so what your saying its going to look stupid with the door opeing like that?
First: VERY nice looking build so far!! I want to see it when your done!.
As for the door question: Seems to me a LOT of work for no gain at all in functionality. In fact, your likely to get a REDUCTION in functionality for all your efforts. Almost all of the attempts to do something like that, on close inspection look like cr4p. After a few months of use you can almost always see cracks in body filler, hinges starting to fail or rip loose, doors no longer fit properly and so on. It takes a LOT of work and engineering to make a system that will really hold up over time, not fall apart and continue to look good with the abuse of people not really understanding how to properly operate the door, swinging on the door, slamming the door, road vibration, frame twist/flex.... blah, blah, blah....
As for looking cool, I have never really liked gull wing doors (Delorian) or bat wing doors (Some of the super high $$ super fast super low to the ground imported sports cars). Doors are doors. Installing electric windows and locks wound be way more "Cool" to me than screwing around with making them open weird.
Your installing carpet in the truck so I am assuming your not going to be beating this thing in the woods and mud hole. If you were going to do that then I would say no to the electric windows/locks. But it sounds like your making a nice big family truck, so makes sense to have the fancy electric windows/locks.
Install a really good A/C system with some custom ducting that looks factory. Get some of that spray on sound and temperature insulation and coat the entire underside, firewall and inside. Spray the inside of the doors, under the dash.. Everywhere. Then carpet and upholstery over that. Make it as quiet, comfortable and generally nice inside (While still maintaining that rugged, tough as nails military look) as you can. To me that would be a lot cooler that funky opening doors....
Any plans to upgrade to a more modern, more powerful power plant, maybe an automatic trans? (Again, cooler and WAY more functional than funny opening doors)...
Of course it is YOUR truck and not mine, you do what makes YOU happy..
- Thanks... For some reason I forgot about that...!!
