My homemade attempt at weighing my Cup...

[MarkCup]

...had to give it a go. Very impressive result I thought.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqLFERq8mKQ

This is just for you Tom.

 

[Nigel]

Quality choice of music!!

How accurate do you think it turned out to be?

 

[FlameR]

lol 652kgs. wishful thinking

 

[Gray]

haha Love the theme tune!

 

[Nigel]

Thats kind of what I was thinking Ste.

 

[GarethM]

quality vid

 

[ukaskew]

pmsl, best Youtube vid I've seen in a long time

 

[Renault_Boy01]

lol..nice video

 

[Tom]

ROTFPMSL!!!!!! You have been to the tom benton school of editing!

Awesome

By the way congratulations! 275bhp/tonne is great.

 

[Phoenix]

lol....brilliant.....but lighter than a mk1? hmmm

 

[John D]

Ha Ha! You joker! :clown:

Did you have the back seats folded down?

 

[Peperami]

Ha ha, nice vid mate!

 

[player2301]

lol you got weigh to much time on your hands
:lolup:
see what i did there

 

[Day]

Clearly you should have more lb in the tyres...

 

[Ady182]

pmsl, Quality vid

 

[snick01]

hahaha love it

 

[paul_h172]

haha nice one

 

[Marky_]

Pmsl! Excellent video!

Made it all the more funny that you look a bit like Karl Pilkington from that distance!

 

[MarkCup]

ROTFPMSL!!!!!! You have been to the tom benton school of editing!

Awesome

By the way congratulations! 275bhp/tonne is great.

It is great isn't it.

I'm thinking of offering it as a cost effective upgrade service to fellow Cliosporters.



Glad you all like the video. Wasn't going to pull one together when I saw the final figure, but then I got that music in my head so I had to.

Obviously something not quite right in my technique or equipment.

 

[MarkCup]

...you look a bit like Karl Pilkington from that distance!

Thanks so much.

 

[Josh220]

FLOL

 

[b3nje]

lol - that entertained me for 2mins

 

[Budgie]

Quality video. Pop it along to the local weighbridge. They'l do it for a tenner. haha

 

[Graham Gooch]

Erm....

LOL.

 

[Ian_182]

You need four of those trucks to weigh it properly so that the car is balance at each corner.
Then total the four corners.

Evo did it a couple of months back

 

[Darren S]

You need four of those trucks to weigh it properly so that the car is balance at each corner.
Then total the four corners.

Evo did it a couple of months back

Maybe we should each have a £5 bet (nearest takes all) on what the actual figure really is!

D.

 

[Paul J]

LMFAO quality!

 

[rustybolt]

awesome vid mark. But you cant seriously have thought that you could weigh it a corner at a time did you?

It needs taking off the ground completely, lifting it a corner at a time wont work cos there is still contact with the ground which means weight will be be distributed over the points not off the floor.

Get to a weigh bridge, local tip, scrap yard. Loads of facilities to weigh cars accurately.

 

[Saner]

Love the vid!

my 182 came out at around 1150 at Silverstone IIRC

 

[philthy]

hmmm i dont think its that weight some how. lol

see if you can get to your local skip and use thier weigh bridge

 

[Mikey]

surely not lol

 

[Rich]

Get to Combe on a raceday ...

 

[MarkCup]

awesome vid mark. But you cant seriously have thought that you could weigh it a corner at a time did you?

It needs taking off the ground completely, lifting it a corner at a time wont work cos there is still contact with the ground which means weight will be be distributed over the points not off the floor.

Get to a weigh bridge, local tip, scrap yard. Loads of facilities to weigh cars accurately.

If you look you'll see I did actually have the car level all the time I was weighing.

I started off using pallets under each wheel, but they were too big to get under each wheel so I substituted stacking card to the same height as the weighing pallet truck.

Take stack of card out, put scales under, weigh, replace scales with stack of card. Repeat for all 4 wheels.

It should have worked!

 

[Tom]

How much weight can a pallet take?

Cant you mod it to fit the jacking points and lift the whole thing as one?

 

[MarkCup]

I'm looking at getting one pallet that's big enough for me to drive my Cup onto. That'll do Tom, that'll do.

 

[FlameR]

Wouldn't your wheels have to be set right in the far corners of the car for this to work?

 

[rustybolt]

still wont work unless the whole weight is off the ground and only distributed over the thing your trying to use to weigh it with.

Seems a waste of effort when you can drive to a place that will weigh it for you?

Loved the video tho, lol.

 

[JD]

lol mate, seriously lol

jamie

 

[MarkCup]

still wont work unless the whole weight is off the ground and only distributed over the thing your trying to use to weigh it with.

Seems a waste of effort when you can drive to a place that will weigh it for you?

Loved the video tho, lol.

If that's the case, why do these work?

This is what I was replicating, but I only had the one scale, so I had to move that around one wheel at a time.

I've tried the weighbridge thing, but my Cup doesn't weigh 1,240 kgs.

 

[philthy]

they work because they are under all 4 wheels at the same time, 1240 is closer to the 600 something you got!

Id say its about 1050kgs

a fully race spec car would be about 950 I reckon