Whats the weight saving from fitting aluminium door skins instead of steel?
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Ive done a search, and may be being a retard, but cant find the info?!

cheers

This is FORD country, on a quiet day you can hear Vauxhalls rusting.

They weigh about 1/3 of a steel skin.

cheers, ive just saved 2.25kgs from a part CFRP skin, and was wondering if I need to try a little harder?!

This is FORD country, on a quiet day you can hear Vauxhalls rusting.

Whats the weight of the complete door?

I seriously doubt it!

I don't know, it's still fitted to the car.

To be honest I reckon you were right, the new skin works but is alot of effort, and i'm going to end up making an entire skin.

Especially as with my maths I reckon 800g a pair is easy to achieve.

This is FORD country, on a quiet day you can hear Vauxhalls rusting.

i have been working on another pair, they weighed 17.6 and 19.2 kg both basically a full door less door cards i got them down to 10.5kg ish steel skins still, one has had welding done.. plastic windows should see them sub 10kg each easy

Yes i moved to the darkside

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Complete door weight would be very interesting, mine are 4kgs each with handles, catches, Lexan and chrome trims. Steel frames and alu skins

I seriously doubt it!

I'm about to put some together for mine. I'll get them on the scales once they're together.

In the 13's at last!.. Just

here's what ive come up with, had to do them quickly as i had 2 weeks off work and wanted to test my idea while im off



Weather stopped play today, before i could finish the trimming of the door. Looks like it fits though!

This is FORD country, on a quiet day you can hear Vauxhalls rusting.

a set of mk3 doors complete with card wre 19.3kg each ally skinned cut out and 4mm polycarb doors 7.5kg.

Medusa + injection = too much torque for the dyno ..https://youtu.be/qg5o0_tJxYM

the winder mech is 1.74kg each ( less winder handle)
the glass is 4.50 kg ( inc both holders)

im down to 8.9kg a door ( inc full locks + std hinges) policarb windows not bought yet does anyone have a weight per window for them?

btw dont mean to thread hijack just think its usefull info to all

Edited by Brett on 6th Aug, 2012.

Yes i moved to the darkside

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Glass:
Rear screen around 4kg
Rear quarters 2.8kg

Poly:
rear screen around 1.6kg
rear quarters are around 1kg each

Don't know the fronts

Edited by bennyy on 7th Aug, 2012.

Audi s4 b5 - 470bhp & 486ft lbs

On 30th Apr, 2012 Brett said:
yeah stick the bit in and give it a wobble

That's great info, I suppose I'm going to have to unbolt the door to get a real answer to my question tbh!

Slightly off topic, but weight figures may make a really handy thread for reference?

This is FORD country, on a quiet day you can hear Vauxhalls rusting.

Keeping it all in one thread is a good idea imo, handy for future reference

Audi s4 b5 - 470bhp & 486ft lbs

On 30th Apr, 2012 Brett said:
yeah stick the bit in and give it a wobble

Well on another well known small car related forum they have a topic on weights which show the following standard weights.

Door Mk3 with side impact bar. Complete with hinges (Not including mirror): 18,6 kg
Door Mk 1 & 2 Complete (Not including hinges): 15.0 kg

I also read somewhere that a standard MK3 Door complete without the side impact bar were about 16kg

They also list a Steel Mk3 door skin as 4.079 kg

I believe the Ally door skins are about 1kg but cant be sure. minidan was selling some recentally so could always msg him and ask him to weigh them.

The weights we have down for skins are:
Aluminium skin is 1.3Kg
Steel skin is 3.6Kg (non-genuine)
Steel skin (genuine) is nearly 5Kgs!!!

Edited by ado15 on 9th Aug, 2012.

Steve
DSN Classics Ltd
www.dsnclassics.co.uk

Steve
DSN Classics Ltd
www.dsnclassics.co.uk