With the seats underway and just about everything else marked ´done´ on the list, the crossed out Lexan side window are suddenly at the top 

Measured the glass and it is about 0.7 m2 together, thus potentially some 4 (max. 5) kilos there...

Please PLEASE tell me again why not, why I should leave ´well enough´ alone 

Does it need to be:
watertight?
with functioning windows?

If the later is true, can you lose the heavy window regulator?

Watertight would be nice but we have 300 days sun/year ánd it is under roof.

Yes, I would like it functioning up and down. Would not mind winding by hand, in fact prefer it, but cannot see that being a feaseble mod.

There is your bookend for door mods then!
Have you already removed the speakers?

Quote from: StuC on June 15, 2019, 21:01Have you already removed the speakers?

Gave it a thought in combo with taking the audio unit out. The thing is I really appreciate than mine has a cassette player. That is véry nostalgic cool because I have some casettes from when I crossed most of Europe on my K75 in the eighties and those tapes in the Walkman. Have not played them since because we went CD. So, no!
It só fits the retro dash and now bare steel look.

You could just buy a Walkman! It would weigh less!!

Quote from: StuC on June 15, 2019, 21:37You could just buy a Walkman! It would weigh less!!

Still have the old, direct drive and all thing. Direct drive stood for battery eating btw. and rechargeble batteries weren´t what they are today. Could now hook it up to the USB port.
For a good sound would need to use the car´s speakers though so there´s a good idea thwarted again. Darn.

Just remembered I should still have another storage box of cassettes. I have nó idea how that survived my moving house to live on a sail ship but I saw it sómewhere recently. It is one of those boxes with cassette sized partitions so there múst be cassettes in there. By Jove; probably unopened in over 30 years! Nice job for Tuesday when I am back from Madrid. If I remember; have a lunch date with the lady in red. That will distract me.

There ís a way to gut the door and still have up/down windows by leaving the window sliders and use the lower bolt hole in the window pane to attach an old seat belt. The male buckle bit to the belt, the female bit low on the door panel so when the belt is clipped, the window sits taut against the stops.
Did that in a 944 for a friend áges ago.
Anyone know what the regulators weigh? In the 944 they weighed several kilos but the MR has wires whereas that one had hefty metal scissor arms.





Like the idea: Bolt the safety belt to 15/16/17.
Pull it up against  5/6.
Let it slide up/down through 18&23 between 3&4.
Delete all the regulator mechanism and still have an up/down window!

Short update:
Did a nude shoot with the car.
Malageña love observed that the car appeared to move through traffic/corners like one block; her way to say it is more rigid.
Took the highway route back with the tricky ´float´ corners; véry positive improvement.
Took the rear view mirror out.

Something to note: on facebook somebody said that the JDM doors are lacking some of the reinforcement inside and that makes them really light. Havent seen pics or anything but maybe its worth to look into it. The other option would be some "carbon" doors from kadean or something like this was the name.

The JDM is said to have no side impact reinforcement.

Been looking at the doors/door cards and it is not really feaseble to go the seatbelt route; the female buckle can not be fixed solidly in a practical/functional place and the male clip will be in the way when the window is up.
May still go Lexan as a straight replacement but sofar have not heard back from Templar.

Test 

WARNING, nude woman in car   
Although unrecognisable and US movie 16 fit, do not open when you don´t want to see or are in an unsuitable environment:

https://myalbum.com/photo/Qmd6AyogYhYB/1k0.jpg

Oh and yes, chrome mirror cover/door handle woúld look good.

By all means take it down Schnazzle and appologies if it shakes forum founding rules 

Quote from: Petrus on June 21, 2019, 11:06Test 

WARNING, nude woman in car   
Although unrecognisable and US movie 16 fit, do not open when you don´t want to see or are in an unsuitable environment:

https://myalbum.com/photo/Qmd6AyogYhYB/1k0.jpg

Oh and yes, chrome mirror cover/door handle woúld look good.

By all means take it down Schnazzle and appologies if it shakes forum founding rules 

Tasteful! Haha. Well played

Put a nude woman in your car and I don't think anyone will notice your chrome door handles (or lack of)! 🤣

Quote from: househead on June 21, 2019, 16:42Put a nude woman in your car and I don't think anyone will notice your chrome door handles (or lack of)! 🤣

Good point.
The previous nude, Mountain Girl, in the MR session drew the attention of a road construction crew. They were cheering loud and clear above the quite loud and clear superbike exhaust :-)

WARNING, nude woman in car!
Although the only one passing the decency norms still open at own risk:

https://myalbum.com/photo/VXjlsysn0ooL/1k0.jpg

For today I had doing Mountain Girl a favour on the agenda.
A collegue of her and husband were passing through the region and the idea was to have lunch together.
The collegue lóves my MR so we were meeting up at a gas station at the highway in the MR. Then they would follow us to the restaurant.
I had offered, apart from behaving good, that the collegue would swap places with Mountain Girl.

