Lambo doors

dragon · Post by **dragon** » Mon Aug 15, 2005 7:29 pm

No they do wave in the wind, a small amount of this comes from a tiny amount of play in the kit bearing (which obviously turns into a bigger "wave" at the other end, but most of the waving in the wind comes from the fact that the 480 doors are double skinned, EXCEPT at the point where the hinges join on, where they are single skinned, so the metal skin itself is flexing slightly. We have done everything we can to eradicate this (even put a bracing plate on a test door) and now it moves a lot less, but they still wave in the wind a little.

Having said that, we have the wholly finished side waving in the breeze for several hours and nothing untoward happened. I'd just be a little wary about opening them in a gale without finding a sheltered place...

robkendall · Post by **robkendall** » Mon Aug 15, 2005 7:39 pm

cheers dude.
was slightly worried about the weight of our doors if they did that on an astra!
maybe get lee to make you some grp doors??
rgrds
rob

Jamo · Post by **Jamo** » Mon Aug 15, 2005 8:33 pm

robkendall wrote:cheers dude.
was slightly worried about the weight of our doors if they did that on an astra!
maybe get lee to make you some grp doors??
rgrds
rob

Those doors wont drop for toffee, the struts and shockers hold it up well to that end Dragon are you getting handles placed at the bottom of the door?

martinholmesuk · Post by **martinholmesuk** » Mon Aug 15, 2005 10:15 pm

my strut brace has ripped the metal inside my drivers door and I must say it's piss thin metal inside those door!

Murf · Post by **Murf** » Mon Aug 15, 2005 10:37 pm

my strut brace has ripped the metal inside my drivers door and I must say it's piss thin metal inside those door!

hmm, are you sure you fitted it in the right place? its supposed to go in the engine bay...........

MatBat · Post by **MatBat** » Mon Aug 15, 2005 10:38 pm

no-wonder his car is slow!

If the strut brace is in the doors Where teh f%ck is the engine!