Engine Weight
03-17-2004, 12:11 AM
#5
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Join Date: Jan 2003
Location: Portland Oregon
Posts: 292
What about the RB aluminum plates, does anyone have a figurer on weight if you were to run all three plates?
I wish someone would produce them at a reasonable rate to make it worthwhile to get them, think how cool it would be to have aluminum plates and then have scalliwag spray them with armcore C for the contact surface.
Looks like RB quotes the plates as being 10.5 and 13 # for intermediate and rear plate
http://www.racingbeat.com/FRmazda3.htm
“As an example of the significant weight savings: a stock, intermediate housing on a 1993 13B turbo engine weighs 25.9 pounds, while the Racing Beat aluminum replacement weighs just 10.5 pounds, nearly a 60 percent weight savings. The stock rear housing on this same engine weighs 25.8 pounds, while the Racing Beat aluminum replacement weighs just 13 pounds, again a savings of nearly 50 percent.”
If it weighs 190 shortblock, then it could possibly weigh in right around 150 for aluminum plates shortblock…damn that would be nice.
How many boingers can claim that kind of power to weight ratio??
I wish someone would produce them at a reasonable rate to make it worthwhile to get them, think how cool it would be to have aluminum plates and then have scalliwag spray them with armcore C for the contact surface.
Looks like RB quotes the plates as being 10.5 and 13 # for intermediate and rear plate
http://www.racingbeat.com/FRmazda3.htm
“As an example of the significant weight savings: a stock, intermediate housing on a 1993 13B turbo engine weighs 25.9 pounds, while the Racing Beat aluminum replacement weighs just 10.5 pounds, nearly a 60 percent weight savings. The stock rear housing on this same engine weighs 25.8 pounds, while the Racing Beat aluminum replacement weighs just 13 pounds, again a savings of nearly 50 percent.”
If it weighs 190 shortblock, then it could possibly weigh in right around 150 for aluminum plates shortblock…damn that would be nice.
How many boingers can claim that kind of power to weight ratio??
03-17-2004, 12:01 PM
#7
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Join Date: Jan 2003
Location: London, Ontario
Posts: 2,871
Originally Posted by rotarypower101' date='Mar 17 2004, 01:11 AM
What about the RB aluminum plates, does anyone have a figurer on weight if you were to run all three plates?
I wish someone would produce them at a reasonable rate to make it worthwhile to get them, think how cool it would be to have aluminum plates and then have scalliwag spray them with armcore C for the contact surface.
Looks like RB quotes the plates as being 10.5 and 13 # for intermediate and rear plate
http://www.racingbeat.com/FRmazda3.htm
“As an example of the significant weight savings: a stock, intermediate housing on a 1993 13B turbo engine weighs 25.9 pounds, while the Racing Beat aluminum replacement weighs just 10.5 pounds, nearly a 60 percent weight savings. The stock rear housing on this same engine weighs 25.8 pounds, while the Racing Beat aluminum replacement weighs just 13 pounds, again a savings of nearly 50 percent.”
If it weighs 190 shortblock, then it could possibly weigh in right around 150 for aluminum plates shortblock…damn that would be nice.
How many boingers can claim that kind of power to weight ratio??
I wish someone would produce them at a reasonable rate to make it worthwhile to get them, think how cool it would be to have aluminum plates and then have scalliwag spray them with armcore C for the contact surface.
Looks like RB quotes the plates as being 10.5 and 13 # for intermediate and rear plate
http://www.racingbeat.com/FRmazda3.htm
“As an example of the significant weight savings: a stock, intermediate housing on a 1993 13B turbo engine weighs 25.9 pounds, while the Racing Beat aluminum replacement weighs just 10.5 pounds, nearly a 60 percent weight savings. The stock rear housing on this same engine weighs 25.8 pounds, while the Racing Beat aluminum replacement weighs just 13 pounds, again a savings of nearly 50 percent.”
If it weighs 190 shortblock, then it could possibly weigh in right around 150 for aluminum plates shortblock…damn that would be nice.
How many boingers can claim that kind of power to weight ratio??
Imagine it's because of the bolts being tapped into it, but last time I heard someone check RB didn't have front plates.
03-17-2004, 12:14 PM
#9
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Join Date: Apr 2002
Location: IL
Posts: 2,930
Originally Posted by TYSON' date='Mar 17 2004, 06:01 PM
There is no front plate.
Imagine it's because of the bolts being tapped into it, but last time I heard someone check RB didn't have front plates.
Imagine it's because of the bolts being tapped into it, but last time I heard someone check RB didn't have front plates.
