i wasn't suggesting you cut the rear floor out (and replace it with a sheet of tin foil
) or cut the doors up until theres nothing left but a flimsy skin and an aluminium door card
but i would if i knew i'd replaced the missing strength with something far stronger
as an example when i was building the pickup i thought about all the bars i was welding into the rear of the car to reinforce what i'd cut out and thought, hang on if i get hit up the arse hard in this the piece of box section i got replacing what would have been the parcel shelf ( but about a foot further forward) is going to pin me to the dashboard when the box section from the rear bootlid shut area gets pushed forward. so i had to design a crumple zone into it to fold the rear end of the car but not push the bar behind the seats into the occupants. there's loads you can cut out if you think about what your doing before you actually do it but sometimes you can end up putting more in than you actually take out. lots of plastic and ali in the pickup and only around 60kg lighter than before i started but it wasn't meant to be a weght saving exercise.
