My car's title says it's 3500lbs? 88:birdsmily: 5.0 ,aod, is fully loaded with sunroof. My question is with afs cobra r 17x8 front with 235/45/17's
and 17x9's on rear with 275/40/17's how much do you think this thing weights?
http://www.coolcats.net should have the factory curb specs for the cougars....... which i dont think would differ much between cougar and tbird personally but from what i can see on there id say that is about right as far as weight for stock... wheels... i coudlnt tell ya...
SAE weighed a 1987 5.0 'bird for rollover testing. It came in at ~3440 lbs. It is unknown what options that car had...but 3500 lbs is probably a good estimate for your car.
I've got a set of '88 sport wheels I can weigh. You can find out tire weights at The Tire Rack. A google search should come up with your current wheel weight.
I'd hazard a guess that your new tire/wheel set adds ~60 lbs to your curb weight.
thanks for the response.
I weighed my set of 8 holes.
Wheels weights are with caps, sans balancing weights, but with valve stem.
Wheel lb oz
1 16 - 15
2 16 - 13.5
3 16 - 14.5
4 17 - 0.0
Average = 16.92 ± .01 lbs
The caps weigh 4.5 oz (.281 lbs)
My scale is accurate to .16oz or 0.1% of the reading, whichever is greater.