A few people have been asking for a comparison of engine weights

These weights are for bare engines, block, head assembly complete with flywheel but no clutch!

Standard Duratec 85kg (less clutch/alt) with lightweight flywheel

Standard K-Series 89kg (less clutch/alt)

Standard Vauxhall XE 110kg

AFAIK the XE and Zetecs are similar in weight?

[Edited on 9/9/09 by flak monkey]

Is the duratec an all alloy block/head? Quite surprised by that weight.

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Originally posted by CraigJ
Is the duratec an all alloy block/head? Quite surprised by that weight.

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I weighed my 2.0 zetec silvertop with all the standard mondeo fittings, complete with starter, my engine mounts (originals removed), alternator, clutch/flywheel, MTX75 gearbox(which is quite a lump on its own), driveshafts, instruments and engine loom, all rubber hoses that fit to the engine and the water header tank, engine and gearbox oil E.g. as I will use it in my midi. No inlet or exhaust manifold though, came in at 188 kg using a pair of salter scales. The scales agree on my weight (87 kg) to within 1 kg of the reading I get on the 'proper' scales at my local leisure centre.

I remember vaguely that the 2.0 Zetec E is 18KG heavier than a duratec 2.0, but can't remember where I got that info.

Regards
Hugh

an XE is not by any means 110kg. Perhaps as a bare engine with no manifolds or ancillaries!!

I weighed the one I put in my corsa with both manifolds, loom, ecu, pot flywheel (3.2kg heavier than the lighter one) starter, alt, belts and pulleys fitted and it was 155kg.

the XE is 120kg fully prepped as far as I'm aware, re: QED motorsport.

or theres always:

All those weights are BARE engines. No ancils or clutches. Just the block, head and flywheel.

David

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Originally posted by flak monkey
All those weights are BARE engines. No ancils or clutches. Just the block, head and flywheel.

David

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Originally posted by cd.thomson
the XE is 120kg fully prepped as far as I'm aware, re: QED motorsport.

or theres always:

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about 3k new iirc and they only did a limited run of them.

Not a chance you'd catch me using one and risking the tens of thousands in a proper build on an alloy block of unproven strength.

you forgot to do the pinto!

you forgot to do the pinto!


not a pair of scales made that could weigh that

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Originally posted by theconrodkid
you forgot to do the pinto!


not a pair of scales made that could weigh that

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They don't, one knows the underwater volume from the drawings and the draught marks and then using the density of the water in which shes lying one can calculate the mass by Archimedes principle

one's a clever bugger

One's a Naval Architect

thats the thing about One, I hear they do every job going, and have a degree in every subject.

If One doesn't know something, theres always another One who does.

Very very useful

But a pinto won't float

- Jim

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Originally posted by jimgiblett
But a pinto won't float

- Jim

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Originally posted by alistairolsen
They don't, one knows the underwater volume from the drawings and the draught marks and then using the density of the water in which shes lying one can calculate the mass by Archimedes principle

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ah, i was hoping for some kind of dry dock weigh bridge

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Originally posted by Doofus

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Originally posted by alistairolsen
They don't, one knows the underwater volume from the drawings and the draught marks and then using the density of the water in which shes lying one can calculate the mass by Archimedes principle

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So what you are saying is we should throw all the Pintos in the drink and measure how much the tide comes in....

Then we know how light they are

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Originally posted by mangogrooveworkshop
I got a Zetec delivered to my house a few days ago and FOOK ME its heavy....against a bike engine.

What is the differential between the crossflow weight to Zetec weight.

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