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Old May 3, 2004 | 08:47 PM
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How much weight can I save with a carbon fiber hood and carbon fiber mirrors?
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Old May 3, 2004 | 08:52 PM
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unless you go for dry carbon fiber.. u won't save any
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Old May 3, 2004 | 08:53 PM
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and what are the savings with dry carbon fiber?
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Old May 3, 2004 | 09:05 PM
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For the hood you will probably get like 20% weight saving compared the stock aluminum hood, not very sure how much of weight savings you will get from a cf mirror, probably just a little, but nonetheless they are aerodynamic with a low drag coefficient...
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Old May 3, 2004 | 09:51 PM
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Here's the weight saving for the Amuse S2000

Total weight loss - 226.4

Ti zorst - 45.1
CF hood - 11.5
CF trunk lid - 11.9
Seat - 37.7
Wheels and tyres - 39.3
Steering - 1.0
Piping deletion - 10
Passenger SRS - 7.8
Pomech Battery - 9.2
Spare tyre and mats - 44.8
Others - 8.1

gives you a good indication of where to look for weight savings but as mentioned above, you have to go dry carbon if you're serious.
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Old May 3, 2004 | 09:51 PM
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CF hood will give more then just light weight. CF has natural vibration dampning capability.
hopfully i dont' have to explain here why vibration dampning is good
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Old May 3, 2004 | 09:55 PM
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BTW those are old numbers but still a good indication IMO
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Old May 3, 2004 | 09:57 PM
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Hopefully because you can't? Or hopefully because its common knowledge? I'd like to hear it if its not too much trouble, never heard of anything like that so far so maybe others may learn too.
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Old May 3, 2004 | 10:12 PM
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i'd like to hear about the vibration dampening of the cf also.
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Old May 3, 2004 | 10:19 PM
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Originally posted by s2kvancouver
unless you go for dry carbon fiber.. u won't save any
werd.
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