Anyone ever try to lighten the s13 rear hatch????

[driftin8ez]

has anyone ever took the carpet off the back hatch and cut away some of the metal bracing? The reason i wanted to do it was so i could get at the holes from the rear wing better and cover them up so they can't be pushed through. I just wanted to make sure before i do it that i wont mess up the "structural integrity" of the hole rear hatch. of course i will leave it so i can reattach the carpet and make it look like nothing has been done.
Modified by driftin8nez at 10:13 AM 10/11/2004

[sr20det]

why would you wana do that? the trunk is good the way it is. if you wana a lighter car might as well get a 1992 sentra ser. dont you think ?

[PantherRacer]

Replace the rear glass with a light-weight see-through plastic compund...really? I don't know that was just an Idea.

[w1ngzer0]

why would you wana do that? the trunk is good the way it is. if you wana a lighter car might as well get a 1992 sentra ser. dont you think ?

Most people do it for looks. You are not saving much weight with a lightweight hatch. Now if you were to take it off thats a different story

[driftin8ez]

ok i picked a bad title my question was not how much weight could be saved by chopping up my rear hatch. The question was weather or not i could cut some of the bracing away so i could put a piece of metal behind the rusted holes that my spoiler left. This way it will give strength to the bondo so it cant be pushed through.

[BuudWeizErr]

yeah, that sounds like a good idea, structural integrity is overrated anyways.

you can drill holes in your framerails to kill some weight too you know.

[driftin8ez]

i'll take that as a sarcastic remark. I'll just leave it how it is.Thanx for the help you really set me straight on this one.

[574-240sx]

yeah, that sounds like a good idea, structural integrity is overrated anyways.

you can drill holes in your framerails to kill some weight too you know.

That halarious.

[NE240sx]

I tried twice to patch the big rusted holes left from that stupid foam factory spoiler. I pop-riveted metal in there and then filled it up with bondo and painted the whole thing. It lasted maybe 6-8 months each of the times I did it. It looked good at first, and then one winter and it was toast. I got lucky and found a perfect hatch at a junk yard on a $35 for "all you can carry" day. I put that hatch up on my back and carried it right out of there for $35. Your best bet would be to find a new deck without a spoiler (that foam thing ways a ton anyway).

[i2ice4m3]

I used bondo on my holes too, but i backed it with aluminum sheeting JBwelded to the underside of the trunklid. Works good for now... NE240sx, what happened to your "fix"?

[[Zero-S]]

If you want to lighten your hatch I'm almost positive underground (or one of our other sponsors) has a cf hatch. Match that up with a lexan rear windshield and you're good.

[Doomed2Walk]

Bondoing the holes are overrated. I use good ol masking tape ;[