Has anyone done any door mods to their xB? Any pics? Does anyone know if there is a kit out to do door mods or does one have to be custom made?

 

A local shop here is Annapolis is installing a set this week :D . I will snap some pics and post them asap.

 

On the xA or xB? Thanks for the 411!

 

 

Does anyone know if that is a kit or was it custom done?

 

looks good, but how wide do they open?

 

All lambo doors open out and up ... here is a pic from another car from the side ... you can see what I am talking about

 

it is a kit, he had it custom made though... search for lambo door and it'll pull up a few threads on this. BlueNRG is his nick.

 

im a fan of the lambo doors but not on every car :?

i want to see suicide door on an xB

 

I remember the lambo scion, not much room for a big guy like me. And I wasn't too impressed on how the fender had to be flared like that.

 

lambo-style hinges are pretty common nowadays. Get suicides. They've been out for 50 years, and still haven't fully caught on.

Andrew

 

That's a Vertical Door prototype.

 

They have caught on .. its just alot harder to do becasue you have to move everything. Hings have to go to the other side and the door lock has to go to the other side and also alot of doors CANT open suicide because of the way the body is desgined ... I think the rear doors suicide and the front lambo would be pimp ...

 

No they haven't caught on. Go to Nopi Nationals and compare people with lambo-style hinges to those with suicides. About 30 to 1 i'm guessing.

Andrew

 

my impression of the vertical door system is that it is crap. it never always room for people to enter. sure it is bolt on, but you end up with no room.

 

door should open like this. the vertical door kit doesn't

 

now thats high

 

I like! Where can I get a kit like that? And in that photo, check out all those lambo doors up.

 

My point exactly. They're played out now.

Andrew

 

How about something completely new? Instead of trying to make our boxes work like an Italian sports car, why not examine the problem with the current doors and then make the doors better?

The biggest problem with the current doors is that they swing outward and can hit other cars.

One solution to this is to make the doors pop out and slide back, like the sliding doors on a minivan. The tracks would be a challenge, as there isn't much car behind the rear doors. Some sort of telescoping track is indicated.

Another, more radical, approach is to have the doors pop out and slide or pivot straight upward on tracks or struts, remaining upright the whole time. This would be very cool and, for sponsored show cars, would put the sponsor's advertisment well above head level for all the crowd to see!

I think that either of these approaches would work well if the front and rear doors were joined as a unit. The second one sounds the more interesting of the two, and would work a heck of a lot better than lambo doors!

George