mechanics behind scissors doors modification?
mechanics behind scissors doors modification?
i dont want to do this, i was just wondering what exactly is involved with this? it has always boggled my mind. like the door comes straight out from the chassis like 3 inches, then rotates upward? how is this?
it allows you to open your doors when your car is very low. the 240 is low enough, put new springs or coilovers on em and blam! you run the risk of hitting the curb. I've already hit my door on the curb before and my car's not even lowered! Worthy investment if your car is very low I'd say. I think if you go back to the Nov (or was it Oct?) issue of Options, they've got a walkthrough on their project scissor doors on an FD. Might want to have a look at that.
.........I would like to get the scissor door mod just so I could park ridiculously close to people and still get out of my car; leaving them to fume and fuss about how they can't get in their own car.
Yeah, scissor door mod on the car with a 13" crack in the windshield and dents/dings all over the body...........awesome.
Yeah, scissor door mod on the car with a 13" crack in the windshield and dents/dings all over the body...........awesome.
god, you guys have turned every body mod into "rice". i'm so sick of that word. can't someone just do something to their car that makes it look cool without it being rice. now i'm not a fan of body kits or giant wings on civics, i prefer the clean look. but come on, lamborghini style doors are pretty damn cool. especially the kind that can open scissors-like or like a normal door.
the term rice comes from 'rice burner' which would imply any japanese car, even a stock one. it is what domestic v8 guys called our cars to make fun of them. that is not, however, what it has come to mean.
the term rice comes from 'rice burner' which would imply any japanese car, even a stock one. it is what domestic v8 guys called our cars to make fun of them. that is not, however, what it has come to mean.
spitz7985 wrote:you, my friend, obviously know very little about high speed stability.
go look at some salt flats racers and come back later. most have very low wings because they create downforce with less drag than some aluminum monstrosity sticking up over the roof line. what's under the car is much more important on a top speed runner than the wing itself. they tend to use the aerodynamics of the car (ie. changing the body shape and creating air tunnels under the car) to create enough downforce without too much drag instead of dragging a big anchor through the air. plus, the whole point in your post is that it would actually SERVE A PURPOSE, which is why we call it rice on a FWD car that only sees the street and not rice on a JGTC car that sustains high speeds around a track where downforce is important.
IvoryJ30t wrote:you, my friend, are an idiot.
hey! thanks for the personal attack buddy!!!:D :thumbup
perhaps i need to clarify "giant wing"by giant wing, i was talking about an aluminum/aluminum style wing of any sort, giant compared to an OEM wing.
i am well aware of the ways to increase high speed stability.
Supafly wrote:plus, the whole point in your post is that it would actually SERVE A PURPOSE, which is why we call it rice on a FWD car that only sees the street and not rice on a JGTC car that sustains high speeds around a track where downforce is important.
true, although the 240sx is a rwd that could and would benefit from a wing at high speeds, however when anyone sees one, they immediatly think 'rice'.
spitz7985 wrote:true, although the 240sx is a rwd that could and would benefit from a wing at high speeds, however when anyone sees one, they immediatly think 'rice'.
why would the fact that a 240 is rear wheel drive have anything to do with the amount of downforce it needs?
hmm. why would a street driven 240 need the additional downforce that would be added from a home installed, 50 dollar aluminum bookshelf? i dont see many 240s spinning their rear tires on the highway, they seem to have enough load to keep it on the ground. i guess if you like understeering all over the place at high speeds it would be a good idea to put a big ghetto wing on your car. who needs traction on the front wheels anyway? its a rear wheel drive car right? you only need the drive wheels touching the pavment, duh.
oh yea, same thing for front wheel drive cars, they put the power out through the front wheels, so lets engineer thoes cars so that they have no downforce over the rear wheels, because oversteering at high speeds is awesome.
and i bet all thoes DIY spoiler installs spent a lot of time in the wind tunnel, testing different rake angles on the airfoil.
scissors doors became rice when some dude tried to get hinges from home depot to make his own. read up on aerodynamics by the way.
btw - when you put some ghetto wing on your car, and are on the highway, your car rides like there is a fat dude sitting on your trunk.
As far as weight is concerned, I don't think that it's too much more than stock. From what I remember while reading some import mag when they installed the conversion on an acura, it ended up only being the weight of the bracket (machined aluminun) plus the piston.
Crawling out of the sunroof is no good. I was thinking about making the trap door in the trunk so I could just climb back there and roll out through the bottom!!
Crawling out of the sunroof is no good. I was thinking about making the trap door in the trunk so I could just climb back there and roll out through the bottom!!