I know one place they gained some weight was in the doors. The later cars have
side impact beams in the doors and are substantially heavier than the early
doors. But that is just one more small weight gain. So it might be a lot of
little things over the whole spectrum. Maybe the seats weigh more, the carpet
could be thicker, air pumps, air injection, dual exhaust pipes running the
length of the car etc. Lots and lots of little things that could increase the
weight over all.
Any other guess's?
Shawn
>===== Original Message From BigOldWumper@aol.com =====
>What could possibly have knocked the weight up by 400 pounds in the later
>cars? That's a lot of extra weight! I'm sure the emissions controls added a
few
>pounds, and the thick rubber bumpers a few more, but 400 pounds is quite a
bit,
>what else would have caused such a massive increase? The weight distribution
>numbers I've seen for the 6 are 51/49. But if the later cars gained that much
>weight, I'm not sure exactly where they ganined it, so that may have thrown
>off the weight distribution.
>-Sean
>
>In a message dated 1/1/2004 4:58:59 PM Pacific Standard Time,
>lang@isis.mit.edu writes:
>On Thu, 1 Jan 2004, Joseph Grant wrote:
>
>> I would like to ask if anyone knows what the total weight of a TR6 would
be?
>
>Depends on the year. The early cars weigh around 2200, the later ones
>weigh over 2600. The weights are published in the booke like The Triumph
>TR and others (including the Bentley manual reprint of the TR6 Handbook).
>
>> Also, do you know what the weight distribution is? Front vs. rear?
>
>Stock is pretty close to 50/50, it's like 51/49. You can get the static
>weight to almost 50/50, but it depends on filling the fuel tank and as you
>drive the car the weight bias changes.
>
>> Thanks and Happy New Year.
>>
>>
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Joe
>
>Happy New Year!
>rml
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