doors
#21
Posted 07-01-2011 06:40 PM
#22
Posted 07-01-2011 06:52 PM
Finished up the doors by splitting some vacuum line and glueing in place
I did the same thing with some drip line for garden sprinkler systems. Worked well but vacuum line would be much easier to split.
#23
Posted 07-01-2011 11:32 PM
#24
Posted 07-02-2011 09:37 AM
Chris
Happiness is a dry martini and a good woman ... or a bad woman.
- George Burns
#25
Posted 07-02-2011 11:01 AM
-tch
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#26
Posted 07-02-2011 12:06 PM
You could leave the top part at the sill as it provides some structural rigidity to the door.some of the thinner parts are 18ga, but there are the top part of the window sill is definately thicker than that...and there are multiple layers. It took me 2 hours to do both doors with the cutoff wheel, including cleanup, and smoothing the freshly cut edges with a file. If that's what you call too long....okay.
-tch
Chris
Happiness is a dry martini and a good woman ... or a bad woman.
- George Burns
#27
Posted 07-02-2011 12:21 PM
-tch
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#28
Posted 07-02-2011 12:47 PM
#29
Posted 07-02-2011 01:17 PM
I didn't presume that it provided impact protection, just some rigidity to the door. Taking out that whole sill would probably only save roughly 3-lbs total (both doors), the mass of the weight savings is in the window tracks, motors, etc. My car is under weight anyway, so going back to trim that just isn't worth it for me.The inner panels don't do much for protection in a race application. That's what the door bars are for. I've still got the skins out in the scrap barrel. If I get a chance today I'll weigh one but I already scrapped to the door innards and glass so it won't be indicative of the true weight savings. Some of the veterans of the class had some posts on the other site that had what the weight savings are.
Chris
Happiness is a dry martini and a good woman ... or a bad woman.
- George Burns
#30
Posted 07-02-2011 01:21 PM
#31
Posted 07-02-2011 01:24 PM
I didn't presume that it provided impact protection, just some rigidity to the door. Taking out that whole sill would probably only save roughly 3-lbs total (both doors), the mass of the weight savings is in the window tracks, motors, etc. My car is under weight anyway, so going back to trim that just isn't worth it for me.
:-)
Difference between a '99 and a 1.6L. I'm looking for every pound I can find (yes, I'm looking at the monkey behind the wheel, too). There aren't many 10+ pound items in the car to remove, so all those 1-3 pounders eventually have to add up.
I'd really like to find another 20 lbs...but, I'm running out of places to look.
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#32
Posted 07-10-2011 09:57 PM
Check out the pics on my blog here:
http://blog.miatarac...eight-loss.html
Sorry but I'm too lazy to re-type the info on the blog post.
Hope that helps someone.
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