Used to be Blue's Valiant

Carl · Post by **Carl** » Wed Sep 28, 16 6:38 pm

Ive not been on for a while so not kept up with your build

shame on me. I must say how impressed I am with the quality of work youve done and how far youve got since I last looked.

Blue · Post by **Blue** » Thu Oct 20, 16 6:29 pm

After some head scratching and procrastination, on with the doors. First job is to strengthen the hinge area to cut down on wobble but not add too much weight. I cut some 1.5mm ally sheet to back the front of the door and that will be glued in with tiger seal.

lough3969 · Post by **lough3969** » Thu Oct 20, 16 9:06 pm

Ooooh, more holes... noice! :violent3:

Blue · Post by **Blue** » Mon Oct 24, 16 6:51 pm

After a few hours fettling I'm close to a good fit, the alignment is about right. Dale leaves the doors slightly oversized so you can trim for a good fit, I've done around the window frame and the bottom edge, leaving the front and back edges for the moment, I'll sort those later. I want the doors to be lift off so I need to modify the hinges, think that needs to be the next job.

Stu · Post by **Stu** » Mon Oct 24, 16 8:06 pm

Looking great, as ever, but I'm intrigued as to why you want lift off doors?

68Roadrunner · Post by **68Roadrunner** » Mon Oct 24, 16 8:55 pm

Looking good blue, would guess that's a ton of work to even fit, strengthen, then modify the door/hinges. Same question why lift off.

richard

Dave81 · Post by **Dave81** » Mon Oct 24, 16 9:01 pm

Great looking work!

ScottyDave · Post by **ScottyDave** » Mon Oct 24, 16 10:17 pm

68Roadrunner wrote:Same question why lift off. richard

Yep that's puzzling me as well

Cannonball · Post by **Cannonball** » Mon Oct 24, 16 10:59 pm

ScottyDave wrote:
68Roadrunner wrote:Same question why lift off. richard
Yep that's puzzling me as well

This i assume is a street strip car, so having lift off doors makes for gaining access easier, pushing easier all sorts of reasons,

Pete · Post by **Pete** » Mon Oct 24, 16 11:18 pm

Lift off doors are a great idea, especially if you are working on the car in cramped conditions, but it needs more "engineering".

Blue · Post by **Blue** » Tue Oct 25, 16 6:07 am

Yep what they said. Just makes life easier when working on the car especially when you have a roll cage. Bit of work to do initially but worth it in the long run, I did the Dart the same way.

Jeff · Post by **Jeff** » Tue Oct 25, 16 1:45 pm

Looking so good Blue! You must be itching to get it out about.

Blue · Post by **Blue** » Wed Oct 26, 16 5:27 pm

So, a bit of hinge action then. I did think of making new hinges from scratch but a quick calculation of time spent x weight saved = work with what you've got. This is the massaged bottom hinge, once I've done something similar with the top one I'll just have to pull the pin and the door will lift off.

GJUK · Post by **GJUK** » Wed Oct 26, 16 7:29 pm

Impressive.

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