More of an opinion based thing really.

My car as of now is completly primered. So I decided to take advantage of this and do all the body work I want to. I was contemplating shaving the handles. I know of a junkyard with a S14 sitting there and I was planning on going to to go cut (2) 1ft by 8in or so templates out to make a filler plate for each of the handles. (reason being the body line goes STRAIGHT THROUGH the door handle.) I think it would give the car a flush clean look, but some people I know think it would be "ricy"........


So I decided to ask you guys what you think. although it most likely won't sway me.... :P

 

are you gonna use like a electronic mechanism to open the doors for you? my friend did that to his honda..his battery died..and he couldn't get into his car lol

 

cant you put like a failsafe switch on the outside of the car, hidden somewhere?

 

As long as you don't add a wing that looks like you made it in your mom's kitchen out of Aluminum foil, I would think that shaved door handles are a nice subtle mod to your car.

 

yeah, I planned on doing actuators. I'm doing the body work, but I'm letting T&D Customs do the eletrical and instalation. I of course, will be there to watch,help, and learn. (T&D Customs in the only distributor of Hijacker Hydralics on the East side of the Missippi. They are world renound. Just look in any hydralic realted mag) I talked to trad, and he's waiting on my and my money

As for the fail safe, Year, there can be another small battery somewhere, or a mechanics driven failsafe also. My buddy has a little lever on his truck under his hood to open the doors if needed.

but what do you guys think?

 

failsafe + bad friends + outside install = stolen car

 

my friend's kit was MIT, made in taiwan lol he went cheap on that and later found why it was cheap

 

haha. I'd find a nice place to hide the failsafe. believe me

 

go for it

 

Go for it, but do a good job on it.

 

Believe me, I will. Body work and custom fab is what I want to do for the rest of my career. (or start)

BTW me= sr2odetoofast4u

 

you could've pm'ed psm, he could've changed your name for ya..

make sure to get some pics man

 

also if you are going to do this. you can NOT race your car at atrack or anything. its against rules for safety. say you roll your car or are rendered unconsiouse for any reason, having shaved door handles rescue people cant just open your car door from the outside. so thats why they arent allowed at tracks. but if you dont intend on ever going to the track, then please post pics when its done.

i was going to do this as well, until i found about the whole track thing.

 

dammit. dammit dammit.

Thanx for the info. Are you 100% sure? I wouldn't care is they shattered the windows. heh. But I'm glad you told me, i was planning on doing this soon.

 

im dead serious... i mean it makes sense but who thinks of stuff like that.

hey look his car flipped over....oh wait we cant get him out, he was no door handles and we dont know where the hidden swithc is to open those doors