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Titanium7

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Plenty of manufacturers seem to cheat, though.  I can only assume they're quoting dry weights, as when magazines weigh the cars, they often get up to 200kg heavier.  (Some manufacturers must be weighing the body-in-white ...)

When my SV was corner-weighted at Millwood, it was noticeably heavier than Caterham's figure (by nearly 50kg, if I recall) and it's a factory-built car.

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Hello,

The 2005 1.6K S3 SuperSport is announced for weighting 550kg.

After several weighting loss upgrades (flywheel, aluminum gearbox case, battery, brakes,...) and after being corner-weighted, my cat is about 520kg with fuel tank full and standard weather equipment.

 

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Weights have always been quoted dry and without driver.

Here, in Denmark, we have just recently had the EU kerb weight with driver introduced. Until then it was the dry weight. As a guideline you can add 125kgs to the dry weight to get the "ready for takeoff" weight.

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The manufacturers are all such fibbers / weasely that I've never understood why the media don't automatically put them on the scales when reviewing / testing - people are interested.

 

I've never understood how Meaden's Fireblade got down to that fabled 369kgs either. Mine is just shy of 400kgs and there's no way I can find another 25kgs.

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A lot can be done.

Shave the loom and loose at least two kgs.

Nitrons and aero wishbones is another 4-5 kgs.

Which tyres do you use? The original CR500s weighed at least 1,5 kgs less than ZZRs (each) - now the lightest would probably be a set of slicks.

MB wheels *are* light.

Titanium wheel nuts

Lithium battery

 

Do you want me to continue?

 

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97 k VVC . Just over ful tank . Side intrusion bars ,L&R, all tools on board , spare cables , half hood , toneau, in other words normal blating trim

 

Nitrons , Apollo wheels , tillets

 

Car weighed 540kg, trouble is the driver is 90kg , 17% of the car!

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