Hopefully, NASCAR will have records on the as-run weights of the various
cars.
And, as I mentioned, the lighter the D500-1's, the BETTER the D501's
performed, in comparison, as the D501's certainly had undercoating on
them, and full OEM equipment, whereas I can only imagine that every
conceivable short-coming/weight- reduction effort was taken
advantage-of, on the factory-campaigned D500-1's.
So, are you saying that the '56 Coro D500-1 would be the ONLY-known car
which would weigh about what its "shipping weight" would be for the
Poly engine, and not(-even) with the Hemi heads?
The answer might just come from NASCAR's records.......
Neil Vedder
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- From: "David Homstad" <dhomstad@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 6 Nov 2007 02:04:17 -0600
Neil,
A CRL 2 door hardtop body is about 250 lbs heavier than a 2 door Coronet
sedan. Subtract another 25 each for the aluminum intake and spare tire, 100
for the PowerFlite, 50 for the power steering, 10 for the power brakes, 20
for the heater, and a dash one should weight in around 3400, based on Hot
Rod's test car weigh-in at 3880. The gas tank also holds 120 lbs of fuel,
but we don't know how much was in the test car when weighed.
Dave Homstad
56 Dodge D500
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Just checked the 5/56 Hot Rod (man: EVERYBODY should have this issue in
their libraries!) and determined that a 1956 Belvedere : " ...weighed in
at an even 3700 pounds. Of this, 2100 pounds, or 57% of the total was on
the front wheelsand 1600 pounds,or 43% was on the rear wheels."
And, oh yeah, HR also tested a 1956 CRL (regular) D500 , and said , in
their Performance Chart, that the car weighed in at 3,880 pounds
(damn, I'm good) with 2200 lbs, 56.5% on the front, and 1680 pounds,
43.5% on the rear wheels.
Neil Vedder
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