Light weight doors

um....dunno about light weight doors. but you can change ur windows to a differnt material that is lighter.

What are your plans with your car that u need light weight doors??
Your a big guy....shouldn't be that much trouble to close these doors

 

the only thing i can think about is cutting out the reinforcement in the door that are there for when you get in a accident. but you can always see if a company could make you CF doors but they are pricey and not the best idea to have them they wont protect you at all

 

honda = cheap ass, flimzy crap
mitsubishi = nice ass, steerty crap

 

IMO, Its not the doors that are heavy, its just the cushioning.

if they were heavy you'd feel it when you opened and closed them

comparing my doors to my brothers '03 Eclipse GT my doors are feathers.

take off the cushioning between the door when they close and i'm sure they'll close alot easier... probably make alot of noise when they close though..

if you slam our doors they still close gently because of that cushioning.

 

Someone is probably making (or may have made) Carbon Fiber doors.

 

well i figure that the car door isnt much different than a home door. if you hang it right you cant tell as easily that its heavy.

 

Hmm theirs some truth to that, but even if it swings nice you can tell how much connetic energy is needed for the door to move..

 

would the correct term be touchet (sp)

 

i dunno but i want to live when i get t-boned...there is a reason the doors are heavy.... my mom's lexus rx 400h door is soo heavy.. if not heavier than my car door.. but it makes me feel safe.. is you want to save weight.... get gut the inside of the car... like the rear seats, spare tire and etc. LOL oh and look at ur self in the mirror LOL sorry if i offend anyone.. im a big guy so i can say it lol

 

Seibon CF FTW.

 

Use lexan windows to cut a lot of weight. Or I'm sure that someone will come out with CF doors like they did for the old lancer.

 

i think its a safety issue about the doors being heavy cuz of the reinforcement in case you get into an accident...I think thats how it is with the 3rd gen eclipse...

 

You don't lose any safety just excess weight from the heavy metal doors. Any crash bars can be reused.

 

Theres no way I would trust any after-market CF doors over the stock doors when it comes to safety.

Mitsubishi must manufacture their doors within federal guidelines, and the stock doors have been tested by mutiple, third-party, saftey testing facillities , simulating side impacts, and have been given a 5 star rating by them all. Its not only the strength or studiness of the door, but also how the door reacts in a side impact with the rest of the car frame. Mitsubishis engineers have that all figured out.

Metal crumples during a crash, where CF will crack and shatter. Theres no way that a CF door will react the same way during a side impact as a metal door will. Will the manufactuors of the after-market CF doors spend as much time, money and research making sure thier product can stand-up the same way in a crash? I highly doubt it.

The same goes for putting in lexan windows. lexan wont shatter into many small bits like safety glass will, it will shatter into big sharp shards of plastic. Not something I would want aimed at my head during a crash.

Doing weight reduction mods like this on a daily driver is totally unsafe and I would advise against it. Look into lighter trunk-lids, hoods, rims and things like that, that are not involed with the "safety cage" surrounding the driver.

 

i agree with you wasper,i wouldnt want to risk my son's safety for looks.

 

...or my daughter's...good point Wasper

 

Unless the Lexan was thin or took a significant impact could that happen.

Whether you think so or not structural carbon fiber parts may not fall under federal guidelines but that doesn't mean they are weak.

 

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As far as the Lexan goes, I'm a machinist and at one point we had to make some parts out of lexan at my job, different sizes and thicknesses. So I know first hand what stresses can be placed on that material.

True, lexan can take a hit better then glass, but like I said, the safety glass shatters into small bits, not shards. Lexan will break into shards under enough force. In a side impact collision, hard enough to deploy airbags, there is more then enough to break a lexan window.

I Never said Structual CF was weak, I just wrote that, I personally, wouldnt trust a Aftermarket company that made a CF door. This is how I see it.. Did this Company

A) Make a CF door with safety as their first and foremost goal, then tested it exstensivly to see how it reacts in a crash, then modified their design accoardingly in order to provide a safe, reliable product...

~~or~~

B) Just molded a stock door, layed some CF over the mold,resin'ed it up, buffed and shined it , then sell it to the public as a nice looking custom piece.

I would have to lean more towards Answer B, hence why I wouldnt trust it in my car. These are just my opinions, anyone can do what they want to thier cars. Im just putting this out there, so people will consider the safety side of things.... I'm just so sick of seeing these young kids die in car crashes every other day.

 

^tru dat. now if A were the case i would seriously contemplate buying some.