Right.
Rounded the roundabout at the gas station, swerved onto the parking lot and ... there were two sparsely clad young women cheering me on. So I hotted up the swerve in a short drift.
Louder cheering and ... ´can we take a photo with the car??´
Long story short they sat in the passenger seat, sexy poses, one even raised her shirt. With bóth draped over the car, they askied the collegue´s husband to take a photo.
He had his jaw dropped to the floor, so the collegue obliged.
Girls gave me a hug and off they giggled.
Yes, it ís different under the sun!

Mountain girl sussed the husband; ´never mind, it´s normal´.
Well not nórmal, but not extreme and it sussed him.

After lunch we changed the swap and husband descended into the MR.
His wife had to go to the powder room first so we went ahead, giving me time to put some heat into the tires and do one lap on the industrial park behing the gas station.
After two fast-ish corners, going a bit downhill into a blind 90 dgree right, I braked late: Before I hit the brakes he braced his feet deep in the foot well while grabbing for the roof handle... which was not there, so he was like chasing a bug in the air before grabbing onto the door handle with both hands.

At the parking lot he almost féll out of the door and was speechless while we had to wait for a few minutes.

When on the way home Mountain Girl observed that although she was unsure about what they were thinking of us, she was very appreciative of me having been entertaining company over lunch.
So having fun resulted in bonus points, WOW!!!

The only thing I goofed up with was in not asking the chirpy girls to share the photos, pointed out Malageña gf when I told her that. True 
I will try better my behaviour 

Fun days.

Quote from: Ardent on June 23, 2019, 18:34Fun days.

Well, you´ve just been down here, you know it ís different out here under the southern sun! Imagine having the MR2 hére....

To keep my sanity, what's left of it.
I best not.
Drive me bonkers.

Pending the seats and frustrated by the mirrors, pondering about the aerodynamics.
Although the boot lip is surprisingly effective, shelved the wing thing for the moment.
The front lip works too, as does the bonnet vent so... looking at the nappy. Im am convinced it has an aerodynamic function but it is both a eyesore and a low point under the car. So, looked for aero solutions better looking and less low.
Ordered:





I hópe to be able to delete the nappy and have less drag. Will do a quadruple* test: As OEM, without nappy, with diffuser only, nappy and diffuser.

Concerning teh windscreen mirror I am happy with the delete option. It does improve the view. Would have lóve to have shown you lot a photo  with a nude woman in front of car alert but  have not come round to that; the third model´s and my agenda have not coincided yet.

So there you have it; aerodynamics, weight reduction and nude women ; three car priorities, not necessarily in that order :-)

* enjoying a La Trappe Quadruple.  Táste apart, the La Trappe beer is arguably one of top three (Westvleteren and Achel are the other two) best made réal beers of the world.

The rubber lip/splitter works very well.
I stuck it as far foreward as possible under the front part of the bumper skirt only, not onto the black wheel well bottoms so as not to infer with the flaps in front of the wheels.
The stability on the highway ncreased noticably. Apparently it deminishes lift.
A very cheap and definitely functinal addition.






Also made a provisional carboard ´Mongo´ and the difference is indeed quite worthwhile. Well, not the carboard version, but I would most defintely fit a perspex one!

Just FYI, there is an oe solution for what you have done.

how to LINKY here

Can't remember off the top of my head if this was only on FL's or not. I remember the discussion but not the outcome! Must be getting old! Lol

Your post was my cue to dó it. Credit wehere it is due; your´s it is!

Mine has a different profle; not ´L´ but more of a splitter profile. 






Furthermore I stuck it as far forward as the bottom allows, so used self tappers to back up the adhesive tape.

Although it sits forward, the black/profile, maybe all modern cars having something akin or whatever results in it being totally unobtrusive.

Subjectively the feel is like having the frunk bucket with spare wheel and tool kit mounted at the front again.

Quote from: StuC on July  6, 2019, 12:03Just FYI, there is an oe solution for what you have done.

how to LINKY here

btw. I put a carton on the straw stubbles. Lying on my back had four Frenchies ´helping´ me. Had to go inside to get my son to distract them...

@Petrus

Can you recommend a website or resource where you can enter the specifics of a rim that you require and it will come back with the matches? Or just a lot of leg work drilling through various combos on various sites?
Rim weight is often missingfrom the spec, so how does one find this info bar ringing up the manufactureres.

Was the 7j up front a compromise or a deliberate decision on your part as stock would be 6j.
They don't do a 6j, hence my question above.

The enkies you have gone for, are all enkie in that range lightweight, is the RP1 the lightweight daddy of the lot?

Cheers
J

There are several even lighter options than the RPF1 but these are the only ones readily availeble in Europe and furthermore the best quality/specs/price.
I would have preferred Volk CE28 but alas; practically unobtanium, too exotic, too overpriced. They are roughly a kilo lighter but come at 2.5 times the Enkeis.
As such the RPF1 is the gold standard.

The 7J was forced upon me because of availebility; 6 and 6,5 would have been lighter still. As it is I am very content because the 195 front suits my style better than 185; it is just taht bit less initial understeer.

It is basically a lot of fingerwork but for rim weights I found a quite extensive russian table as the only reliable source.  It was earlier in the his thread:

https://japan-wheels.ru/static/japan-wheel-weight.xls

The only site I use/used is:

https://www.willtheyfit.com/