Making standard doors lighter
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After some advice really. Had a search, but didn't really find much.

I want to keep my car build with a standard shell (no carbon fibre or fibreglass (cos they are gay!")).

I'll be having standard doors, but with central locking and a wood and pickett electric window kit (lighter than standard winders acording to the fentonator). I want to keep the standard door cards and don't want it to be obvious that they are modified.

So. Can I relieve some of the metal from the door frames behind the door cards with out loosing the strength needed to hold the standard windows in? And if so, how much can I loose?

I have spare scrap doors so I'm happy to get my hole cutter out at the weekend and wreck one...

EDIT: Just realised I have fully caught the TM disease!

Edited by apbellamy on 26th Jun, 2009.

Hahaha!

If something is worth doing, it's worth doing half of.

Thanks for your input John

Perspex windows?

lots of holes on the inside?

are ali skinned doors out of the question?

I want to stick with standard glass for now.

I have heritage skins to go on and will be building them myself, so ali is out of the question.

I guess I'll get the hole cutters out and butcher a scrap door. will put picture up for opinions...

with what you already have, and what you want (i.e. glass) there isn't much weight to be lost :(

have a shit before every journey

lol. I'm a 3-4 a day man already.

I'm contemplating doing a similar thing, me and Paul were trying to decide where could be cut without losing strength as you said.

I would be interested in seeing your pics if your kind enough to share :)

I think matty had put some holes in his doors? I could be thinking of someone else though.

I'll put some pics up, wil be Sunday before I get chance to hack one about though.

I have matty's old doors, no extra holes that i can see.

If something is worth doing, it's worth doing half of.

Here's my effort:

Rob thats looking good
is it an alloy doorskin?
and what hole saws are you guys using?

Aluminum skin & above door has not seen a hole saw, the hole thing was done with Q-Max punches which give a nicer finish in my opinion.

Id post up a pic but am too tired to be bothered, take a look at my doors at avon, it allows you to keep the window winder and stuff in

Basically you can hole saw and chop loads out

I'll come and have a look at your's Nic. How much weight did you loose from them??

After you have destroyed your spare doors Ap is there any chance i could blag them.....beer can be waiting...

Looks pretty lightweight, im leaning towards fixed perspex.
But an aussie summer i think id melt.

In boost we trust

James, fooked doors will be up for grabs once I've finished the build. They are being used for test fitting all the ellectrics etc and I'll be using all the fittings etc on my good doors. Won't be free till next year though....

At my current rate of progress, next year will probably be too soon!!

This is how mine turned out





I've spent about half an hour searching, but I can't bloody find what I'm looking for...

I'm fairly sure Rob H drilled a load of holes in his standard door hinges. Was wondering a) where have the pictures gone and b) would this be suitable for a road car???

Andy

did you compare the weight of the electric window kit over the old winders?

Didn't do a direct comparison, but the doors are about 2KG lighter than standard. The holes are only about 200g per door, but the lecky windows did seem a lot lighter than the regulator.

Linking photos is a pig on the phone but vola:


http://s526.photobucket.com/albums/cc347/r...ser_media_share

Thanks Rob, that's the pic I remembered.

Do you/anybody think the car would pass an MOT with hinges of that nature fitted?