Mike's Journal

Mike

Back from the bodyshop, touching up the paint around the cage, and today finished installing my new seats and gutting the doors, making the windows easily removable for trailering, but glass comes out for track use.


passenger seat


driver seat


Passenger door


Modified rear channel


roll cage from trunk

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SPOHN

Noice

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Mike

First, I removed the door glass and inner moulding at the top of the door.

I then removed the regulator mechanism, and drilled a small hole and inserted a screw into the regulator arms to hold the window holders in their full up position. I cut the rear one down, but left the forward one full length.

The arms are only secured by one bolt on top, and can move to and fro. To secure them so the glass is fixed in the proper place while installed, on the front one, I used an existing stud on the arm, a metal strap and a hole where the speakers mount to locate the bottom of the arm in the proper position.

On the rear arm, I cut it down smaller and used a strap to locate it in place along with an existing bolt hole in the door.

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Mike

still need to secure the door opening pulls and route the trunk opening cord out to the license plate area.

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travisjb

Looks good. You can attach something to the little nubs on the door openers to make it easier to grab/pull... important when car on fire... I used a metal piece that eventually started wearing into the paint on my door roll bar, so you might think about using hardened rubber or plastic pieces

like your idea for trunk popper - stick it out the former license plate area... just removed mine entirely and using spring straps, but the oem pieces don't weigh too much so i might consider retaining and doing what you're planning on if i could do it over again

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Mike

I was thinking of some kind of loop on the end to pull with

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Sh0velMan

I was thinking of looking at some bike parts...

A brake lever (super light for racing bicycles) could be adapted to function as a super light door handle, I think.

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daisuke149

Boxster CS door handle..

Mr&Mrs

Nice job Mike

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HKYStormFront

mike that cage looks awesome man!

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Mike

Thanks!

Did an oil change today, swapped out to Valvoline VR1 race oil, since I can pick it up locally instead of ordering online. Also flushed the brake fluid and moved the trunk opener out to the license plate area. Already had a hole drilled from the cabin from when I had my laser shifters installed.

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Porsche: 93 968 / 23 Macan GTS / 93 968

Mike

Secured the door pulls and relocated trunk release outside of car. Using zip ties for handles, for now.

Bought some little rubberized clamps from Lowe's, powdercoated them satin black and used factory holes for anchors:




anchored this one down inside and have it just sticking out the back license plate hole. I was going to have it on the inside, right behind my drivers seat, but with the wing, it requires pulling on it while simultaneously lifting the hatch, and the car doesn't lock anymore anyways.

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sig11

Looks nice, Mike!

Sh0velMan

Mike, do you have any advice or tips on how to go about removing the electric locks from the car?

I can't find a safe way to unlock and open the door in one pull so I'm going to remove the lockers.

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Mike

I don't recall it being too hard. The drivers side was a little difficult, had to unbolt the lock mechanism and the door handle to remove the cables connecting them. the passenger side was just the lock mechanism, then I cut all the wires going into the door and removed them. Didn't do anything with the trunk mechanism, but it doesn't work now because of the wire removal in the drivers door.

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NISSAN: 75 280Z / 86 300ZX GLL /87 Sentra SE / 03 350Z / 23 Z
Porsche: 93 968 / 23 Macan GTS / 93 968