To the altered owners/drivers on here...

Mainly 125 inch wheelbase or near, what does your car race ready with driver weigh?

We got weighed at last event and were 2109lbs with driver

 

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I run a rear engined dragster, 270in wheelbase, blown all alum. big chevy with all carbon fiber body (spitzer). I weigh 165lbs and the car with me in it weighs 1940lbs ready to race. That being said I think, depending, on how much you weigh that sounds just about right. May be able to get it lighter but it may cost alot. However, net weight does not matter as much as you think as long as its not 5 or 6 hundred lbs. I know of several of my friends with dragsters that weigh close to 2200lbs that are real quick. Having the lbs. in the right place is far more important than just being light. Regards Jody Stroud

 

our car is 140" with a hemi/clutch setup. it weighed 1795 or so without me in the car...i'm 210, so we are right at 2000 with me in it.

 

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125" Massey Chassis, 23"T" 470" KB/Brad with Mert 14-71 Roots, Lenco 3 speed. Last weigh in was 2138 with me in it, I'm 188 lbs. I hope this helps...Mike

 

Altered Drivers

Our car is 125-inch wheelbase Mark Williams kit. 23T body.

Motor is KB stage-6 block with wedge heads
Powerglide tranny
1976 lbs ready to race with me in the car.

Hope this helps

 

same basic set up 125 wb rodeck alt body 1775 lbs

 

125" altered, 23T body, 427 chevy, 8-71 blower, all iron motor, with a glide, and it weighed 2110. I am 6'4" and 240.
I have not weighed it yet with the hemi.
Brian

 

In 1976 I had a funny car chassis altered built for me with a 23 "T" body from Roger McKracken that weight 18 pounds out of the mold. It was mounted funny car style (tilt, take off).

I had a 530 CI Arias hemi cast iron block and aluminum heads, collector headers, 400 turbo, small battery, two dominator carbs with a Ron Butler scoop and a small fiberglass radiator shell. It weighed 1,550 without me in it.

Still feel it was one of the nicest altered I have ever seen. Steve Reyes did a 3 full page spread on it in Popular Hot Rodding. It was sold to Evan Rodrick in El Paso Texas in 1984. After a handshake agreement to repurchase the car and get it back in 1990 he raced it one more time and proceeded to suff it into the concrete wall where it barrell rolled six times. The car gave it's life to save his.

RG

 

Our 125" rear engine altered weighs 1850 lbs race ready (with me in it) cast iron BBC, injected, no blower, lenco 2 spd w/ clutch. Will go up a little as we are adding a fire system this year.

 

Many thanks for all the replies, appreciate it, we can easily get some weight out of the car, the body we use take 3 of us to lift on, must be 200-250lbs alone.