Hearse - Limousine coversion

[Kevs Estate]

Unless you've got the experience and the tools to do the job. It looks like a major engineering headache, which once started may never get finished.
It's a unique car, which i think is best left as it is and enjoy what you've got.

[DaveNP]

Originally Posted by Michael 727

There is already a slight crack on the car.
So there's already evidence of flexing. The slight crack will almost certainly be a fatigue failure due to flexing (it's why a metal coathanger will break from being bent back and forth) welding it will just move the start point of the new crack as the weld will be a new point of weakness.

Putting in 3rd row doors with pilars behind them should give the car more support (structually).?
If you put in enough structure maybe, but you'll be removing the sill between the window and hatch, it may not look much but it's like a net where every strand contributes something. It would be possible to build in more strength and door spaces etc. but it's not simple.


There is a horizontal sqaure bar that go's below the glass panel for supporting the coffin bed (rollers). Coundn't relly get a photo of it tho.
Even that unimportant looking bar could be doing more than supporting the bed

Sorry be such a pessimist but as has already been suggested it can rapidly turn into a major engineering exercise from which you may never get a usable car, I don't know the regulations where you are but in the UK they've got quite strict on these sort of projects, but given that the conversion that's already been done is showing problems you can see why,- would you want that little crack getting a lot bigger while you're doing 60 on the motorway?

Aesthetically whichever way you do the extra doors it does still have the look of a hearse with an extra door awkwardly added. Thinking laterally, one of the reasons for bonding the windscreen into modern cars is the extra rigidity it gives to the bodyshell, your hearse with it's opening side windows has nothing to stiffen the sides, if anything replacing the side windows with a steel panel fully welded in with small round windows inset (round opening have no angular corners for stresses to concentrate at) would improve the structural integrity of the car, that would give it the look of a pimped party limo but that's a question of personal taste.

[Diesel-do-nicely]

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