1.06 tonne (1060kg for the hard of thinking) is the figure on the ticket (I'll scan it in if anyone's THAT interested).
My first reaction was considerable disappointment - there's NOTHING in the car, but then I thought about it - maybe 20-30litres of fuel in the tank would be about 25kg, so maybe that's 1035kg.
As far as I can figure out, the hardest thing about losing weight on a vehicle is that if you replace a standard component with a lighter one you still only gain the delta between the two. Add in dinner-plate-sized front brakes, plus the much heavier cable-change gearbox, another 15mm of iron on the height of the block and various other odds and sods and it becomes obvious that after you've stripped out the interior (much of which is cardboard light) weight loss becomes pretty tough in a vehicle weighing 1000kg.
So, I now need to remove all that bitumen from the floor - even if I only save another 5kg at least the damned thing will SOUND a lot louder inside after that 
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Next, I need to find the person in central Bristol who owns a standard Golf Syncro and get them to put it on the weighbridge too - that would get some useful extra information....
There is 55kgs differance in the weght of the Mk3 8v and the Mk3 16v which you can only assume is the differance in the engine, gearbox and associated parts. So with your engine transplant you have added about 55kgs which is a lot of weight.
Losing your front door cards will save you 3 to 5 kilos. Is your roof lining still in ? another 1.5 kilos.
Bucket seats and frames saved me another 9 kilos, not as much as I hoped the bucket seat frames on their own weighed 16kgs. But you could probably make something lighter yourself or use side frames if you don't need to adjust them.
Taking the angle grinder to mine this weekend to lose the unwanted brackets etc. Still keep looking at the dash and wondering what that weighs.
Paul
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