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Originally Posted by GH85Carrera
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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Bit odd.. cause cured Epoxy isn't all that light weight on it's own..it's pretty dense, it's not like it's made up of air.. it's a glue not some kind of air filled material..
65.61803 pound per cubic foot
Regular steel is Steel 489 pounds per cubic foot
1/7.45
So to gain 1 pound NETT weight
You have to Take off the weight of 1 pound of Steel + the weight of the equivalent mass of epoxy used to fill the hole.
1 pound of steel is 1496 cubic inches
+1/7th of that give or take.
So about a full square foot of steel to gain 1 pound!!
