anybody ever cut open the doors on a 78-86 el camino?

[jeffdeoranut]

wanting to open doors on a 5th gen elky but seems as if it will be challenging...any insight appreciated.

[Mark]

Which kit (Monogram or MPC)?  The thing to do first is to see where the interior floor is, relative to the bottom of the door opening.  I'd bet the Monogram kit is closer to correct in that respect.

The old annual kits sometimes have shallow interiors, and sometimes even leave a gap between the bottom of the interior floor and the top of the chassis.  I built an AMT Corvair last year, the gap was incredible (I didn't open the doors up on that one, but did "gut" the interior and stood the side panels up straight to eliminate the "draft" designed into the interior bucket, to simplify tooling).

If the interior floor is way higher than the bottom of the door opening, in many cases it won't look right.  I'd figure that out before going forward.

Edited July 12, 2017 by Mark
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[jeffdeoranut]

Which kit (Monogram or MPC)?  The thing to do first is to see where the interior floor is, relative to the bottom of the door opening.  I'd bet the Monogram kit is closer to correct in that respect.

The old annual kits sometimes have shallow interiors, and sometimes even leave a gap between the bottom of the interior floor and the top of the chassis.  I built an AMT Corvair last year, the gap was incredible (I didn't open the doors up on that one, but did "gut" the interior and stood the side panels up straight to eliminate the "draft" designed into the interior bucket, to simplify tooling).

If the interior floor is way higher than the bottom of the door opening, in many cases it won't look right.  I'd figure that out before going forward.

its the revell lowrider kit...floor pan will b ok I think.  in order to open the doors I will have to put a brass strip at the bottoim of body as its 1/16 with door cut out.  im gonna try  to stretch body and make it a 4 seater andto make homicide sliding doors and will probably rescribe new door lines leaving body material below the a pillar and below the side window trim. found a good how to on youtube re the sliding doors