www.minidoor.co.uk Streetfighter doors
Turbo Mini Forums

Just wondered. Seen these advertised in the back of one of the mini mags. They look just the ticket for a track day car (with roll cage). Does anyone have them fitted to there car? If so what is the quality like etc?

Text from the web site

Our 'Streetfighter' lightweight doors are primarily intended for competition use and dramatically reduce weight by eliminating the drop glass, winder mechanisim and much of the inner door frame. The doors are then reskinned in aluminium and converted to sliding polycarbonate glazing a la MkI. Weight of a MkIII door can be as little as 5.5 kg compared to around 19kg for a normal door. Weight saving on MkI and II doors is not as dramatic, but the aluminium skin saves 3kg and removal of the door pockets and fitting polycarbonate glazing produces further weight saving
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http://www.minidoor.co.uk/
Price £150 each plus p+p £45 return for one or two doors

Dunno yet mate but im having some for july next year.

Plus side is they are just trip up the M6 for me

well i bought some doors off him, and he has great customer service, nice person!

theres just him and he will help you with anything you need!

I was gonna get these doors but he said against it as mine will be a road car, and he says theres maybe not enough bracing in them to use on the road! but they are so light its unreal!
so i got mk3 doors converted to hold sliding windows instead and that saved loads of wieght!
he uses his doors then i just swapped them with mine!
but great company to use! took a few days for him to do my order!

martin

As previously said the block is a star.

I hate doing door skins, just gets on mynerves for some reason. I have had doors off him before and they were a top job to be fair. Would and will use him again!!

Every day is a school day ...........

How fast and how expensive ...... the same question...

What happens about the latch/locking machanism? Thats the only thing that stopped me cutting out the inner skin

Would have liked to have had some ally skins for my doors, 3kg is quite alot!

How does the weight of these compare to say a fibreglass foor or a carbon door ??

9.85 @ 145mph
202mph standing mile
speed didn't kill me, but taxation probably will

do you think he would convert mk3 doors into the sliding type to take perspex windows?
or is it easy to do by your self?
i would get them but mine will be used on the road as well as tracks etc.

cheers
josh

My build thread..

http://www.turbominis.co.uk/forums/index.php?p=vt&tid=542985

thats what mine are, for perspex but can take mk1 glass if i remember correctly!

the locking mech is still there, its that window mech that holds most the weight! you could cut the bottom half out of the frame inside but i need it as im not having door bars on my rollcage!

I've got carbon doors on my mini, yes they are light, but they are also really really crap! the worse thing I ever fitted to my car was these doors. They bend out at the top at speeds of over 60mph.

Team Racing

Do you know how much they weigh though Jimster???

Every day is a school day ...........

How fast and how expensive ...... the same question...

nothing when they blow off

Literally a couple of kilos. i'd say 2kgs

End of the day 5.5kgs is very light, although if you have good doors you can do this yourself, mine are modded standard doors and probably the same weight as a streetfighter.

Main bit is loosing the glass and winder as a lot of people have said.

9.85 @ 145mph
202mph standing mile
speed didn't kill me, but taxation probably will

so is how would you mod your own doors to have the sliding perspex and get rid of the winder?
is it simple if you look at a door or what?
im tempeted to get the streetfighter doors and have as its going to have a full rollcage, and not driven all the time!

My build thread..

http://www.turbominis.co.uk/forums/index.php?p=vt&tid=542985

http://www.theminiforum.co.uk/forums/index...ic=30050&st=555

Found these pictures of some 'streetfighters' on theminiforum.

Seems a bit expensive to me....