[mikeinco66]

Im looking around to see if there's a kit around to make the rear doors into suicide doors...a la the Lincoln Continental...if anybody has any info let me know...

Thanks...

 

[eviljack]

There is no scion specific kit. Basically your gonna have to get a generic suicide door kit and have a body shop do the work. I have been tempted to do this but the expense and permanet nature of the mod keeps me from doing it.

 

[mikeinco66]

thanks for the info...i know it'll be expensive due to moving the location of the hinges and door latches...i just think it would be AWESOME to have on my xB

 

[eviljack]

Oh it will definatly be awsome. Just I don't plan on doing anything perment on my car right now. Everything so far will either look factory when if I sell or removable.

 

[mikeinco66]

i plan on keeping my xB for a long, long time...but i don't have the funds to do that right now...just want to get a feel for cost and time..

 

[eviljack]

Shame you don't live in PA. I know a guy thats doing some killer work for me and could definatly do it. He is gettting ready to work on a custom hood for me. Its gonna be so freakin awsome.

 

[mikeinco66]

Are you sure its a shame? lol i've never heard alot of good things about PA...but yeah it'd def. be cool to glomb on and see what he can do...

 

[xseveredveganx]

GT Factory makes a 180degree hinge kit. When I worked at a shop we installed it on an 03 Denali. The kit is okay. The thing is when suiciding the rear doors is that there's not really enough spacing for the hinges to be stable and strong. OEM door hinges are spaced a ways apart, thus making them stable.
I'm not saying it can't be done, because it already has been on an 08 xB...

 

[mikeinco66]

that is SICK...

 

[Guest]

Hey Evil or someone,

How much did you get quoted for to do the doors?

Anyone know for sure how unstable it makes your doors? I would LOVE to do this but I want to keep my car pratical functional.

 

[eviljack]

Never got a quote as I don't really plan to do it. I will ask my guy what he could do it for just to get a figure.

 

[jrl91789]

Awesome! Could you make it flap?

 

[Guest]

Never got a quote as I don't really plan to do it. I will ask my guy what he could do it for just to get a figure.

Thanks! Just a close quote! would do.

 

[TartanJack]

Awesome! Could you make it flap?

That would need a different type of hinge and and a servo/piston set up to control the movement.
(If you are being serious and not sarcastic . . . )

 

[No Limitz Ind]

whos xB is that? I have not seen that one at all.

 

[547japhill]

that is SICK...

YEAH I JUST THREW UP!

 

[eviljack]

The only thing I don't car for in the photo of it being shown is that he has it sitting on the factory Jack. That just looks so freakin cheap. If your gonna do all that work buy a custom looking jack or use the wheel stands that NoLiimitz sells.

 

[xseveredveganx]

whos xB is that? I have not seen that one at all.

It's the Team Echo xB. Whatever that means. Link: http://www.scionlife.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=225285