Adam-D
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Registered: 11th May 02
Location: Cheshire
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fibreglass boot
trimmed boot
hmmmmmmm
opinions
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Mattb
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Registered: 2nd Feb 03
Location: Under your sisters bed
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trimmed fiberglass boot 
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broster
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Registered: 6th Dec 02
Location: Drives: E39
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trim the standard one.... you have a grinder... get to it......its free and fun
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Adam-D
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Registered: 11th May 02
Location: Cheshire
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i cant see cutting the little inner bit loseing that much weight?
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Stu
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Registered: 3rd May 00
Location: Madchester UK Drives: 2014 BMW M135i
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I would personally go down th.e fibreglass route. Wouldnt risk fackin up a good boot lid!
Stu 
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Adam-D
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Registered: 11th May 02
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well im getting a fibre bonnet purley cos my orig bonnet is fecked
do you keep the heated window
or get poly carb-heated windows?
or just do without?
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Stu
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Registered: 3rd May 00
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Do without.........then you can take those wires out! they must weigh a couple of grams!!! If your gonna do it........go stupid!!!
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mwg
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Registered: 19th Feb 04
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Dunno how you lot can live with a stripped out car unless its only being used for on the track or the quarter mile! Especially in winter!
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broster
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its not that bad really, mines no colder than it was with an interior, i found painting the floor black actually helped, maybe more mental then physically! get poly carb windows dude...
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Stu_22
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Registered: 25th Mar 02
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Well I weighed both the other day Fibreglass with locking pins and standard hinges no window (plastic for performance dragging there ar5se dont go there) 4kg
Steel tailgate and window nothing else 12-13kg
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broster
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humm i was going to call plastics for performance about the windows... they bad then
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Stu_22
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Ordered mid August and he said he was just about to go on holiday for a couple of weeks. Then the CNC machine guy for the sliders go's on holiday god knows what they are doing now.
Ring them up but say I hear your good but a bit slow see what they say
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Adam-D
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so the fibre one weighs bout 9kg less than steel one
thats my mind made up
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ed
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Registered: 10th Sep 03
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I wouldn't trim it with an angle grinder.. Get some air tools and do it properly.... Though a fibreglass boot is so much lighter.
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Adam-D
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now doors?
hmmmm
wondering on locks? no locks?
cut out the inners? so its just a skin
polycarb windows too
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Cybermonkey
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Registered: 22nd Sep 02
Location: Sydney, Australia
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i wouldnt want to crash if you have a fibreglass bonnet
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Adam-D
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oh ill specify
its a track car only
wont be on the road
will have all rally spec stuff, cage seats etc
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Stu
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Registered: 3rd May 00
Location: Madchester UK Drives: 2014 BMW M135i
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Same here, when I had my stripped Corsa I didnt even notice the difference.
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Doug
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Registered: 8th Oct 03
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Lad i know has cut every inner skin out of his as its used for hill climb with a 2.0 engine on TB's
IMO if you have the money then get fibreglass or if you are doing it on the cheap get the grinder out!!!
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Stu_22
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Registered: 25th Mar 02
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quote:
Originally posted by Cybermonkey
i wouldnt want to crash if you have a fibreglass bonnet
Bonnet doesnt do alot in a crach apart form fold up and away I doubt it absorbs much of the impact energy
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ed
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quote:
Originally posted by Cybermonkey
i wouldnt want to crash if you have a fibreglass bonnet
I wouldn't want to crash my car full stop 
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Cybermonkey
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Registered: 22nd Sep 02
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quote:
Originally posted by Stu_22
quote:
Originally posted by Cybermonkey
i wouldnt want to crash if you have a fibreglass bonnet
Bonnet doesnt do alot in a crach apart form fold up and away I doubt it absorbs much of the impact energy
i beg to differ. that whole crumpling and folding absorbs a shit load of energy during an impact. sure it needs the crash bars to help disperse the motion away from the occupants, but the bonnet is a major factor in a crash, they are designed that way if you look underneath at the cross latice rib construction
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5chaap2k
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Registered: 20th Apr 05
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hmmz, anyone ever spotted a fibreflass trimmed boot and a fibreglass badboyed bonnet?
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