I saw a photo a couple of years ago or so , of some door handles drilled with a nice look I liked...search didn't help me...anybody out there know how to find the photo

Random drilled door handle pic from a car show.

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Because that much weight matters? I never got it. Especially when they look as crappy as that pic. Why not drill holes in the body too?
But there are some famous cars with that treatment, so be it.

I think it looks kinda cool if done right, but I wouldn't do it on my car, personally

Yuck

It looks like a shotgun blast.

It's historically correct.

Take a weak pot metal piece of shit casting and drill holes in it. No problems here.

Rendering the value to 0.

Looks good to me just needs some dried cheese hanging out of the holes

There are too many holes for that small part.

I wouldn't.
I agree with Ury. Drilling holes in pot metal like that is asking for a broken door handle some day while its pouring out and you are rushing to get into your car.

Or broken while s murderer is chasing you and your call is the only source of safety.

Zach

I would think the handle would fail very quickly if used.
I imagine when this is done on a race car, the handle is likely never used... likely the inside latch or pins are used exclusively making the handle decorative.

that's the only way I think it could hold up

I didn't do it and couldn't see it working out well
b

This was done on the original Meaney 914-6gt.

Here's Magnus Walker's version.

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Has anyone looked at the costs of having repo door handles made from billet aluminum?
Could the handles possibly be sand cast as well?
I know that while not a truly rare item at this time, they are still hard to find in good shape -

Owners stand to improve the hp to weight ratio by going on a diet. 3 or 4 grams of pot metal doesn't mean shit.

Besides looking racy and important it make no sense to drill some holes into these pricey door handles.
Instead I would recommend to personally save some weight before going to the track.
Benno

Give me a break !!! I am six three with a 31 inch waist and a six pack , all you butter balls telling me to lose weight !....I don't care for the one in the first photo , but several years ago I saw one with a nice pattern ....oh yeah , the running from a mugger thing....seriously ?....Guys that tried to help , thanks , I'm still hoping the right photo shows up.....And Brant , I am trying to drill as many holes as you did...only using less metal....need to make my Brant holes were I can

Porsche makes them as well as Sierra Madre. I dont know the quality on either though.

Pete

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Holes are good!


I'm hoping to loose another 30lbs of car weight yet this spring
I should be able to get into the 1799lb range wet (I hope)

Because Ralph? When history is fugly and useless. Let's please stop the "just because" thinking. This mystifies me. Why did he do it? I respect Ralph, but this shouldn't be a thing. Or please convince me how else this makes sense? I'm open minded, sell me.

You like the color red? Or blue? Like Fuchs or Mahles? Prefer a Gt valence or normal, stock ride height or lowered? Its all personal taste. Get over it. If the owner like holes in his parts and thinks it looks cool, it makes him happy. Who cares what anyone else thinks. And why would anyone so adamantly voice their dislike? Its freedom of expression. As soon as you start asking why, and criticizing, its over. Sure it may not be for you. Sure it may not be mainstream or "accepted" in the "inner" circle. It may piss off the purists. who cares? Its holes!

You asked a question and got an answer. Rob wasn't defending it or forcing it on you. History is sometimes - just because.

Nice first post. Reminds me of someone who "used" to post around here. Don't miss him at all.

Pretty simple really. Because it's mine, I want to, and it's not your car to decide...

^I like that one, not overly done.

Kind of a bad picture but I believe this is Jeff Hines car...

Couple more. Hope that helps...

Totally fair. None of my replies were meant to pick on you, Rob.
It's also ok that I'm baffled by this mod and am curious what the point of it is.

It's a fair question. I want to build a period correct GT with detail elements. I could easily have not put the mechanical headlight pulls eliminating the motors but I did because it is one of the details. Lots of ways to put an oil cooler on, but I used the replica shrouding right down to the same Setrab cooler. Carbon fiber deck lids were the same price as the fiberglass with balsa that were on the original GT's, I went with the fiberglass. I want mine to be a tribute to the efforts those guys put in back in the day. I'm not trying to fool anyone in to thinking it's real. I just want realistic and this is one of those period correct elements.

Since Magnus Walker was mentioned in earlier post, here's a photo of my wife and I with him at the DRT Porsche show in Miami two weeks ago. His cars are amazing and he was so giving of his time for photo ops. Great guy!

I've got fiberglass ,carbon fiber and a 13b rotary....my dream is sub 1800 lbs , we will see...between one year of the 24 hours of Daytona and the next My 911 lost eleven pounds....paying attention to grams , my friend Mel's car , a Camaro gained 56 .....both of use just adding brackets , mounts and such....old racer speak...grams is ounces, ounces is pounds , pounds is speed....

Your ROI will take you years to earn back. Making a custom piece for CSOB 914 owners is not a way to earn money. I was working with a guy that had a contact in China that was going to cast them for me. The numbers just didn't work.

If I were to replace my door handles, I would replace them with these.

Sometimes I use the big holes for pizza cheese some times I use the small holes for tacos

When I worked for a jet engine company, there were some programs where if you could figure out a way to shave some grams off a part, you could get a cash bonus. End goal was to drop more than a hundred pounds, and was eventually reached.

Reminds me of the early 80's.

Seems silly to drill out the handles and still keep the lock in there....

Some of those look like they didn't bother to take the handle off the car to drill them, how difficult to remove handle assembly (seriously, i don't think I've ever taken them off or apart before)

Might have to take mine off this weekend and throw mine on the mill

I want see what Mike does with them...

Joe Sharp
Team NARP

The pic of the drilled out chain rings reminds me of the mania to reduce weight on racing bikes before carbon fiber and aluminum. Back in the day, a fellow cyclist said looking at a Swiss cheesed bike, If the guy took a big dump before the race he would reduce more weight than that.

Mine, drilled last weekend. It wasn’t easy. They certainly don’t seem any weaker. I’m seldom in mugger murderer neighborhood, my car hasn’t seen rain in years. Oh, and that is one of the dumbest things I’ve heard here!

By the way, it’s a total of 3/4# side to side. I don’t know why Ralph and team did it. I just know that they did.