weighed 400ish with absolutely nothing in it. No doors, subframes, wiring, panels etc. It was in a wreck in the front but that just moved some stuff around and didn't really mess with the weight too much. Still had the windshield though.

My '91 bare tub without a windshield weighed 466. With enough body parts to complete the outer perimeter of the body including uncut doors it was 603.

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Very interesting. My stuff is always hauled off by a local scrap guy that drives around all day looking for metal. He just said it was around 400, so kudos to you for more exact figure. That is really interesting to see with the body pieces with it as well. Thanks for taking the time to post all that up.

The guys at Trackspeed are stripping a 99 for me. Going to acid dip Monday. Maybe somewhere in there we can get it weighed before it gets dipped.

That would be cool to see and compare to the 91 weight to see if the shell really is lighter than the early NA.

Done and loaded on the trailer ready for delivery to the acid dipper. :D
It would be interesting to see what the weight difference is before and after the dip.

Acid ipping should make a real difference. Even caustic dipping which just removes the non-metal crap on the tub. I've already taken off more than 25lbs of sound deadener and undercoating with wire wheels. But I can't get an accurate weight because I've also trimmed off brackets, cut out wheelwells and removed the windshield frame.

I will bring my scales to strip clean

Lots of guys have gutted doors, but the bare door shells on the early NA weighed 32lbs and I trimmed them down to 11lbs. That included removing the impact bar on the outer skin and the complete inner portion of the door.

Please don't whine about unsafe door lightening. This isn't a track car. It's an autocross car. And there will be serious issues with the "cage" that slant towards stiffness and low-n-light weight at the cost of impact protection.

Stock door with all unboltable parts removed first, then two of the gutted door.

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Body parts that serve no function add 137lbs to my car?! Hmm....

Even the 2 feet of garage space I'd gain front and back is tempting.

495 pounds bare 99 shell with out doors

495 lbs before. 461 lbs after so 34 lbs lost in acid dip. The steel does not look severely etched plus all the plastic and rubber plugs survived. So I think that's just paint, tar and undercoat weight.
http://949racing.com/Enduro/stripped_tub.jpg

Very nice guys. Emilio can we get a build thread on that 99? People might be interested how it was built later in the year...

http://www.949racing.blogspot.com/

Not much for forum build threads so the blog will be it.

Did the acid dipping take the bondo off, contributing slightly to the 34 pounds lost?
Good news all those plastic bits survived. Let us know when you don't have enough time to put it back together. Can't want to drive this thing and :winner:.

Bondo is all gone. Yeah, I think we are gonna have some win going on in this thing.