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bill.b
 Post subject: carbon fiber doors
PostPosted: Tue Mar 27, 2012 8:36 pm 
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Disregarding legalities, has anyone bought carbon fibre doors and fitted them with glass and rubbers on a road car? Like the ones from carbon weezel?

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not that this answers your question directly, but the carbon doors from ABS Motorsport require acrlyic windows

http://www.absmotorsport.net/mini/carbo ... -pair.html
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ABS windows... 850 slidey style.... rad....

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It wouldnt be hard to do, theyre in my list of spare second jobs.

Just take the skin off the door, clean it up and glue a flat piece of carbon on it. Drill holes in the frame as you wish and your done. Not as light as a full carbon door but youd be 90% there for about 30% effort.

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Bill did you really think someone else would have done this? hahaha

Also I believe the ones from carbon weazel are more than just a skin, they include everything including the map bin...
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I would do what Kirby said probably

Take your skin off and get a fibreglass or carbon skin and glue it onto the metal frame.

If you want to lose weight aswell, lop off the door bins!

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i don't have bins on my rover doors, and I'm not doing it just for the look this is all for weight. Go before show. Josh they don't look to bad, ill need the MK3 ones i believe, i sent off an email.

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Just a quick question.... why go to the trouble of getting nice light (and expensive) Cf doors, then put heavy glass in them. Seems a waste.
Definately go lexan windows 8)

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Only cause plastic goes chat after a while, also it restricts you to those small sliding holes as windows........

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bill.b wrote:
Only cause plastic goes chat after a while, also it restricts you to those small sliding holes as windows........

You can still have big windows so long as your not a lazy as$ and put some effort into making sliding 850 style windows or make it 1 piece slide up and down with an internal bolt lock or something.

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