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Old April 18th 2011, 21:18
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Originally Posted by al_kaholik View Post
Aluminium brake calipers, "swiss cheese" drilling everything that isn't structural (handles, window winders, seat bases) CF/fribreglass door cards, lose all the sound deadening, remove the spare wheel. See the "bolt porn" thread for anal weight saving...
Swiss cheesing everything will hardly get you any weight savings compared to aluminum bolts! And takes a LOT of time! Swiss Cheesing is mostly for looks on a bug, and can effect the structure of a lot of things considerably.

I'll go along with everything else though.

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