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Old 06-30-2008, 06:19 PM
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And now the moment we have all been waiting for...well, at least me.

This is a picture of the scales. The car (in its current configuration) weighs 1771 pounds! Granted, it still needs a body and some other parts, but we put a windshield in and another seat and it weighed in at 1800 pounds. The body weighs about 100 pounds or so and hopefully there is not 100 more pounds of lights and such to go on the car. Our original goal was to have the car weigh below 2000 pounds and I think we have reached that goal. Our current cars weigh 2150 pounds, so we have lost 150 pounds somewhere...now, if I could just do the same!

Also, notice the weight distribution side to side. In the front it is perfect 433 pounds each and the rear is within 1% of each other. The 5 pounds heavier on the driver's side is because we had the wires crossed. It is actually 5 pounds heavier on the passenger side because the battery is on that side. The front to rear weight distribution is a nearly perfect 51% rear and 49% front.

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