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Originally Posted by chrisbalich
800kg dry is going to require some more chopping.
Your methodology is as fascinating as the outcome.
This thread is what keeps me coming back to the Bird every day or two.
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There will be chopping, but perhaps not as much as you think. Most of what gets chopped will be replaced with cloth and resin, such as the roof and quarters.
I have revised my weight goal down to 780kg (but will still claim victory at 800
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This due to a completely one-sided competition with Tuthill and their 911K. They are not at all aware of our rivalry, but they did make themselves a target by being all, "Oh look at us, we made a gorgeous 911 made out of carbon and it revs to 11,000rpm and you can't have one". Plus they publish the weights of their individual parts on their website so they may as well have painted a target on them.
The word on the street (and by street, I mean youtube) is that the 911K is 846kg topped off with 90L/66kg of fuel. You do the math
These 800kg-ish weights sound pretty extreme, but are equivalent to the 1967 911R. With the benefit of modern materials and methods it SHOULD be easy to surpass. Or...underpass?
I am going to claim victory in the first head to head battle in the imaginary war against the 911K, by the way:
Theirs:
Mine. I have 34g to play with to keep under my 1.95kg weight goal so if I want to make it a tiny bit stronger, I can. I don't see that it needs it:
Maybe I'll call the car the 911J, Which stands for Jonny-revs-to-a-Jillion, plus it's alphabetically superior to the 911K.