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by **escortman** » Mon Oct 16, 2006 2:43 pm

hey guys
i can get my hands on a ae86 tureno shell, but has no doors, front guards, hatch or bonnet. the upside is that the shell has no rust watsoever, is straight, comes with a t50 box and has all the loom
what i am asking is how much are doors guards hatch and bonnet as i will soon be taking my fxgt off the road to strip so will have a engine so am wondering if it will be worth it

cheers

by **Alex B** » Mon Oct 16, 2006 2:48 pm

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by **escortman** » Mon Oct 16, 2006 2:52 pm

o cheers ignore this now

Click here to see "My Black Hole" · by **Stealer Of Souls** » Mon Oct 16, 2006 4:29 pm

If you wanna go mad, there's also a couple of places that can do you fibreglass bits. bumpers, bonnets, doors, guards, hatches the works. Althought for a roadie I would stay away from doors.
FRP will be lighter but is also about the same price as Revhead (or more).

Hardest bit will be headlights. They'll be pricey regardless I would think...

by **escortman** » Mon Oct 16, 2006 5:50 pm

Stealer Of Souls wrote:If you wanna go mad, there's also a couple of places that can do you fibreglass bits. bumpers, bonnets, doors, guards, hatches the works. Althought for a roadie I would stay away from doors.
FRP will be lighter but is also about the same price as Revhead (or more).

Hardest bit will be headlights. They'll be pricey regardless I would think...

yeh i asked a guy off trademe = each door is $440, bonnet $440 and hatch (no ducktail ) $440. Front guard, per side $290.

so its pretty much the same price as normal ones so mite get the bonnet hatch and guards as frp and get metal doors

by **nite b** » Mon Oct 16, 2006 7:27 pm

Could give you everything you need, just stripped my AE86.Check out my tm auctions, most stuff from $1 if you need.

by **Meadzy** » Mon Oct 16, 2006 8:18 pm

im not saying the fibreglass doors are bad, but they are pretty impractical for road car, heard they have a few missing bits such as window rails and hole for the bit which makes the door stop opening too wide

would make alot of difference with saving all the weight though and then they wouldnt rust out

by **escortman** » Mon Oct 16, 2006 8:31 pm

yeh i wudnt get fibreglass doors because they dont come witht he items you said and they also dont have the side impact bars, and have to run rollcage, but as i have to re vin it iv got to keep it stock

by **Drifter4ag** » Mon Oct 16, 2006 8:42 pm

its not like a standard door is that tough

by **escortman** » Mon Oct 16, 2006 8:46 pm

o yeh i realise that i just dont want any hassles when going through regostration

Click here to see "My Black Hole" · by **Stealer Of Souls** » Tue Oct 17, 2006 8:45 am

escortman wrote:o yeh i realise that i just dont want any hassles when going through regostration

As far as I am aware there is no legal problems with frp doors because of the age of the vehicle. You can get the doors complete with mounting points for all the internals. They're even reinforced to take the extra weight of glass and winders and stuff...

My reasoning is due to one horror story where a person was driving down the motorway, and hit a bump... The bump just happened to cause enough twist in the car/door (as minute as it was) to cause the lock section of the door to break and the door was left to flap around on the hinges.
Now it was probably a freak incident. But I definitely wouldn't want that possibility on a road car.

by **Drifter4ag** » Tue Oct 17, 2006 5:48 pm

so was this horror story in the news ? i.e. did it happen to a real person or just an old wives tale ? like the locked diffs kill your children story ?

by **nzae86** » Tue Oct 17, 2006 7:25 pm

I just spent the last week in a rally car with glass doors and they never fell off ! Probably on some roads that were a bit rougher than a bump on the motorway!!

by **suberimakuri** » Wed Oct 18, 2006 12:09 am

I'm sorry for the children in the incident.

In an accident, with a cross (rally style cage) in my doors, I'm worried about the door metal doing something freaky. FRP sounds like a bloody good idea.!!!

Click here to see "My Black Hole" · by **Stealer Of Souls** » Wed Oct 18, 2006 11:34 am

Drifter4ag wrote:so was this horror story in the news ? i.e. did it happen to a real person or just an old wives tale ? like the locked diffs kill your children story ?

Happened to someone a friend of mine knew.
Like I said. Probably a really freakish incident. One in a million styles.

Details of car here · by **AE85coupe** » Wed Oct 18, 2006 2:44 pm

escortman wrote:yeh i wudnt get fibreglass doors because they dont come witht he items you said and they also dont have the side impact bars,

side.. impact.. bars... whats that???

i don't think ae86 has them standard anyway

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