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[GH85Carrera]

[svandamme]

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.

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!!

[GH85Carrera]

It was not epoxy, it was just silicon glue. We were all stunned they were bothering to do it, but it was done in front of our eyes.

[widebody911]

[GH85Carrera]

[svandamme]

I'd park on that spot and based on the principle, written in the US Constitution, that:


We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness.

And I just exercised my unalienable right to pursue happiness..
and nothing makes me happier then finding a nice empty parking spot.

[porsche tech]

[doug_porsche]

[widebody911]

[widebody911]

[Baz]

[VillaRicaGA911]

On the Porsche Spider, sorry could not get pic to post. A good number of year ago Patrick Long wrote about the experience of driving that car. I’m not all surprised after having read that interview in Panamera about the extreams of weight saving efforts. To paraphrase a factor Porsche driver, that car could make you vomit from motion sickness it could corner so fast.....

[GH85Carrera]

[masraum]

Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

ROFLMOA!

I had a work colleague years ago, that was getting a divorce and started dating a girl that worked in our building. He told us a funny story once. I can't imagine why, but he said that it was a PSA. Apparently, he and his girl were curious about the whole cock-ring thing, but they didn't have one, so they decided to use a rubber band. He went into a long, hilarious story about how and why that's a bad thing. It involved quite a bit of discomfort, and apparently, once things swelled up, was EXTREMELY hard to remove.

I hope this embeds

Now I want one

[GH85Carrera]

[Baz]

[GH85Carrera]

[rcooled]

Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

For the entire car that could not have come to one pound. Pretty radical to save a little weight.

Sure is. Porsche was rumored to have drilled out the ignition keys of its 917 racers for the same reason. Talk about radical...

[Steve Carlton]

Killing two birds with one stone for Baz...

[Fast Freddy 944]