jayhawkblk

I hated the cheap door lock pins so I had some made out of hardened titanium what do you guys think?

shooter

You made them??? And how much for a set for my E63?

guysandiego

do you really need hardened Ti ?? regular Ti was not strong enough -

guysandiego

joking aside -- good job changing the fugly OEMs

jayhawkblk

Well I can start making them but I would suggest not using titanium. It is very expensive. Aluminum or stainless would work just fine and be a lot cheaper

jayhawkblk

Harding them gave them the dark look. Lol titanium was a bit over the top any way.

b16gsr

i want to replace mine asap, how much? i am tired of them breaking.

400RWHP

And while we're at it for ideas, maybe make it a smooth shaft without that shoulder on it so people with good old coat hangers can't break in by lifting the door pins. How much for a set?

sknight

I can guarantee they aren't made here. If he gets enough people looking for them, then he'll put the order through to the Chinese supplier, then they will be a reality.

jayhawkblk

Care to put your money where your mouth is. There is no china junk here. Made right here in Palm Desert CA.

jayhawkblk

If you guys really want sets of these pm me for prices and details.

220S

+1 on all smooth barrels. Not for security but for looks. Anyway who actually unlocks their doors by puling on the pins themselves anymore? The cars have automatic central locking.....

p.s., can somebody with a "coat hanger" even open the door via the door pin with auto central locking?

BenzoDoc

I got sick of people in the back seats pulling up on the golf tees to exit, and ripping them out of the door. So I bought a second set of golf tees, dremeled off the tops so that they'd sit semi-flush with the door when "locked" [so back seat passengers can push the pins down to lock the door].

All it took was a bit of putty and some paint and I love them now.

I hope my car doesn't catch on fire though, the back seat passengers will be SOL. Might buy another set that allows rear passengers to exit without requiring me to let them exit.

OP: Those are sick.

ES EF ED

looking good! im also bothered that the door pins in our cars are the same exact ones that were in my 1980 300SD .

taurran

Those definitely look good for a few horsepower.

JayhawkPharmD

Looks fantastic, classy as well.

tbal

Looks good! How do they look when doors are locked?

pearlpower

Much nicer, now sell the stock ones on the Pinto forum to recoup some of the costs.

03'55AMG

+1, hows it look locked?

tgoss

Those look ridiculously sick my friend

sknight

Who's your titanium supplier and where is their titanium sourced from?

06E55

It isn't that hard to buy titanium... It's not like it's uranium or something... Google Advent Research Materials... Or even onlinemetals.com

sknight

No, that's not what I'm talking about. Yes, someone can buy Ti from any supplier. However, Ti is in short supply in the states, apportioned for defense usage. The majority of Ti in the world for consumers comes from China, even if someone can just go down and get some (which is extremely hard to work on top of that) from a local supplier. And in that case, it's quite easy to just simply go to the place where it's coming from, put in an order with them, and then it's shipped across the world to here. Very easy, and much cheaper. I've seen it a ton of times before.

06E55

So why even ask who his supplier is? If you acknowledge someone can purchase it from a supplier, then why is it so unimaginable that he purchased his titanium from a source like this? Not to mention, you contradict yourself in this paragraph...

Titanium is also used in the medical industry...

NitrogenBalance

Before and after dyno