Any structural concerns with removing doors??

[pbkid]

i've heard that once you remove the 'heavy' doors off a vehicle...you never get them back on straight again, and it never seals again..

the only reason jeeps pull it off is because their doors weigh nothing and they are noisy as hell anyhow...

just my 2cents..



i thought about removing my doors for moab a couple of times, but i decided i would hate myself if i couldnt get them back on straight...

[Knivx]

I've been considering this myself. Coming from a wrangler into this and still owning a samurai I'm one to love the doors off. My buddy in his comanche modified his hinges to just slip on and off like a wrangler but talking to a friend who is an auto body tech he says the only feasible way with our style hinges would be to just unbolt it. He didn't seem too worried about getting them to realign though. Do it and post some pics so i can decide whether i want to this summer! It's still too chilly for me here in Idaho to do it yet or i'd just do it myself.

[circmand]

Even a car as small and lite as my sports car when it was under going rehab the guy put a steel bar frame in the door spaces when he took them off. If the doors are left off for a period of time the weight of the car allows it to start bowing. Think of a board with the ends balanced on two walls. If you appply weight to the center the board starts to sag in the middle. Doing this for an extended period will cause a permanaent sag. That being said a whole door is not needed aan arm bar would suffice and be opened or closed

[CoastieCosta567]

i like the idea, but i would never do it, unless you can manage to keep the cladding on the door still on, cuz with out it, i think it looks incomplete, but picture it, the doors off but the bottom half/ cladding still on, flowing with the side curb and designe of the VX would look sick, plus gives you more protection from water or mud/durt from flying inside, and give it a sweet look aswell. But i personally like the doors on.

[MustangO4]

That was my idea behind getting a second set of doors to chop, but I wanted to try it without the doors first just to see if Ilike it.

[samneil2000]

I wouldn't think sagging would be too much of an issue being that the VX has a body on frame construction rather than a unibody. I could be wrong tho...

Even a car as small and lite as my sports car when it was under going rehab the guy put a steel bar frame in the door spaces when he took them off. If the doors are left off for a period of time the weight of the car allows it to start bowing. Think of a board with the ends balanced on two walls. If you appply weight to the center the board starts to sag in the middle. Doing this for an extended period will cause a permanaent sag. That being said a whole door is not needed aan arm bar would suffice and be opened or closed

[KeithVXlvr]

You guys are nuts . Why would you destroy your ride like that? Have you ever seen a really neat classic that is chopped, dropped and turned into crap ??? I have and I can't imagine why anyone would want to do that to their VX

Just my opinion but, I am keeping mine as stock as possible - I have only changed to larger tires (286/60 R18's on my 2001) with no trimming. I dunno but, I always enjoy the classics that are stock and in nice shape... the modifications that you are talking about just make them into a spectacle

I would never do it but it is your ride. Good luck with the modifications.

[CrnCnn]

I like the idea. Tube doors might be ok too. Ascinder and I were looking into it a little, more him than me i guess.

[CoastieCosta567]

i rather see your VX Chopped and you enjoying every minute of it, then seeing it in the Junk yard chopped to many peices to be sold as beef to feed our VX hunry selfs or in the crusher for scrap metal.

[pbkid]

i rather see your VX Chopped and you enjoying every minute of it, then seeing it in the Junk yard chopped to many peices to be sold as beef to feed our VX hunry selfs or in the crusher for scrap metal.

amen!

cars are made to be driven...

for all everyone knows our cars could be totalled tomorrow so you might as well have fun with it while you have it...

plus, cars are the worst investment you can make pretty much...so why try to collect??