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I know its not the a8 forum but this is cool....
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eh been posted l ike a gazillion times. many heated arguments.
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It's not made of silver. It's just had all of the paint taken off; what you're seeing is it's bare aluminum skin, polished to a high sheen and then clear coated to protect it.
It's not made of silver.
Look at the facts:
Silver weighs 55.7 pounds per square foot. Aluminum weighs 14.3 pounds per square foot. Silver weight 3.8 times as much as aluminum - there is no reason in the world to coat an S8 in silver.
You'd have to upgrade everything on the drive train (and chassis) to deal with the added weight of the silver, and thereby no longer making it an S8 since all of the parts would be aftermarket and fabricated elsewhere. Not only that, but unless you mold all of the parts from silver themselves, you'd end up just adding the silver on top of the aluminum, making the body actually weight FIVE TIMES what it would as a stock S8.
If this IS made out of silver (which I highly doubt), it make look like an S8 on the outside, and it might on the interior, but the performance and the rest of the car is not an S8.
It's not made of silver.
Look at the facts:
Silver weighs 55.7 pounds per square foot. Aluminum weighs 14.3 pounds per square foot. Silver weight 3.8 times as much as aluminum - there is no reason in the world to coat an S8 in silver.
You'd have to upgrade everything on the drive train (and chassis) to deal with the added weight of the silver, and thereby no longer making it an S8 since all of the parts would be aftermarket and fabricated elsewhere. Not only that, but unless you mold all of the parts from silver themselves, you'd end up just adding the silver on top of the aluminum, making the body actually weight FIVE TIMES what it would as a stock S8.If this IS made out of silver (which I highly doubt), it make look like an S8 on the outside, and it might on the interior, but the performance and the rest of the car is not an S8.
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RE: Check this out
ORIGINAL: Raddue
It's not made of silver. It's just had all of the paint taken off; what you're seeing is it's bare aluminum skin, polished to a high sheen and then clear coated to protect it.
It's not made of silver.
Look at the facts:
Silver weighs 55.7 pounds per square foot. Aluminum weighs 14.3 pounds per square foot. Silver weight 3.8 times as much as aluminum - there is no reason in the world to coat an S8 in silver. You'd have to upgrade everything on the drive train (and chassis) to deal with the added weight of the silver, and thereby no longer making it an S8 since all of the parts would be aftermarket and fabricated elsewhere. Not only that, but unless you mold all of the parts from silver themselves, you'd end up just adding the silver on top of the aluminum, making the body actually weight FIVE TIMES what it would as a stock S8.
If this IS made out of silver (which I highly doubt), it make look like an S8 on the outside, and it might on the interior, but the performance and the rest of the car is not an S8.
It's not made of silver. It's just had all of the paint taken off; what you're seeing is it's bare aluminum skin, polished to a high sheen and then clear coated to protect it.
It's not made of silver.
Look at the facts:
Silver weighs 55.7 pounds per square foot. Aluminum weighs 14.3 pounds per square foot. Silver weight 3.8 times as much as aluminum - there is no reason in the world to coat an S8 in silver.
You'd have to upgrade everything on the drive train (and chassis) to deal with the added weight of the silver, and thereby no longer making it an S8 since all of the parts would be aftermarket and fabricated elsewhere. Not only that, but unless you mold all of the parts from silver themselves, you'd end up just adding the silver on top of the aluminum, making the body actually weight FIVE TIMES what it would as a stock S8.If this IS made out of silver (which I highly doubt), it make look like an S8 on the outside, and it might on the interior, but the performance and the rest of the car is not an S8.
Anyway, Craig Liberman's BNR34 is now "painted" in this way... I can't remember what exactly was used, but it's almost to the effect of how Ceramic objects are glazed and fired. Pretty interesting either way.
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It's not made of silver. It's just had all of the paint taken off; what you're seeing is it's bare aluminum skin, polished to a high sheen and then clear coated to protect it.
It's not made of silver.
Look at the facts:
Silver weighs 55.7 pounds per square foot. Aluminum weighs 14.3 pounds per square foot. Silver weight 3.8 times as much as aluminum - there is no reason in the world to coat an S8 in silver. You'd have to upgrade everything on the drive train (and chassis) to deal with the added weight of the silver, and thereby no longer making it an S8 since all of the parts would be aftermarket and fabricated elsewhere. Not only that, but unless you mold all of the parts from silver themselves, you'd end up just adding the silver on top of the aluminum, making the body actually weight FIVE TIMES what it would as a stock S8.
If this IS made out of silver (which I highly doubt), it make look like an S8 on the outside, and it might on the interior, but the performance and the rest of the car is not an S8.
It's not made of silver. It's just had all of the paint taken off; what you're seeing is it's bare aluminum skin, polished to a high sheen and then clear coated to protect it.
It's not made of silver.
Look at the facts:
Silver weighs 55.7 pounds per square foot. Aluminum weighs 14.3 pounds per square foot. Silver weight 3.8 times as much as aluminum - there is no reason in the world to coat an S8 in silver.
You'd have to upgrade everything on the drive train (and chassis) to deal with the added weight of the silver, and thereby no longer making it an S8 since all of the parts would be aftermarket and fabricated elsewhere. Not only that, but unless you mold all of the parts from silver themselves, you'd end up just adding the silver on top of the aluminum, making the body actually weight FIVE TIMES what it would as a stock S8.If this IS made out of silver (which I highly doubt), it make look like an S8 on the outside, and it might on the interior, but the performance and the rest of the car is not an S8.