Thread: gvm upgrade

Originally Posted by Vern

So at a guess, what would all this weigh? (Exclude the winch) front bar, rear bar with tyre and jerry holder, steel roof rack, 2 optima batteries?

Bar - 40-50 kg
rear bar+++ - 50-100 kg
Roof rack ~50 kg
Batteries ~15-30kg each (what size?)

Pretty sure rack was 68. Optima d34's

Point of reference.

My 85 Vogue with 4BD1T, MSA gearbox, dual batteries and standard wheels with LT tyres is about 2300kg.
Add the earlier mentioned 164kg for the LSE and that would put you at ~2460kg with nothing extra on board.

It's looking pretty tight. To shed 250kg and reach ~2270kg would make it about the same as mine with an empty fuel tank.

But I think the one piece welded bodies in later rangies may be lighter than the screwed together version in my 85. I hope so.
My 93 vogue completely stock (V8, auto, single battery etc etc) is 2080kg.

2.24t woo hoo😆

Originally Posted by Vern

2.24t woo hoo😆

Well done. Did you take the roof and doors off?

Nah just what I said in above post

You could always clip the turbo to lose some weight. I hear good things.

only good on ricers apparently