Alright, question for those in the know......

How hard is it to convert external hinge doors to internal ones?

What is required and how much work is it?

I take it the parts would be readily available from someone like Steve (Brickworks)?

Thanks,

Tricky

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The doors and A pillars are different shape which makes it a bit difficult . You would basically have to use the A pillar etc of a Rover mini and weld the front half of a Rover door to the rear half of an Australian door , or get the entire door opening/surround and A panel of a Rover and weld it into the Aussie one . The rover doors are slightly longer below the window than the Aussie one and also have a square corner at the front lower edge instead of a rounded one .

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B-Pillar is also different - especially around the lock mechanism

Just buy one of those internaly hindged Clubmans that have been converted to a round nose.

for a man of your talents Trickster, your best bet would be something entirely custom

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Just buy a Rover and put all your good bits into the new body, would probably be easier from what I can see.
and you will end up with a better looking car........

Now I'm gunna get it.........

Hmmm,

I say go custom and do it suicide style!

If converting to internal don't worry about a rover door, just make what you have fit where you want it to fit. Sounds easier than it will be I bet!!

Cheers

matt

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kennomini had internal hinges done for his clubby van....from memory there was a $hitload of work to be done, cause he originally wanted rover doors as the donor doors to attach to the car...but their too different etc etc.

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Tricky there is a huge amount of work to be done, easiest way would be to use use the origional doors as they already fit and beef them up. Also have to beef up the A pillar for all the new support.
Suicide doors are alot more work again... But will hopefully be worth it in the end

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http://www.ausmini.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=20746

What about internal hinge sissor doors?

That suicide door does look the goods though

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Tricky,
For "The Cat" the only door hinge possibly up to the awesomeness would be the Koeningsegg one!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGSnkEKjZcE

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Those Koeningsegg doors are hot .

I do have them on my van, a lot of work and like sports said their is 2 ways.
The first way is the way I did it, you end up with oz doors and internal hinges. By oz doors I mean you still have the 1/4 window and the roll up window.
The 2nd way of installing the entire Rover door frame may be harder as your cutting a lot of the car out (1/2 the A pillar, 1/2 the B pillar and the top and bottom of the door frame all in one piece, but then all parts are easily obtainable unlike my doors which are custom made .
On mine the A pillar from the bottom of the window line down to the floor pan is all Rover, from memory the hinge panel is also Rover, also the front 2 inches or so of the door is Rover aswell. You'll see that the bottom of my doors are square like the Rover doors as that was the easiest way to do it.

It may be just as easy to get a Rover shell and fit your AWD to that (I assume that's what this is for) .

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Yes, its for 4-Paw - the AWD Honda powered ute.

What about some gullwings like the 300 SL Mercedes??
1955 Model (voted the most collectable car ever produced):


And the new model:


Suicide doors dont float my boat (sorry Dan, Nick) but I could do Lambo-style doors ( ).....

And yes, those Keonigsegg doors are da bom alright. Its got me thinking (damn you '77!)........

So, in essence, I need some english doors, jambs and pillars. Add to that a lot of cutting and shutting etc - sounds like it could be more trouble than its worth.

What ya all think??

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It'll be worth it in the end... But alot of work yes

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http://www.ausmini.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=20746

Yeah , go the gullwings , raise the bottom of the door frame about 6 inches though so it looks in proportion .

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