Weighed a Trickflow Twisted Wedge Head today

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Just for some weight comparison info, I weighed a TFS Twisted Wedge Head today, it was about 28 pounds, no rockers but with guideplates and springs. What does a factory E7 weigh? I had the ones off of my first 89 LX and they were HEAVY but I never weighed them. I know people say 40-50 pounds off the nose for a pair of aluminum heads but lets test the theroy.

I should have a more exact weight as soon as I get the shipping scale that I want.

 

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i think they are about 52 lbs a piece

 

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I believe is, those E7's are effin heavy

 

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52 sounds about right for an E7, i think when i weighed one, it said 54 on a crappy digital scale. I know they are a bitch to pick up off the ground.

 

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I had both my TFS heads in a small box and were no problem to carry. When i put them on i put my E7s in that same box and it was a bitch to carry.

 

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stock iron heads are heavy but u get used to them after messing with them.

i remeber the first time i picked up and alum head. i thought somethign was wrong lol. it was so light. the number dont seem like much. but the actual difference when hold them is astonishing. you could literally throw and alum head somewhere, could u throw and iron head. doubt it.

 

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Yeah something that isn't often brought up in the carb vs efi debate is the weight of all the supporting EFI hardware including the intake. You can expect an easy 50lbs or more off the nose of the car on a carbed car.

 

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85_SS_302_Coupe said:

Yeah something that isn't often brought up in the carb vs efi debate is the weight of all the supporting EFI hardware including the intake. You can expect an easy 50lbs or more off the nose of the car on a carbed car.

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I dunno, it's possible, EFI intakes are HEAVY but a carburetor itself isnt exactly light and the carburetor intake offsets some of the EFI intake weight. The harness and stuff adds to it but 50 sounds like alot when the intake doesnt even weigh 50 usually. Speed density is lighter than maf! lol

 

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Speeds8erM-1 said:

I dunno, it's possible, EFI intakes are HEAVY but a carburetor itself isnt exactly light and the carburetor intake offsets some of the EFI intake weight. The harness and stuff adds to it but 50 sounds like alot when the intake doesnt even weigh 50 usually. Speed density is lighter than maf! lol

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i can let you know what an intake and carb weigh together this winter when i pull my engine apart, but i guarantee you it weighs less than an upper and lower EFI intake put together...then you add fuel rails and injectors and all that other crap....it's no contest. I can strip the bare essentials from my engine bay down to one single wire running to my distributor and two vacuum lines (one for the disy and one for brakes). Compare that to all the stuff on EFI and there's your 50lbs, if not more.

 

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I have an entire efi setup dissassembled in my garage, i'll weigh it. But the intake will be a gt40 because that's the only uninstalled one i have.

 

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i was always wondering 85 ss i still hyave all my leftover wires from the EFI that was in my car, but im to scared to get rid of them. my headlights run through the harness to, any way to get rid of some without screwing up my car lol

 

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Scorcher2005 said:

I had both my TFS heads in a small box and were no problem to carry. When i put them on i put my E7s in that same box and it was a bitch to carry.

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lol!! when i did this my iron fell out of the bottom of the box

 

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The lower intakes arent heavy at all, the upper intakes get alittle heavier.

My gt40p's were HEAVY! I wouldnt doubt them being in the 50lb area, when I had my stock e7's off the car, my car sat soo up off the ground.

 

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I think my AFR 205's were over 30 lbs...

 

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Either our scales are different or when I had mine ported I lost 2 pounds! Mine weighed 26 according to my scale. My E7s weighed 48 if I remember correctly.

 

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Shipping with my fully assembled AFR 165's in the "box" was I think 63lbs????

 

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87Mustang351 said:

i was always wondering 85 ss i still hyave all my leftover wires from the EFI that was in my car, but im to scared to get rid of them. my headlights run through the harness to, any way to get rid of some without screwing up my car lol

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It can be done but honestly man i'm not the guy to ask about EFI wiring harnesses...lol. You basically have to dig through it and in essense build your own wiring harness in the end, because you're going to end up clipping and splicing some wires probably and then bundling them all back together. It probably would be easier to just swap the entire wiring harness for an '85 or older, but even the '85 has a ton of crap that isn't needed for the bare essentials.