I like jes's it looks sick... If you somehow integrated the original fender in there it would look bad ass. And then keep the original head lights and signals. maybe get rid of the running corner lights and maybe put a light on the bar. I am just throwing things out there. If i knew how to do any of this kind of stuff i would.
I think youre right. I will try and integrate a fender in there somehow. Time is slowly running out, and I am no where near done. I did pick up a LED turn signal to mess around with and see how things will work.
So here is some tech of whats happening in the doors. This is a '89 2 door with manual everything, so Im sure things are changed for those of you with power/ 4 doors/ different years. But generally I assume its pretty close.
This is how the window mechanism is routed. It follows the red line, either in a metal tube, or rubber tube depending on where you are. Its attached at three places. The two green places are riveted onto the door, while the blue is the window roller-uppy thing.
Door cut in half
Here you can see what one of the brackets looks like that you lose, as well as the rubber tube that has the cable in it(when the window is up).
This is what the cable looks like
Here we have the window holder thingy-madudad. This is how the factory gets the window to roll all the way up past the upper body line. This is also the reason why everything sits so low in the door and makes my life hard.
When you cut this high, you do run into issues with where the hinge is
This is what composes a door hinge. From L to R, hinge, plate that locates the holes on the door, and the backing plate that sits inside the door and where the hinge screws to
On the bottom of the door you can see where I marked out where I was going to french in the plate thing. The hole in the center of it is where all the door wires go( in my case it was only the speaker wires).
And finally, this is a vent that sits on the B pillar. Im not sure what the point of it is ( I know my '99 doesnt have it, and Im not sure if my dads 4 door '89 have it), but it seems I have some body flex. Im hoping this is old since my frame is pretty well plated, I have a huge ass front bumper, and T&T belly pan, which gets the frame tied together and strengthened pretty well. The boatsides and cage should make it even better.
Thats it for now. I was able to the door cut, the hinges cut and rewelded, and the door rehung. All that was after I went to Airgas for some Argon.CO2 and they gave me a new one that was empty.
Didnt figure that out until I was all the way home and had all my tools out.
Tomorrow night I will try and cut out the rocker and get the 2x6 in place.
