autospot

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hey there im trying to find out how much a 93 rx7 passenger door weighs without the door panel but with the window in it. This is for shipping reasons. the person shipping the door seems to think its 160lbs. I DONT THINK SO. If you have this knowledge i would greatly appreciate your imput. thanks greg PS. Im not looking for for someone to go get their spare door and bring it to the bathroom scale and weigh it . But if you do that i would sure like to hear about it HA HA. THANKS FOR YOUR IMPUT

RonKMiller

Well, I know how much it weighs WITH the door panel but WITHOUT the window. but I am not going to tell you unless you deposit $200 in my PayPal account.

Why are you so concerned about this? Do you think the guy is trying to over charge you for shipping? Do you think we all work at UPS?

BUT MOST OF ALL:



Why am I replying to your post?

autospot

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No he is not trying to rip me off he,s a very honest person that has no clue as to what the door weighs . im guessing 80 lbs at the most . If someone knows i would appreciate the imput . Ronkmiller you were very helpful!!

jimlab

I should have weighed my parts while they were off the car, but I'd have to guess no more than 45-50 lbs. for a door, with glass, without door panels (which weigh almost nothing). They're more ackward than heavy, if you know what I mean.

Mazda had a "budget" of 50 lbs. for all the glass in the 3rd gen., from what I've heard. The rear hatch glass is so thin that if you place a finger on the inside of it and put another over it from the outside so you can see the thickness of the glass between them, you won't believe it.

Doesn't this guy have a scale? Tell him to stand on a bathroom scale with and without the door to get a ballpark figure. This isn't rocket science, obviously.

autospot

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thanks for the imfo

turbojeff

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Narrator's voice.

Jeff sees post, realizes he has pass door in the garage, no panel, with window. He walks to bathroom, grabs scale and heads to the garage.

2 min later...

The pass door with handles, window, trim and NO hinges weighs ~48-50lbs.

Next question!

Jim, rear window glass isn't all that thin, I have a broken pieces in the garage, nothing remarkable.

Jeff

autospot

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wow jeff you could probably sports cast a monday night game thanks for all the help and humor

jimlab

I'm the smartest man alive!! - Billy Madison

That's interesting, because they put an incredible amount of work into making the hatch glass as thin as possible and made it a structural member with its shape. Have you compared that glass to, say, the glass from the back window of a Dodge Dart?

BicuspiD

[QUOTE]Originally posted by autospot
[B]hey there im trying to find out how much a 93 rx7 passenger door weighs without the door panel but with the window in it. This is for shipping reasons. the person shipping the door seems to think its 160lbs. I DONT THINK SO. If you have this knowledge i would greatly appreciate your imput. [QUOTE]

A lot of times items that are too big for UPS go "dimensional weight". This is a system designed to bill for space taken up, as opposed to weight. You take the length x width x height /194. For example, when I ship out a fiberglass hood in a 80x77x9 box, I get billed for 286 pounds!!! Weight is maybe 40# total with all the shipping materials and box. Its pretty standard in LTL freight to charge by dims.

I would bet the box the door has to go in could classify 160# dimensional, easily. The charge sounds reasonable, depending on his method of shipment.

autospot

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its being shipped by r&l truck freight and from orlando to panama city through his company it was 327.00 and through r&l it was 48.00

ttpowerd

why don't you go and pick it up. It would be cheaper and its not that far is it?

tnt

I will be more than happy to ship it for you, I have an account w/ r&l and it will probably be cheaper because if it is going to a residence they charge you an extra $30 residential fee, than you can just pick it upo from my store down there...

Let Me know
Shaun

tfhuth

Can YOU feel the LOVE!! Say AMEN!!

What a great group of guys

ptrhahn

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48 lbs is pretty light.... figuring that some portion of it is glass and "mechanism" mirror, and latches... how much could one hope to save by dropping 3k on a set of CF FEED doors? 30-40 lbs tops (for two)?

jimlab

5 or 6 pounds per door, if that, would be my guess.

I think there are a lot of parts out there that sound great in theory, but are just an easy way to separate people from their money, if they're not careful. If a carbon fiber hood is barely worth the weight savings (2-3 lbs. max) then the carbon fiber doors are a huge waste of money for someone who isn't building a race car... and at that point, you'd save more weight by getting rid of all the glass.

autospot

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thanks shaun but its coming through curry printing,s acct. Hey my red 93 base caught fire this afternoon . corner tire was replacing the mid cat for me and when they took it down off the rack she lit up {midcat had oil/gas in it }no damage they had it out in seconds . Heres the scary part i was taking it to the store to park it inside for the night .Now for those who dont know me we have 31 cars stored in our store called autosport. heres a few of the nice ones testarossa ,308gt, 930 turbo, pantara, ninicooper, austin healey3000,jaguar xke, and 3 early70,s indy cars, Iam sooo lucky

RX7withNitrous

are you fixing one of the cars????

autospot

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yeah the one with the qtr damage

rx7qt

I would guess 50 lbs

Air-Rex

ninicooper????

Air-Rex

Hey, what 70's Indy cars, Post some pics

autospot

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i have to get a digital camera or find some one to take the pictures . theres a tom pryce indy .Its a cosworth v8 82 model ,a surtees 73 model , and a lotus 72 model

tfhuth

I'm sure he meant to type M not N.

autospot

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oops that s right minicooper.Hey im working on the pictures of the cars hopefully by saturday ill have them