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Has anyone seen a good sissor door conversion for the mx5 (na6) i'm sick of stuggling out of the car in car parks with no space for doors to open.

mx52nv do you have any comments.... anything at all?

1red5 wrote:mx52nv do you have any comments.... anything at all?

Have I become a post whore?
or am I missing something?

bpt4w - try ebay

they look kool

but i wouldn't get them on my car

i don't want the WTF attention

well not after wtf attention but the convenience of getting out of a car with out doing sparco sprint seat shuffle in a car park , have to be quite limber .

Hence why I sold the Sprints to get the Roadsters
Cost almost double but so much easier to live with on a day to day basis.
And still has everything the Sprint offered (except FIA approval but all the motorsports events I was doing never required it).

But hey if you want scissors door - to each his own
Would definitely be one of the few in Australia if not the only one.

I wouldn't recommend it, it's a real pain to do and you will forever be restricted to using the doors that way.
I have a friend who had it done and although it worked great it limits his doors to only opening a maximum of 30% in the normal direction, he took it to get some work done and the mechanic thought it was just stuck and gave it a pull, ended up with 2 bent panels, quarter panel and door.
Also the ever present legal issues, so if you ever get out with police watching you have to carefully slip through the smaller opening to avoid drawing attention to them (as they don't open all the way)

I dunno... somehow having a huge lump of metal where your body ends up while exitting the car seems a little counter intuitive to me... I'd imagine instead of doing some Olympic Gymnastics routine... you would now need to limbo out...

If it's that bad... just put the roof down and jump out... Dukes of Hazzard style...
If anyone ever did that while boarding my car though... I will stab them with a very rusty hammer... multiple times...

PUR157 wrote:If it's that bad... just put the roof down and jump out... Dukes of Hazzard style...
If anyone ever did that while boarding my car though... I will stab them with a very rusty hammer... multiple times...

Maybe you should try it sometime, easier than you would think, one hand on the rollbar, one on the windscreen pillar, a little jump and your done.
It's the running jump from behind the car that will do damage, especially when your feet hit the steering wheel (not my car)

I'd struggle with the sparco's before putting in sissor doors in
There is lots of things you wouldn't find out till you actually got them

-as has been said before normally opens to only 30%

-door was never designed to rotate upwards so its extra stress on the chassis of the door

-lining the doors up becomes a bitch and you have to spend top dollar to get a kit out of the states

-I've never seen a kit fitted without the panels needing to be repainted

-they put extra stress on the mounts as while in the air they sway from side to side aprox 80-100mm

-I've known people that have done it for sheer novilty value but they have ended up going back to their original hinges

-in specificly an mx5 where the seal at the top of the window is paramount sicssor doors would make it harder to seal because of the adjustments needed to get the window and frame to seal against the soft top rubber

-I am not saying it would be impossible
-nor am i saying sicssor doors are not cool

You just need to make sure that the sicssor door thing is where you really want to go

factor in a kit costing over 2500 from the states
then probably another 1000 to get it fitted and panels cut up etc
and an extra 900-1000 for repainting the 1/4 panels once fitted

They arn't a cheap exercise!

Ryno.

mx52nv wrote:

1red5 wrote:mx52nv do you have any comments.... anything at all?

Have I become a post whore?
or am I missing something?

bpt4w - try ebay

No no... I was just referring to the fact that I'm not the only one here who cares about speeling things rite

haha two rules :

if you can't spell scissor, you aren't allowed to do this to an mx5.

if you can spell scissor, you aren't allowed to do this to an mx5.

Sounds easier and much cheaper just to swap the seats !

devolutio wrote:haha two rules :

if you can't spell scissor, you aren't allowed to do this to an mx5.

if you can spell scissor, you aren't allowed to do this to an mx5.

Amen to that brother.
Lamborghinnis are designed with these doors in mind and they have pneumatic actuators, pumps, etc that can probably hold/push over a 500kg in weight.
Even if these types of conversions work, I have heard from trusted sources that they will ok for the first couple of dozen openings and closings, but then it starts to sag and you get the "farm-gate-swaying-in-the-breeze" thing happening.

Hrmz what are the expected weight savings?