What type of metal (thickness, alloy etc.) can stop most bullets (9mm through mag)fired from an avg distance. ?
i’m stripping down my interior in my 72 buick skylark. for my own reasons i need to increase it’s strength and security.
my plan is to take off the door panels and reinforce them with some welded in metal plating. i’ll also eventually do the fenders quarter panel and trunk. i thought about draping kevlar but hear that it was more expensive.
i’ve also hear bulletproof glass is expensive so my alternative is to take off headliner and install slide down sheet or plate metal to protect most of the windows in unfortunately difficult situations.
later on i’ll want to re-inforce the cars body/frame to increase the strength. so it can take impacts without it bending the frame.
if there is a better way of going about doing this let me know. but i am doing it myself at home i have the tools i need tips on materials and methods.
What you are going to fight in all this is weight. Slapping alot of steel will quickly take your car over its gross weight allowance and destroy your transmission, brakes, frame, chassis and suspension. For a good example of this look at the up-armored HUMVEEs in IRAQ, slapped on a couple thousand pounds of steel and they all broke down in the first couple of months
To stop handguns of any type you are best off with ballistic fabrics like kevlar and spectrashield. They are somewhat expensive but you can buy rolls of them and fill inside the doors with panels and the roof and such, even under the floor for mines/grenades. This is how most all armored vehicles are done. It keeps the weight down so you don’t have to beef everything else in the car up
Might also consider run-flat tires, would make getaway much better
As far as how much steel to stop a handgun bullet, takes about 0.75 inches of high-hard steel to certainly stop a big solid core round. Steel is 6g/cc so a sheet big enough to cover your side doors (like 6 ft by 3 ft x 0.75″ thick) would weigh 450 lbs, so imagine bolting 3 or 4 of these on, your car will groan under the weight.
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