Kathy and I drove by The Paint Saint this morning and Whitecloud was sitting out front with her smile back (Kathy's words). It's easy to get anthropomorphic with these cars, isn't it?
So happy to have my second girl back.
I dare you to not see the smile on the girl below...
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Looks good! How much does a front hood weigh?
I expected to see big leather hood straps or the hinges mounted on the front of the hood.
I have a spare hood in the garage if the weight is somehow important. I thought only Miata owners were gram conscious?
WOLFGANG posted:I expected to see big leather hood straps or the hinges mounted on the front of the hood.
I have a spare hood in the garage if the weight is somehow important. I thought only Miata owners were gram conscious?
ALB must stand for Always Lightening Bits
She does look pretty happy 
Turned out great, congrats!
Great news ... Looking forward to picts on what your planning to keep the nose tied down. 
I have lost track -- did you get a new hood, or repair the original?
new hood
I think I missed the joke. Has to be a joke in here somewhere. Who gives a shyt how much it weighs??
I've only been asking Will to weigh the f*%$in' thing since it took flight, Kelly. You take a scale, put the hood on and balance it for a few seconds; I didn't think it was a particularly difficult request, seeing as it would be off the car anyway. I guess it's not worth the effort...
I'll get my spare one down and weigh it --- it will be in old fashion American pounds though. What's your guess?
I guess one could add weight to the hood by drilling a hole on the underside and injecting more weight near the nose area.
Need weight up front? You can easily figure what weight is needed by having a half tank of gas then gather 10 lbs. of stones ( use your bath scale) put then in a strong bag or container setting them close to the battery, now go for a ride adding or deleting stones until you like what you have . Weigh the bag of stones to arrive at a weight..... use a piece of flat steel secured under the battery or bolted vertically to the axle beam.
ALB posted:I guess it's not worth the effort...
Correct.
It's probably not.
Alan - That is about as involved as weighing the damn hood.
ALB posted:Looks good! How much does a front hood weigh?
I think the original question was not really related to needing more or less weight up front. Or implying that the hood gained a few grams, lbs, oz. I think Al was just curious what a hood would weigh.
Man... you guys are a tough crowd!
Ted's figured it out; since the hood was coming off the car I was interested in what one of the damn things weighed. I know someone who does carbon fiber and I was interested in what would be saved. Don't know if it would ever get done, but I was just curious. Didn't know it would be such a big deal...
Greg- I'm guessing 22 lbs?
Oh!! Guessing games... I like those. Having been married for nearly 17 years, I'm pretty good. (what's wrong?... nothing...)
I'm going to guess.. 27lbs
TRP posted:Oh!! Guessing games... I like those. Having been married for nearly 17 years, I'm pretty good. (what's wrong?... nothing...)
I'm going to guess.. 27lbs
lol, now that is funny 35years in .... "what's wrong?... nothing." priceless
32 years. There's never been anything wrong. Ever.
Al, I took my postage scale down to The Paint Saint (body shop) to weigh the hood when they removed it from the car.
The scale wasn't able to register it as it was over the scale's limit.
I've been meaning to take our larger shipping scale to the shop to weigh the (old) hood but just haven't, no other excuse.
I'm heading there Monday to pick up the old hood handle and I'll weigh the old hood then, I promise.
and Kathy and I are working on 44 years and I've never, ever done anything wrong...
Thanks Will. What's the scale's limit?
And what does the scale weigh?
Enquiring minds want to know. 
Maybe you can weigh the hood handle and we can use algorithmic extrapolation to guesstimate the weight of the hood. (Hey....It works for hard disk error correction, right? Give me 128 bits and I can rebuild anything!)
Sorry. It's an off night and there's nothing else on...... 
It won't the hood correctly because part of the hood is missing.
Al, the postage scale hit's the wall at 10 lbs
Our package scale is good to several hundred
My guess is 26 pounds, the box and packing and hood weighed 32
But I will check Monday morning
Is that hood weight with, or without the hinges and hood crest?
BTW, Will, what do YOU weigh? 
(I crack myself up)
I think you're pretty close, Will. And thanks in advance. Al
And you are right, Jim, the first 15 or 20 should come off of me...
Items weigh less at the equator.
Especially in Venezuela.
Everything is pretty weightless there, right now.
Art, CMC, 1641cc posted:Items weigh less at the equator.
How much? I might move instead of going on a diet if the difference is significant.
