Psycho_91Camaro

What was the heaviest Generation Camaro ever built?

1ST
2ND
3RD
4TH
?

87'z28gpse

As far as I know the 2nd Gens were. My 78' Trans am I had weighed 3600 pds...

MurcoRS

My '89 LO3/T-56 weighed 3,584 when it was completely stock. It has t-tops, power everything but seats, and had the 15" wheels at the time. I never weighed the (3) 2nd-gen cars I had but they felt about the same.

nick418

i kno 1st gens are the lightest (from what i heard) i think either 2nd gens or 4th gens are the heaviest..

IROCZTWENTYGR8

iTrader: (1)

Lightest to heaviest, believe it or not:

3rd
1st
4th
2nd

The lightest Third Gens were about 40lbs. lighter than the lightest 1st Gens.

Dens71TA

iTrader: (5)

I would say the 2nd-gen around the mid-1970s when the heavy 5MPH bumpers were introduced. I know my brother's '74 T/A tips the scales at 4,000 lbs.

Angelis83LT

i think that was a typo. but just to make sure. 40lbs? perhaps for the blueprints to contruct the car lol.

911rsq

The lightest Third Gens were about 40 pounds lighter than the lightest 1st Gens.

Reads fine to me?????

87'z28gpse

This website I was just on had all the specs
http://www.f-body.org/tech/tech.htm
It says the second gens were 3616
the third gens it says were around 3100-3400 depending on z28 or convert
the fourth gens were around 3200-3500 depending on if you got a convert or z28
Then on a seperate site it said the first gens were 2700-3100 depending on options, motors, etc..
If anybody has another site that says any of this info is wrong please let me know. Hope this post helped.

Angelis83LT

My bad.. Was up a long while before i read it.. the "40lbs." threw me until i got back on today and read it. thought it was a period in my sleep deprived haze lol

Angelis83LT

i think the second gens were prone to more wieght due to options as well. becuse my '80 berlinetta scaled out at just shy of 4000 pounds. but it had a few things in it to that even a z28 did not have. like the motorized moon roof. with that big chunbk of metal and glass up there i would not have been surprised if it added a 150 or more lbs. and then all the stuff for the electric windows and junk (not sure if those were oem or aftermarket though.)

blyth18md

I think it goes lightest to heaviest

1st
3rd
4th
2nd

I base this off of a quote from the white book

"Nearly all deminsions were reduced, including a seven-inch shorter wheelbase, and weight was reduced by nearly 500 lbs as compared to the 1981 model. But, as the camaro has grown in weight over the years, the 1982 model was within 70lbs of the original 1967 Camaro."

Psycho_91Camaro

WOW, My friend said that 3rd generation camaro were the lightest of em

vejatabul

my 1988 sc with an lo3 auto weighed 3201. full int, no weight reduction, all power no t tops.

my 1988 gta weighed 3515. it was optioned with ac and analoge gauges.

IROCZTWENTYGR8

iTrader: (1)

It was Thirds that were lighter by 70lbs. IIRC, I said 40 by mistake earlier.

scottmoyer

According to my buildsheet, the shipping weight of my car was 3478. the front weighed in at 2064 and the rear was 1414. I have never weighed the car, though.

IROCZTWENTYGR8

iTrader: (1)

For my 87 L98 IROC-Z it's 3,461lbs. for the shipping weight on my build sheet. It comes in at 2,064lbs. front and 1,397lbs. rear. Which makes sense as I don't have leather, trunk trim, locking storage cover, or cargo cover as you do. Besides those things, the car is fully loaded with the same engine, trans, axle, T-tops, body, etc. as you. (they even both came from the same state as you know)

It should still be close to that, I've only taken out some unecessary restrictive baffling around the air intake and all it has added is an all new stereo system with an amp and bass tube which are both light. Someday SFC's will add about 25lbs. to always keep it tight. (maybe full exhaust too )

blyth18md

shipping weight on my 82 Z28 was just 3296.

Front - 1945
Rear - 1351

That was before the interior was gutted, the A/C and emissons ripped off...and so on.