Round 2 of LS1Tech copy/paste. . .
Last night I yoinked the old beat *ss doors and today plucked/gutted/installed the new donor doors. This was already on the agenda, but since lighting the thing on fire crept near the top of the to do list. First off, check out this mish mash of hardware holding the old doors on.
That's a mix of metric and freedom. What a f'in mess. Well I decided to gut doors prior to removal to make them lighter. Here's door #1, took a little figuring out to get here and get it out.
Then I realized that this was not gutted enough, so I gutted the bare minimum to get the windows and sh*t out of the second floor faster in a way where I didn't breathe so much grinding dust.
This came out waaaayy faster than the first. Alright, now that I'm home it's time to remove all that I want while leaving the extra structure that I want in there.
There's the passenger door looking good. The crash bar structure removal was an asspain. Seriously. The asspain cannot be understated.
This pipe is serious.
Seriously heavy. Talk about some schedule 40.
But the damn door won't close.
So even though I scatterbrained gutted the driver's door a smidge more, it turned out to not be enough due to the cage design. Out came the cell phone camera to dial it in.
After buzzing back this entire aft section I had adequate clearance.
So there's the answer to how would I gut a door if I were to gut a door.
I'll probably add a little reinforcement dealie to both sides to stabilize the mirrors.
Yep, that quarter's still fooked.
You can see here why the upper structure had to go.
And here's the passenger side. I kept the black 93 handles to match the black lock cylinders from the donor. Now to get stickers on this thing, it looks like a boring street car now.
