glanzagee Posted November 26, 2012 Share Posted November 26, 2012 That made you look !!!As some of you are aware the weight of these things are awful if you've ever took of your doors you know what I'm saying they seem light when using them but there not Can any traders on here look at making light weight ones or a group buy I'm sure others are interested I'm not keen on paying for the cruise ones carbon would be better I've seen them on evo'sRegards gee Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Dan507 Posted November 26, 2012 Share Posted November 26, 2012 I wouldn't recommend this unless you have a roll cage with side impact bars personally mate. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
glanzagee Posted November 26, 2012 Author Share Posted November 26, 2012 you havent seen my build then Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Dan507 Posted November 26, 2012 Share Posted November 26, 2012 clearly not lol. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
glanzagee Posted November 26, 2012 Author Share Posted November 26, 2012 nothing to lol at matehttp://www.ukstarletowners.com/index.php?showtopic=50374 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
shorty Posted November 26, 2012 Share Posted November 26, 2012 yea dan is nothing to lol at! its a serious matter! however gee he has a point that you realy should only run em with a full cage. your cage doest have door bars so you would be removing the only side impact protection you have if you bin your oem doors. check my ep85 thread for a full 9 point cusco cage if you arnt familiar with door bars Quote Link to post Share on other sites
glanzagee Posted November 26, 2012 Author Share Posted November 26, 2012 ive got the ends to make door bars from omp and some roll pipe just not keen on spoiling the paint on the roll bar just yet saying that when it gets a bit old ill be dipping it chorme Quote Link to post Share on other sites
shorty Posted November 26, 2012 Share Posted November 26, 2012 yea chrome is a marmite thing i think. perfect paint n shiney stuff aint my tase. but thats why i have a dirty 4wd with lots of flock and rally insperation and you have an uber shiney glanza lol keeps the interest in the scene for us all to be different.as for the doors i think you will be looking at more a one of than a gb as not enough lads have fullcages. poly windows and gutted to hell oem doors saves a ton of weight though if your that fussed. also all that door furniture is bulky too. I've just got a totaly flat door card made of very light material. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
steve-gers Posted November 26, 2012 Share Posted November 26, 2012 I thought carbon fibre was alot stronger than steel? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
shorty Posted November 26, 2012 Share Posted November 26, 2012 no mate not the carbon fibre body parts are made of its quite brittle, carbon kevlar is stronger but steel wins hands down for body panels its just heavy. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
glanzagee Posted November 26, 2012 Author Share Posted November 26, 2012 I thought carbon fibre was alot stronger than steel?it is but would be nice to have a reinforced bar in the door or as said door bars Quote Link to post Share on other sites
shorty Posted November 26, 2012 Share Posted November 26, 2012 carbon fibre panels will not be stronger than steel. it will snap as opose to bend. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
glanzagee Posted November 26, 2012 Author Share Posted November 26, 2012 this is a mates car over here this is what i had in mind just wanted the trader to point it out that carbon on its own would be no goodi can get all the metrials just wouldnt know where to start to make them best left to the prosthis car is almost all carbon kevlarwings bumpers doors bootmy thoughts were why lay fiberglass on the backing will see Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Dan507 Posted November 26, 2012 Share Posted November 26, 2012 Thats a Pretty Epic build but like shorty said. it needs side impact bars and i really wouldn't trust carbon over steel. I'm planning on hollowing the doors out on my RX8. you can save a shed load of weight just by doing that and before you ask, my RX8 is going to have a MSA spec roll cage. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Idrees Posted November 26, 2012 Share Posted November 26, 2012 It's something I've looked in to.We can have Kevlar doors made but nobody would pay the price. Well, maybe one or two but it would not be a worthy investment.Once we have FRP tailgates on the market (very very soon), our supplier will be starting on EP91 door moulds.Door bars will definitely be needed though. It would be very silly to have FRP doors without them (IMO). Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Dean @RW-Developments Posted November 27, 2012 Share Posted November 27, 2012 As Idrees has just said its alot of money to invest in moulds etc for only a few sales I am in the long run going to be building my own carbon/ carbon kevlar doors but it wouldn't be in your timescale I'm talking sometime next year really these could be made with no real inner skin so would be extremely light weight! 1 thing though I have considered making a carbon Fibre door pannel so it don't have the window frame that will basically allow you to cut and leave around 1.5" around the origonal door and bond this Light weight carbon panel on obviously then you could take as much weight as possible out of the origonal door so it would still be extremely Light strong and be cost effective Quote Link to post Share on other sites
RicoW Posted November 29, 2012 Share Posted November 29, 2012 lol you can hollow out the doors. but it would be quite wobly...makes me remember the movie on youtube of the Bodywork ep82 />https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDvdbhN1Wwg&feature=youtube_gdata_player Quote Link to post Share on other sites
morgey Posted November 29, 2012 Share Posted November 29, 2012 Ahh yes the underpowered overweight stEVO lol the doors and boot would be good but the rest was a pointless exercise Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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