Light weight doors

Karan · Mar 20, 2008

Wasper said:

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.
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ChokingChicken · Mar 21, 2008

ya +2 to that. i'm a big fan of being alive

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