2020 GT500 - Official Curb Weight!!

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Who are you and what have you done with GT Premi?

FTFY
Once Chevy puts the ZR1 engine in the ZL1 1LE, it's going to smash this GT500 everywhere. They already started offering it with the A10 transmission back in January just to make it kind of keep pace. I bet as soon as the GT500 hits production/dealers, Chevy is going to announce the 755HP engine going into the ZL1s. At that point, price and weight, you'd pretty much have to be crazy to pick the GT500 over a ZL1 counterpart, if performance is what you seek.



Nope! Don't start trying to let Ford off the hook! That kind of thinking is why we're being given a 4200 lbs hog for the top dog Mustang. To those trying to hint at how great it performs at this weight, imagine how much BETTER it would be, if it was 500 lbs lighter.


Where Ford squandered opportunities to save weight:*
- Steel rotors instead of carbon composite
- Steel k-member instead of carbon composite
- Stamped steel suspension components instead of lighter metals (Al, Mg, Ti)
- Getting stuck in the more power -> more cooling -> more weight loop


*For the "it would be too expensive" argument, this post was brought to you by the letter C and the number 8.


Dude, I wouldn't brag about titanium nuts. It is the dumbest modification ever. For the ounces you save, you risk differential expansion and your precious nuts and wheels separating from your vehicle.

Yes they were, that's why I had one of each (2013 and 2014).
What cost? Listen, I get that everything has a value, yada yada yada. The days of the Fox body Mustangs that can CHEAPLY be made in to track cars, are over. Period. Nothing is cheap. Adding power isn't cheap, reducing weight isn't cheap, adding lateral grip isn't cheap, reducing stopping speed isn't cheap, etc.

The MY20 GT500 ARE NOT your blue collar track cars, period. They have entered in to the white collar track guy's playbook, ie Porsche, Viper, etc.

For instance, I decided I wanted to lose some weight in my Viper. I spent $350 on titanium open lugnuts, $1300 on a carbon fiber belly pan, $1300 on a carbon fiber driveshaft, $2000 on lightweight wheels (not light enough, about to purchase some Forgeline GTD-1s for $6k), twin disc clutch and light flywheel for $3000 and I ordered Tillet seats to save weight for $5000. So adding that up, excluding the wheels I haven't ordered yet, I'm sitting at almost $13,000 to save just over 150#. I'll be in it for nearly $20000 and save 180#.

A friend of mine has spent $30k lightening his car up. He's just under 3000#, and he just spent an additional $35k on a heads/cam package running on E12, put down 803/730.

Moral of the story, no it won't be cheap/free, but this car isn't about being cheap or free.

Viper vs. ZL1.....it must be the titanium lug nuts.

No excuses here, just the truth. I'm not a stellar driver by any means, but I wiped the floor with a ZL1 1LE this past weekend. I was turning 5-6 seconds faster a lap than he was, and he was on Pirelli slicks, while I'm running R7s (easily a 1.5-2 second advantage his direction).

This car will be faster than the ZL1 in a straightline, and will run damn near as fast as the Redeye. On the track it will run with the ZL1 and kill a Redeye. Wait until you see a few lap times.



Maybe on a sub 1.5 mile track.
 

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Put the GT500 and the (405lb lighter) Zl1 1LE on a road course and the Camaro will eat it for lunch.
 

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LOL I was going to come iin and say while fat, the engine sounds good, forged aluminum slugs and forged steel I beam's. But why interject reason into the shit fest :)
 

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LOL I was going to come iin and say while fat, the engine sounds good, forged aluminum slugs and forged steel I beam's. But why interject reason into the shit fest :)

None here are concerned about the motor. Stout as shit, it’s gonna need to be


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Couldn't resist. LOL.
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But, I still love the 2020 GT-500! She's a sexy heavyweight! ;)
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How did you get your car down to 3,297#?

Cable sent his off to Arrow and his put down 803/730 and weighs in at 2950#.
My car is the lightest weight version of the Viper, a base model with the track package. That 3297 weight is straight from dodge. Its lighter than the GTS, TA, and ACR cars.
 

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@LostM I can give you a list of the rest of the Mod team so you can go back and like all their other posts too!

GDamn pole smoker.


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if you said anything worth liking, instead of having the mental capacity of an 10th grader, id like what you say too. Im sorry, did you say you had a 900hp dyno chart AND a 9 sec slip to go with it? you said you did, but i havent seen it yet

I mean, there is real racing, and then there is bench racing.. you already said you dont like bench racing, so how do you claim to be "experienced" yet it takes you 900hp to put an automatic car in the 10s.. why hasnt it gone 9s yet?

you can either know what your doing, or you can have a 10 sec 900hp auto car.. but not both. Id be embarrassed, but thats just me
 

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Taking things into perspective.

3,370 lbs.....1967 GT-500 weight
4,225 lbs.....2020 GT-500 weight

855 lbs. heavier, but it's the (acceptable) cost of improved/new technology and improved safety. Looking at the other side of this.
1967 GT-500 - 355hp.....0-60 in 6.5 seconds.....1/4 mile in 15.0@95mph
2020 GT-500 - 760hp.....0-60 in 3.5 seconds (est).....1/4 mile in sub 11 sec. (est)

Yeah, the 2020 is pleasantly plumb, but I think she's gonna do just fine. ;)
 

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I mean, the car is fast as **** on a road course. There's nothing more to it. I'm a pretty disinterested observer on this one, but porker/not porker, it's a very low 2:40s car at VIR. Realistically, most buyers are way out of their league attempting that.
 
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