Originally posted by Epstein
If you had some sort of hanging scale, just hook it up to your hood, lift the hood until its parallel to the ground, then multiply that number by 2. That assumes the center of mass is half way up the hood. Physics is phun.
You mean
perpendicular? Heh. And are you sure that hanging a hood to a scale would only show 1/2 the weight? Hmm...
-Jeff