I'm finally back home from all my travels and I've been getting back to work on finishing up the Super Trooper. Yesterday I borrowed a set of scales from the shop next door and got to find out what the buggy actually weighs. My goal for this project was to drop a thousand pounds from my old rig, which would put me at 3200lbs. Heres what I got yesterday.


Left Front = 825lbs.
Right Front = 745lbs.
Left Rear = 586lbs.
Right Rear = 634lbs.

TOTALS

Front = 1570 lbs.
Rear = 1220 lbs.
Total = 2790 lbs.

Thats WAY under what I was expecting, or hoping for. I'm really happy with the weight balance too, with a 56/44% split. I still need to add winches and body panels, but I doubt that will add more than a hundred pounds so I should still be under 3000.

Today I started working on finishing out the floor and firewall. Luckily for me one of my neighbors builds custom rain gutters and has all sorts of sheetmetal tools. He was kind enough to let me use them and I managed to build all these panels. There is still a lot of trimming and mounting to do but the interior is basically done. I even had a chance to fold up a nice little switch panel for all the controls.









Tomorrow I'm planning to start on the doors and rear fender panels.

Dallas