Jim E
Donation Time
So how much does a V6 Alpine tip the scales at and what is the balance front to back and side to side. Not many folks have the set up to scale a car but I happen to have a buddy who races dirt track and owns a set of scales. So yestarday I took my S3 GT V6 and stuck it on the scales.
For some base line information my car is a right hand drive, has no bumpers, no hard top and at the time we scaled the car it had about 3 gallons of gas in it.
A couple of things surprised me at first about the numbers then when I thought about it it made sense, or at least I think it does...
The total weigh came in at 2107 pounds which is a good bit lighter than I thought the car would be, having always used 2400 pounds as a base line for an alpine I was sure it would have gone at least that much. I supose some of this is due to the no bumpers but does not seem like it would be enough there for the car to be that light, then the gas tank was a bit low so perhaps between the two it would have come closer to 2400 pounds. Anyway somewhere there is about 300 pounds missing or I am off on what a stock engined Alpine weighs in at.
Here are the read outs from each corner.
Left front 570 pounds 27% / Right front 602 pounds 28.5%
Left rear 466 pounds 22.1%/ Right rear 470 pounds 22.3%
The first thing that jumped out at me from these numbers is the right front being heavy but then the car is RHD and the battery is on the right side so that sort of make sense.
Next the car is heavier in the front than I would have thought but a tank of gas would equal this out a bit. I also did not have a spare or jack in the car.
So as it scaled the car is 55.5% front and 44.4% rear.
Side to side 49.1% left side and 50.8% right side.
Some other things to think about to go with the numbers is the car has a set of bolt on LAT traction bars and a set of Western minilites with 205-60-13 Sumitomos.
The weigh is what really surprises me, now I want to scale a stock engine Alpine for comparison.
Oh and the car was weighed with no driver.
For some base line information my car is a right hand drive, has no bumpers, no hard top and at the time we scaled the car it had about 3 gallons of gas in it.
A couple of things surprised me at first about the numbers then when I thought about it it made sense, or at least I think it does...
The total weigh came in at 2107 pounds which is a good bit lighter than I thought the car would be, having always used 2400 pounds as a base line for an alpine I was sure it would have gone at least that much. I supose some of this is due to the no bumpers but does not seem like it would be enough there for the car to be that light, then the gas tank was a bit low so perhaps between the two it would have come closer to 2400 pounds. Anyway somewhere there is about 300 pounds missing or I am off on what a stock engined Alpine weighs in at.
Here are the read outs from each corner.
Left front 570 pounds 27% / Right front 602 pounds 28.5%
Left rear 466 pounds 22.1%/ Right rear 470 pounds 22.3%
The first thing that jumped out at me from these numbers is the right front being heavy but then the car is RHD and the battery is on the right side so that sort of make sense.
Next the car is heavier in the front than I would have thought but a tank of gas would equal this out a bit. I also did not have a spare or jack in the car.
So as it scaled the car is 55.5% front and 44.4% rear.
Side to side 49.1% left side and 50.8% right side.
Some other things to think about to go with the numbers is the car has a set of bolt on LAT traction bars and a set of Western minilites with 205-60-13 Sumitomos.
The weigh is what really surprises me, now I want to scale a stock engine Alpine for comparison.
Oh and the car was weighed with no driver.
