Richard_3L
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Hi,
Was pleasantly surprised how balanced my 1.4 aua petrol felt, which prompted me to look at weight balance front-rear, which turned out pretty much 50:50 (sorry can't remember exact now). Also looked at 1.6fsi, 1.4 diesel 90 and 75 and all much heavier on the nose (can't remember #s as just in general browsing a while back).
Fast forward to now and I've managed to find weights of petrol 1.4 aua, diesel 1.4 BHC and 1.2 ANY and gearboxes.
1.4 petrol: AUA engine 90kg, gearbox 02t mq200 35kg (total 125kg)
1.4 diesel: BHC engine 130kg, gearbox 02j 40kg (total 170kg)
1.2 diesel: ANY engine 100kg, gearbox 02j lightened but then robotics added 39kg (total 139kg)
Having also got a 1.2 ANY (61bhp) which is 855kg with power steering and aircon- 825kg without- it got me thinking the art of the possible. So I also looked at other VW engines and boxes.
VW UP! Has a 12v petrol 1.0 (75bhp) which is 71kg and the gearbox 26kg! (MQ100), total 97kg! So 42kg lighter than ANY. On manual rack sans aircon ANY that makes it 783kg!
Now my 1.4 petrol AUA sans OSS is 895kg, and the ANY suspension 80kg lighter as all aluminium... wouldn't it be a great project (Project FLyweight?) To take non OSS AUA, with manual rack, ANY suspension (shocks changed), VW UP engine and gearbox... sub 780kg and 75bhp at my school maths... stiff & ultra light that would be great to drive!
Was pleasantly surprised how balanced my 1.4 aua petrol felt, which prompted me to look at weight balance front-rear, which turned out pretty much 50:50 (sorry can't remember exact now). Also looked at 1.6fsi, 1.4 diesel 90 and 75 and all much heavier on the nose (can't remember #s as just in general browsing a while back).
Fast forward to now and I've managed to find weights of petrol 1.4 aua, diesel 1.4 BHC and 1.2 ANY and gearboxes.
1.4 petrol: AUA engine 90kg, gearbox 02t mq200 35kg (total 125kg)
1.4 diesel: BHC engine 130kg, gearbox 02j 40kg (total 170kg)
1.2 diesel: ANY engine 100kg, gearbox 02j lightened but then robotics added 39kg (total 139kg)
Having also got a 1.2 ANY (61bhp) which is 855kg with power steering and aircon- 825kg without- it got me thinking the art of the possible. So I also looked at other VW engines and boxes.
VW UP! Has a 12v petrol 1.0 (75bhp) which is 71kg and the gearbox 26kg! (MQ100), total 97kg! So 42kg lighter than ANY. On manual rack sans aircon ANY that makes it 783kg!
Now my 1.4 petrol AUA sans OSS is 895kg, and the ANY suspension 80kg lighter as all aluminium... wouldn't it be a great project (Project FLyweight?) To take non OSS AUA, with manual rack, ANY suspension (shocks changed), VW UP engine and gearbox... sub 780kg and 75bhp at my school maths... stiff & ultra light that would be great to drive!
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