[DeTomaso] carbon fiber doors?

[Roland Jaeckel]

For the most of us (me included) the weight saving starts on the driver seat. 
This is the cheapest but not eaysiest way to save weight in any car.
Alt least we can use shorter belts, that saves weight as well :-))
Roland Jaeckel
DeTomaso Parts Center Europe
www.detomaso.de

It is very easy to miss the point in search of weight savings. A hood is a 
hood,
so here a light hood will do a great difference. But in the case of the 
Pantera
as a whole, a carbone fibre chassis would not make the same difference since
we are bolting on moost of the weight. Much of the same apply to the doors,
we are bolting on moost of its weight. This means that the bolt on stuff 
will be
as expensive as the shell of the door to fabricate.
Carbone fibre doors is also questionable in a street application from a 
safety
standpoint since a side impact will destruct the panet in to knife edged 
tools
cutting up the driver. A race car is supposed to have a door cage and 
greater
panel to driver distance.
Therefore in a street application I should stay with the "bolt on" 
lightening stuff.
Goran