We here at Vorshlag have always been obsessed with automotive related weights, and with a little work to even today's portly sports machinery the pork can be trimmed quite a bit. We've been posting weights since 1996, long before it became a big concern in the grass roots online racing community. As racers, we generally have to have to follow strict classing rules with regard to what can be removed or lightened. This page can show you how much weight can be found in various systems of your car, and what to expect with lightweight aftermarket replacement parts or removal.

Author & Pictures:	Fair
Add'l Content:	Hanchey
Date Posted:	06.01.96
Last Edited:	03.01.06

This weights page started out on Fair's first website, with weights of wheels and tires used in autocrossing, back when websites just started popping up on the public internet. Later, the focus changed to include numbers on engine blocks, heads, intakes the like. Then anything not bolted down in my garage. Now that Vorshlag has corner weight scales and does corner weighting for customers, we will soon be adding verified car weights of popular autocross cars!

Many of the weights below were made at Houston Performance by Mike, John, and Fair from July 1999 to 2000. We started out with Ford engine components, but then included transmissions, suspension pieces, brake system parts, GM engine weights, and interior components. We weighed everything with the same digital scale in HP's shop. When we saw something interesting, we weighed it.

All weights were of the individual component assemblies unless otherwise noted. The measurements were taken with the same digital scale (0-300 lbs. in .5 lb increments) on smooth and level concrete surface. The scale was been checked several times with others, and was also used for the filling and sale of nitrous in the shop (its a decent one).

On Dec 29, 2003 we discovered this page on the Chevrolet website (it has since gone away - this is why we like to make screenshots and host this data on our own site). It shows the "total dressed engine weight" of 457 pound (auto) to 497 lbs (manual) of the LS1 engine. Wow, the LS1 manual trans' "dual mass" flywheel is 40 pounds heavier than the automatic's flexplate! (this is why we encourage LS1 owners to opt for an aluminum flywheel when class rules and/or budgets allow) We don't know if that's with accessories or not. We will still weigh our dressed LS1 when we get one.

Also, note the engine block weight of 107.1 lbs - within 2% of our measurement. LS1 heads are shown to weigh 20.3 pounds each, the composite LS1 intake is 15.9 pounds, etc. Good tech, straight from the source!