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Originally Posted by bkreigsr View Post
..and I thought I had some pretty radical weight saving ideas..


We toured the Penskie LMP2 Porsche facility we got to go down to the floor and touch the car, and ask the mechanics questions. No parts of the car were left as souvenirs. Every single broken bit of the car was shipped back to Porsche. The mechanics were busy drilling small holes in the length of the bolts that held things together, and removing a few milligrams of metal and then filling the hole with silicon. For the entire car that could not have come to one pound. Pretty radical to save a little weight.

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