CRX: Suicide Doors

[Robert K. Kuhn]

Jennifer -

In my last email to you, I had mentioned that I thought suicide doors on a CRX might be much cooler than Lamborghini style doors. I also thought it was odd that I hadn't seen this done to a CRX. I figured that it was not as common because perhaps the pillar might not be strong enough to hold the door or that there wasn't sufficient mounting area (or both).

In any event, I came across this pic where it shows a 1988 CRX with a suicide door:

http://www.crx.org/southcal/images/crx88-sefb.jpg

Now that I've seen it can be done, I am now going to invest some time in seeing how easy or hard this will be. I've done this before on a VW Bug and though it was more or less straight forward, it still took above-average effort and skill to do it just right (part of the reason is because the stock VW Bug door has it's hinges exposed on the outside and if you want it to be clean, you have to place the hinge on the inside).

If I ever do it, I will be sure to let you know.

As cool as Lamborghini doors would look on your CRX, suicide doors (I feel) would be cooler. :^)


Robert K. Kuhn
CRX Owners Group President (http://www.crx.org/southcal)

1990 Honda CRXsi (http://www.hooligan.cc)
ICQ # 3714283 (nickname: godzilla)