A weight study was conducted of the Ford Fairmont 4-door sedan with 4-cylinder engine and 4-speed manual transmission. The vehicle teardown was limited to the detail necessary to be useful to project near term weight reduction for automotive fuel economy studies. A complete parts list, which includes component description, quantity per car, total weight per car, material description, method of fabrication, and gauge thickness and photographs of the major components, are presented.
Ford Fairmont Weight Reduction Baseline Data
1978
106 pages
Report
Keine Angabe
Englisch
Road Transportation , Policies, Regulations & Studies , Automobiles , Weight control , Components , Automobile bodies , Chassis , Automobile engines , Brakes(Motion arresters) , Suspension systems(Vehicles) , Fabrication , Manual transmissions , Fuel economy , Ford Fairmont automobiles , Motor vehicles(1978 models) , Energy conservation
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