fiberglass door skin (only) source?

[70SWT]

Aside from the obvious choice of buying a more complete fiberglass door from GT Racing, TRE etc, and breaking it down - anyone heard of a source for a fiberglass or carbon fiber door skin only? This would be for grafting onto a steel shell. I heard that at least one place in Europe sells plain fiberglass skins, haven't found it yet.

[Tooth911]

Very interested also Ive heard about it being done in cf.

[dsfnctn]

I have a boating related composite bussiness and sometimes we get side tracked with Porsche related projects. Here is our quest for a 2 lb door for a PCA car. To have a light door skin you will need to to use core and be Bagged

[70SWT]

Is that a one-off deal, or are you making these for sale?

[dsfnctn]

These doors came out under 2 lbs each and are foam cored with additional foam stringer for strength. The sad thing is that when you build parts this light you then realize how much the paint weighs.
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[Tooth911]

Interesting so a door skin to replace outside steal is possible ?

[70SWT]

Yes, I've seen it done on at least 2 cars. Doesn't look to be particularly challenging (relative to most bodywork tasks on these cars), once you find the skins. 3M body adhesive and careful attention appear to be the main ingredients.

I'm still kicking myself for selling a spare pair of race-type fiberglass doors (with the partial inner housing, like GT Racing etc sell) I had a few years ago - the skins off of those would have worked perfectly.

[URY914]

I've made several, maybe 10, 914 doors skins over the years. There is more work in the make the buck of course than the final skins. I've made both RH and LH bucks. But to tell you the truth if you're just going to mount it back on the steel frame, you're not saving that much weight from a stock door.

[70SWT]

I bet the weight savings is not tremendous, although the steel skin I just removed from a door yesterday is pretty heavy.

I am thinking that race-weight fiberglass (all excess resin squeezed out, etc) or CF, when combined with a door frame that has been swiss cheesed just short of losing structural integrity, will eliminate a worthwhile amount of weight. ("Worthwhile" is defined by how weight-obsessed you are, which for me is "pretty d@mn").

My idea here is to keep the general functionality and structural stability of the door while minimizing weight. I hear too many bad things about the long-term stability of all-fiberglass doors in regularly-driven cars.

[toddc]

RS, ygpm

--toddc

[Tooth911]

I like the carbon fiber door shown here but it looks like a suuny day application.I would like to see something that includes a window.

[dsfnctn]

Getty design makes an awsome carbon fiber door that is an exact copy of the Porsche door . window frame mounts right in (some assembly required). All these composite doors are with a cage . When it comes down to power and weight , these doors are justifiable to trying to get over 330 hp out of a 3.4

[Series900]

I can supply a pair of skins for you, bare glass or gelcoat and glass.