Does anyone have pictures or suggestions on breaking the welds holding the crash beams in place between the inner and outer door panel?

Even pictures of the beams out of the car might help a little.

 

A cutting wheel? I guess I dont really know what the welds look like, but thats the first thing that popped to my head.

Are you building a drag car or something? If its a street car, i'd keep them in there for the safety factor.

 

I'll try and take some pics of mine..just be real careful use a die grinder and a drill watch out for the outer door skin

 

I was thinking about cutting them and leaving a small piece of the end of each one that is spot welded to the door.

Any thoughts?

 

Definately possible, but why?

 

I really hope your not doing this on a street car

 

I'm just stupid enough to. I may leave just the driver door

I think the US is a little too conservative with crash test standards. Although without the beams entirely that might be too far the other way.

 

Well I hope you plan to tell anyone that you may sell this thing to someday that you did this.

 

Why do you want to do this?

 

even if the us is a bit conservative with impact ratings, it scored very low for side impact with the crash beams in place. removing them is a terrible idea.

 

this is probably not the smartest thing to do to drop weight. I mean im sure there's other things you can possibly do to shed weight. AMS small brake kit?, mini battery kits, drive around with one seat, maybe even a fuel cell. But then your almost not looking at a street car. g/l

 

Yes I defiantly would disclose this. The car is getting pretty wild so anyone interested at this point would probably be looking to use it as a track car. But I do know what you are saying. You should be open in disclosing things of this nature.




I've done almost all of those things but still want more, thus the beam removal.


So any pictures? Anyone?

 

I can tell you this is NOT true. I work for Ford and currently on one of the door programs. Engineering and Safety always are head to head on the requirements and typically settle for bare minimum and in some cases below minimum for first shots. Then there is a SCR written for the design change later to meet requirements.

 

I'm referring to the requirements set by the US government. I worked in impact testing at Chrysler and would always see how every other market requires less than the US. This is usually why the European variant of the same car is decently lighter.

 

Its funny how many people say dont do this and how many people remove their front or rear crash beams.