thinking about the final weight on my 53 with a dressed 460 mill. I figure about 3000#s for the truck and 800 for the engine... so just shy of 4k ??? any of you big block guys been over the scales ??

john

 

I'd be surprised if it's that much. Mine is under 3100 lbs with a flat V8, not exactly a lightweight engine.

 

 

Ride tech has a list of weights on the web site, several f 100 weights listed. 3800 looks close!

 

My 50 F1 scaled out at 3000 pounds with a 289/C4 combo. I'm sure you could add 4-500 pounds with the bigger engine/trans combo, a/c and the tilt nose equipment. Do you have a fiberglass front end? That would shave some lb's there. You've got a lot of aluminum there, too, in place of cast iron as stock weighed. I'd be surprised if you were much over 3500.

 

I'll put my guess in at right around 3400lbs

Bobby

 

Bobby, do you know what your truck weighs with the big Caddy engine?

 

"Do these fenders make me look fat?"

 

If you have to ask . And there is no safe answer .

 

It's not your fenders, it's your valve covers...

 

Surprisingly enough the big Caddy engine isn't big. Weight wise, it only weighs 50lbs more than a small block Chevy. So, several hundred lbs less than a big block Ford.
Without Googling the numbers, I'm thinking the big block Ford is about 750lbs, the Caddy is somewhere around 550lbs.

Bobby