Weight of a converted Mini??

[B18C Mini]

Hello all,

As the title says, has anyone weighted there Mini after the conversion?

I am just looking for some information really for power/weight figures..

If people would be kind enough to give the car weight and power?

All conversion welcome, Suzuki, Vax, Honda, Motorcycle etc..

Thanks in advance!!

[duck]

Mine was 780Kg with no attempt at weight saving, all steel shell, full interior, sound proofing etc

[Purtsi]

Mine was 720kg with Suzuki engine and fibreglass bonnet and with full interior + roll cage + tools + spare tire etc. It'll go on a diet sooner or later.

[matt]

Mine is 610kg with no driver :

safety devices 6 point roll cage.
carbon roof
Alloy doors with perspex windows
Boot floor replaced with alloy floor
Mini rear subframe cut up to beam axle
Fiber glass front
Crap chipped of floor
No heater
OMP bucket seats
K series engine!!!

[Andy_S]

Mine's at 670kg(ish) without the driver ........... maybe 180bhp, but never been dyno'd so who the hell knows.

All steel panels, but .......
Removed inner wings
Removed boot floor
Removed rear valence
Polycarbonate side & rear windows
No window winders
Inner skins removed from boot & bonnet
Doorcards, rearcards, parcel shelf, rear seatback & dash in 0.5mm ally sheet
Removed back seat & replaced with 3mm ally chequer sheet .... which is just as heavy as steel.
Ally undertray/diffuser behind heelboard
Ally fuel tank
OMP steel framed bucket seat
OMP 6 point rollcage
Rear axle to replace radius arms & subframe.
Big Vaux up front.

There's so many different ways of building our engine swapped Mini's that there's no benchmark weight.

[B18C Mini]

Cheers for all the replies!

Wow Matt, you car is light! That is the sort of weight I will be aiming for.

Thanks guys!

[Richard]

Mine is 608 kg (ish) with no driver, in racing trim.
Weighed on 6 crap Argos bathrooom scales

6 point roll cage.
6 point harness (suprising how heavy they are)
Mk 2 steel doors
All perspex windows except screen
All steel panels except fibre glass bonnet and boot skin
10" wheels
Removable steel front end but no inner wings
Completely stripped interior and only drivers Sparco seat
No heater
racing battery
K series engine producing 207 bhp

That includes power steering and a complete rear subframe

[B18C Mini]

This is getting interesting!

Richard you have about 340bhp/tonne! You happy with that on 10's? Do you get ANY traction??

So who on here has the highest power/weight on here?

[Hario']

Dude good quality polycarbonate side and rear windows are my recommendation, maybe keep the drivers wingdow if you do lots of winding. Havent yet weighed the glass i removed but its bastard heavy! Poly is cheap too.

[matt]

The best power to weight ratio 16v fwd mini on here would be Dennis K series turbo mini i would say.

[spNOam]

Mine is 610kg with no driver :

safety devices 6 point roll cage.
carbon roof
Alloy doors with perspex windows
Boot floor replaced with alloy floor
Mini rear subframe cut up to beam axle
Fiber glass front
Crap chipped of floor
No heater
OMP bucket seats
K series engine!!!

620kg with the driver

[matt]

620kg with the driver

You saying im fat

[spNOam]

You saying im fat

I think we'd make a good Laurel & Hardy

[Mark D]

I weighed mine before the end of the build with andys scales and we estimated once built it should be somewhere around the 550-570kg area and it's running approx 180 bhp at the moment. Unlike the other cars listed though i think it maybe easier to list the things that have not been lightened.
1) The driver
2) The driver
3) .........

[Richard]

You happy with that on 10's? Do you get ANY traction??

Traction? Whats that?

As the car develops its getting really scary on the road, the 165 Yokos are not up to the job at all. However with a set of Miglia slicks on its a different animal.
I've found however that too soft a compound on the front and too heavy a right foot and the rubber just tears.
For next season I'm looking at traction control or maybe even moving up to 13s