Lightweight doors 4th gen

89 UKDM BA4 4WS (resto job!) · Post by **wurlycorner** » Fri Mar 06, 2015 7:40 pm

NafemanNathan wrote:I expect the weight of the door skin is only about 10% of the doors weight anyway, if that.

sounds familiar to what someone said earlier in the thread

mercutio · Post by **mercutio** » Fri Mar 06, 2015 9:00 pm

yeah but if someone saved 12kg by removing the impact bar and the inner skin then surely removing the outer skin while keeping the frame will mean you get a substantial weight loss while keeping some strength.
I know fibreglass can be strong but strong means weight i have a carbon bonnet and a fibreglass one the fibreglass one feels heavier that the steel one

mercutio · Post by **mercutio** » Fri Mar 06, 2015 9:01 pm

plus only having a door skin will make it eminently cheaper!!!!

Post by **Donald** » Fri Mar 06, 2015 9:28 pm

Bloody hell merc, where'd you pull that one from?

Post by **NafemanNathan** » Fri Mar 06, 2015 9:37 pm

wurlycorner wrote:
NafemanNathan wrote:I expect the weight of the door skin is only about 10% of the doors weight anyway, if that.

sounds familiar to what someone said earlier in the thread

Yes, but evidentally it needed to be repeated

89 UKDM BA4 4WS (resto job!) · Post by **wurlycorner** » Fri Mar 06, 2015 9:41 pm

It's still wrong though

Post by **NafemanNathan** » Fri Mar 06, 2015 9:46 pm

8%?...

mercutio · Post by **mercutio** » Fri Mar 06, 2015 10:39 pm

if the door skin is 10% of the entire door weight and by removing the inner skin and crash bar they saved 12kg then you can assume the outer skin weighs more than 1.2kg so a skin weighing around 500g would be a big weight saving

Post by **NafemanNathan** » Fri Mar 06, 2015 11:20 pm

My thinking is you'll still have to replace it with either a fibreglass or carbon fibre skin, but the difference between the original tin skin and either of those other two isn't going to be all that.

mercutio · Post by **mercutio** » Sat Mar 07, 2015 5:25 pm

if its a skin then it doesnt have to be very heavy at all one sheet of carbon fabric and resin enough to set it will only be about 500g