cool Audi A8
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No its not made out of silver... I found that out when I posted the same thing about 2 months ago when everyone told me it was a repost X10 and belonged in off topic or A8 area.. Im sure the nerd who explained how its not made out of silver will show up with the explanation. [&:]
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Good one!
But I was talking about some kid coming in here with the cost of silver per lb. and all the mods that would be necessary to support the added weight, and how it would be almost impossible to keep clean etc etc... He seriously had typed 8 paragraphs on the subject, and i just think he could have better spent that time picking his nose.
But I was talking about some kid coming in here with the cost of silver per lb. and all the mods that would be necessary to support the added weight, and how it would be almost impossible to keep clean etc etc... He seriously had typed 8 paragraphs on the subject, and i just think he could have better spent that time picking his nose.
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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.
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RE: cool Audi A8
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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.
