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Old 17th November 2014, 11:25 PM
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I found the old thread if you are interested, some nice pictures of the stripped out car.

http://www.tyresmoke.ne:eek:forum/to...-8s-at-inters/
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That was really stripped out!

Just checked the vehicle registration card and it states 1825 kgs including driver. so 1750 sounds about right. Figure i'll find a weight station and check.

My weight reduction list for now:

Sparewheel 24 kgs
Battery 20 kgs
Rear Seats 30 kgs
Lighter seats 48 kgs
Exhaust 20 kgs
Carpets 10 kgs
OZ RSL 20 kgs
Rear sunshade 3,5 kgs
Rear doorcards 8 kgs
Race cats 6 kgs
SAI Parts 3 kgs
Trailer hitch apx 20 kgs

Total 212,5 kgs

This means one thing. Goran; you need to go measure some more things

-Bonnet
-Bott lid
-(and the rest)

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Old 17th November 2014, 11:27 PM
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Old 18th November 2014, 12:17 PM
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That was really stripped out!

Just checked the vehicle registration card and it states 1825 kgs including driver. so 1750 sounds about right. Figure i'll find a weight station and check.
Service book weight excludes driver, but includes all fluids and full tank. So yours will weigh 1825 in original factory condition.
It will be the correct weigh for your car with specific factory options.
My previous S8 was 1865kg in service book, confirmed on weightbridge and corner weighed at a racing shop.

My current manual S8 was 1789kg in service book.
Makes perfect sense as auto box minus manual box is 145-75 = 70kg difference.

No way auto box S8 is 1750kg.
The often quoted 1725kg for a FL S8 found on the web must be for a completely un-optioned manual S8, no sunroof, etc. Even then I don't believe it. My manual S8 has very few options, no boot cd changer, no tv, no sunroof, no tow bar, no electric rear seats, no bose. It had the weird self levelling suspension but as it turns out that only weighed less than 10kg more than stock S8 suspension. So even a non-optioned factory manual S8 will weigh in at least at 1760kg and probably more.

I measured the front windscreen but no pic, 12kg. I believe if you replaced all glass with polycarbonate that could be another 20kg at least.

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Old 19th November 2014, 07:54 AM
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So according to service plan my cars weight is 1880 kgs?
If so, then the government surely lost quite alot of money when this came to Norway and taxes where paid of 1750 kgs
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Old 19th November 2014, 09:20 AM
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Yup, sorry to dissapoint you. Audi's service book weight is always without driver, with all fluids. I tested mine on a local weighbridge for trucks, and at a race shop on digital corner scales. It is quite correct I'm afraid.
European governments happily under report weight. On the previous forum one of our famous members from the Netherlands, Sven, had his auto S8 registered at a very low 1725kg. But the Audi service book weight was much more.
I don't know why they do this.
If you can find a friend that will corner weigh it for you for free/cheap it would be interesting to confirm. Alternatively, go to your local waste disposal site, they should have a weighbridge for trucks, and will charge you £5 to weigh your car. Accuracy probably wont be great, +/-10kg?
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Old 19th November 2014, 09:23 AM
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Maybe the government weights are without fluids or at least an empty tank.
90 litres of petrol, an engine full of oil and a full washer fluid bottle and cooling system adds up to a fair old bit.
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Old 21st November 2014, 10:41 PM
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You may As well ignore manufactures figures! unladen sometimes means no fuel,oil,gearbox oil, diff oil, brake fluid,battery acid, washer fluid, This is done so the car looks lighter and more advanced in magazines. And you can't drive it like that. So the actual kerb weight is what you need. My FL S8 weighed in at 1859.5kg the last time I put it on very expensive race car corner weight scales.
(With lpg) approx 30kg extra
My spec is about average
18" wheels
The weight distribution is 1111kg front And 748.5kg rear
This isn't helped by the whole engine being In front of the axle. I think a M3s and most bmw have it behind. I'd love to have or even see a S8 track car under 1200kg. go for it
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Old 22nd November 2014, 09:51 AM
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The big issue is that mist of the weight you can strip is in the middle/back so after stripping I expect weight distribution to be even more % to the front. In the front pretty much only thing you can remove to keep it road legal is AC. Well some plastic covers as well but they do not weigh that much anyway.
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Old 22nd November 2014, 11:53 AM
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Very good point. So far most of the weight I removed is in the back. 20kg for battery, 5kg for self-levelling suspension, 3.5kg lighter wheel & removed heated windscreen control unit.
And a lot more will be from the back, rear and middle box around 20kg, one is at the back and other is near the back.
Front seats are kind of in the middle, -20kg to swap to TT recaros.
Anyone wishing to remove spare wheel (not me) -24kg, or -30kg with tools removed too.
-3.5kg electric sun shade.
Only front weight reduction will be -9kg for JHM lightweight discs.
I hope its not going to mess up my weight distribution, I'll have have it corner weighed when its finished.

Dave thanks for posting your weight, almost same as mine, 1865kg.

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Old 22nd November 2014, 12:48 PM
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The boot lid is very light 7.9 kg with no trim or lights I've just weighed the one I got of Andy. So a carbon one would probably only half that! (And would cost £600+) You can move things backwards and fit smaller lighter ones like washer bottle airbox and SAI headlamp washers viscous fan(mine has been off for 6months now) all the impact structure stuff behind the bumper, radiator in the boot floor. If you could get the car light enough you may be able to keep std brembo's and discs (though ally bells would save a little more) and just change pad material, fluid, ducts, and flexis.
Cheers Dave
Ps headlight are 3kg each (bixenon) you could just use the outer polycarbonate lens
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