ZR8ED

looking for the weight of the entire roof of the car. Mine is obviously cut off, and I'm curious to see what the thing would have weighed. I searched and found all kinds of weights for individual parts of the car, but not likely many have chopped a roof off and weighed it. BTW I got a great spreadsheet of the weights, and am entering the data I already have of my car.
I plan on weighing the car, and see if I can figure if the car lost/gained weight with the conversion. Not that I really care, it is just interesting now that I have two 86 na's and my convertable is way faster...(ok it is chipped) but very little else that would explain the difference. Its noticeable.

plyhammer

50 pounds tops. (pun intended)

Lightningmcnulty

I would think with the electric motors in it would be quite a lot wouldn't it?

If its the car under your name there you also removed your rear window by the looks of it, thats probably a decent amount of weight?!

seafeye

Motors are in the trunk. Just cables run to the roof.

MAGK944

Even though the roof is off and also the rear hatch the 90-91 cabs were actually heavier than the coupes by about 154lb due to the strengthening than needed to be added to the chassis. Yours is an 86 correct? Is it one of the Studie cars by Bauer or an ASC car that was commissioned by the factory? Either way it is rare.


....Edit: I see from a past post that you were trying to determine the manufacturer. Well it will either be Bauer in Germany or American Sunroof Company (ASC) in the USA. In 85 Porsche asked Bauer to produce a convertable model, they did a few but I have never seen one. Thing is Porsche gave the contract to ASC who produced (converted) a few 86on 944's and went on to design the production S2 and 968 convertible. Mentioned in Peter Morgans book and some vague details here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinz_Prechter

ZR8ED

What little info I do have, I know it was converted in 1987. I'm sure the car has added weight, as I can see clear evidence of the reinforcing, but I don't know if the deletion resulted in a net increase or loss.
Out of curiosity, I weighed the targa portion. 20lbs. The rest appears quite light by comparison.
Thanks!

MAGK944

You can almost bank on a net increase on any convertible, the strengthening required is quite considerable. Rockers, a-b-c pillars, cross-bracing, etc.

I think yours must be an AMC conversion. They are still in business and doing factory conversions. Give them a call, they might keep records. That link I posted has a link to them.

catamax944

Most 924/944 cabrio conversions were done by Bieber

MAGK944

Never heard of them, any reference? I can't see that they did "most" of them as AMC did ALL the factory S2's and 968's.

catamax944

I'm not talking about the sub-contracted factory cabrios. Scott's cabrio is an aftermarket conversion and almost all the aftermarket conversion kits were done by Bieber and installed by various dealers/shops. These conversions started way before the factory was even thinking of making a 944 cabrio ,they were first done on early 924's.
Other conversions were done by Lainwather & Blazek and also one factory prototype by Baur in 1985.
Just google it...

MAGK944

I see, thanks - learn something new everyday on here