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Originally Posted by swifty
Mr T in a previous thread you mention the weight of your spider being 780kg's, was this a typo.
It's 780kg's with a full tank. That puts it between the S1 Elise at 725kg's and the S2 at 860.
Even with my unstressed straight six only pushing out 79bhp that still gives me over 100bhp per tonne, and it feels quick enough on the road.
I do have a spare engine sitting in the garage that might just get upgraded when funds allow...
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Oops, my mistake, looking back it is 780kg's.
It would've been quite easy to shave a couple of hundred kg's or so out of the car at the build stage - no luggage box, aluminium floor and side panels instead of ply and 'glass, alloy wheels, no heater, K series 4 pot motor etc. - so a sub 600kg version wouldn't be too hard to achieve.
A stripped out, single seater spaceframe chassis'd version with a modified VVC motor could easily turn out under 500kg's and over 400bhb/tonne.
Just a thought...