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Old Sep 16, 2005 | 11:28 AM
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Question Fuel Door!?!?

Anybody know of a kit to put a smooth fuel door on and install a switch to pop it open? I could probably yank the opener off a car in the salvage yard, but I have no idea of where to get the fuel door.
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Old Sep 16, 2005 | 03:05 PM
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Somebody siphoning your gas?
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Old Sep 16, 2005 | 03:20 PM
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No, I just want the fender to be smooth. It'll look better IMO.
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Old Sep 18, 2005 | 07:10 AM
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Nobody's done this? I don't want billet on it either. It looks like blemish on a good paint job to me.
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Old Sep 18, 2005 | 09:06 AM
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If you find one billet, just paint it. Waste of the extra money you'll probably spend for it being billet, but it's something.
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Old Sep 18, 2005 | 09:56 AM
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I thought about that. I've also thought about trying to grind and blend a stock one.
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Old Sep 18, 2005 | 11:38 AM
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That'd be cool too, but that might be a little hard to open unless you get one of those latches for panels where you push the door in a little, and then it releases the door... I don't know the name of it and I can't think of what the "latch" is called so hope that makes sense...
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Old Sep 18, 2005 | 01:10 PM
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I wanted to get a switch to open it from the inside of the car. I figure with so many cars having electric openers, I should be able to find one that would be easy to modify for my car. Mounting it would be the only issue. I haven't started looking though, because I'm hoping someone knows of a kit.
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look @ jcwhitney, that have all kinds of stupid crap like that
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Old Sep 18, 2005 | 04:28 PM
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i'm sure someone makes a fiberglass one, or you could find one off a corvette and wire it up.
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Old Sep 18, 2005 | 04:28 PM
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lol just grind that thumbhold thing down, i goin to do that when i get paint money to do that and get rid of the antena thing, it just ruins the flow of the cars booty!
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Old Sep 19, 2005 | 10:10 AM
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lol just grind that thumbhold thing down, i goin to do that when i get paint money to do that and get rid of the antena thing, it just ruins the flow of the cars booty!
Couldn't agree more!
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lol any other ideas?
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