Another quiz!

I will let the thread go for 2 days. Everybody guess (yes, you can put the same thing as someone else if you think they are right).

One winner will be randomly chosen from all the correct guesses and gets a voucher for $10 off an order of $20 or more from JWest Engineering.

The only correct answer will be the one I'm thinking of, even if you come up with something else that is a good response.

OK, you guys moaned that I did not give you a perfect picture with the answer highlighted and circled last time. So this time no picture.


The question:
I have an early '73 914. The driver's door got bashed in an SUV encounter. My buddie's '75 parts car has a good door, but there is something different about it (it would work but I don't want to use it).

Brad has a '71 door shell, but he tells me that it will not be a direct bolt-in.

*Tell me (2 answers) what is different about the other doors*

Extra bonus (just to show off, you don't get anything extra) tell me the proper interchange for my door.

1) side impact door beam.
2) window regulator.

interchange: carbon fiber skin - that car ought to be on the track anyway.

EXACTLY what he said! Except the carbon fiber thing - 914 owners are notoriously cheap and would go with fiberglass

Side impact beam on the 75
Window regulator on the 71

Maybe stating the obvious, but wouldn't the proper interchange be another door form a 73? I think a 74 door would work, too. But what do I know.

Easy... side impact reinfordements and different window winder mechanisms. Also the door channel end caps are different.

The later door is also heavier.

The earlier door is probably more rusty

The 75 door is heavier, due to the side-impact beam that was added in mid-73. The vinyl pattern is different as well (as are the window cranks), but those are trivial to swap.

The 71 is not a bolt-in, because (among other things) the door glass is different and it will not fit the later style roof seals.

If you need to have a bolt-on part that is light, then you need the early-73 door. You can also modify a later door, but that is hardly a bolt-in at that point.

--DD

uh... took the words right out of my mouth!

I'm making a fiberglass door skin for one of our members using my mold. If there is anyone else out there that wants to save some weight, PM me.

BTW, mine are lighter than early or late doors.

Paul

Wouldn't the early 73 have the newer regulators without the side impact beam?

Only the early 73s. They added the beam in mid-year some time.

--DD

I like what D.D. said.

Bernie

OK, I finally got around to finishing this.

We had 8 correct answers. In '73 the window regulator was changed from the bug "cable in a tube" style to the 911 gear style. Then in mid '73 the door beams were added. The bonus answer was that if you have an early '73, the correct door was only made for the first half of '73 production.

I randomly drew from the correct answers and acox914 is the winner!

You all missed the real problem...

The doors were different colours (sp. colors in US English)

Andy

hey! thanks! ive been gone for a while! just saw the PM james. thanks a bunch.

im saving for a rennshifter sometime in a few years....
so id offer my discount to someone who needs it, if thats ok.

Thanks again!

is it first post first serve? I will take it! I need a proportioning valve and would like to check this one out. Promise to report on fit/finish/effectiveness and show install pics....

Bill

It's fine with me! Just pass along the voucher number.

Thanks for the poll. Now I know that I have an early '73 drivers side door on my car (haven't opened up the panel on the passenger side yet). I was wondering why I had the late style mechanism but no door beams.

Jonathan