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Danny Da Silva
Tinkerer
Victoria
Soarer TT
Posts: 57
Reg: 04-2006
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Now Available Lambo door kits fitted for soarers!! kits will cost around 2000 fitted and supplied!! Order now as a group buy!! kits are also available for any car!! THESE KITS ARE ADR Approved as they are Australian Made Kits!!
Installations will be made in Bayswater Victoria @ Galaxy Customizing!! Home to the Spiderman VT
WWW.GalaxyCustomizing.com |
Sam Schreck
Goo Roo
ACT
vvt-i JZZ31
Posts: 1100
Reg: 07-2005
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VERY tempting. |
Danny Da Silva
Tinkerer
Victoria
Soarer TT
Posts: 58
Reg: 04-2006
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Product is Specificaly made for the model of your vehicle and will fit and hold the weight of the doors!! |
Lindsey Swan
TryHard
QLD
GTT-L
Posts: 202
Reg: 07-2005
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any pictures? |
Vinh Bui
Goo Roo
NSW
94 UZZ31 (V8) / 96 JZZ30 (TT)
Posts: 1485
Reg: 07-2005
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Danny Da Silva wrote on Friday, December 22, 2006 - 06:40 pm:Product is Specificaly made for the model of your vehicle and will fit and hold the weight of the doors!!
.. Yes but for how long? |
Danny Da Silva
Tinkerer
Victoria
Soarer TT
Posts: 59
Reg: 04-2006
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these kits aren't your cheap kits! if you like i can get you a kit for 800!! and they will not last long!! these have to make Australian Design Rules or else they will not be able to manufacture in australia! |
Jack Chiu
Tinkerer
NSW
'98 Soarer VVT-i Turbo, Manual
Posts: 80
Reg: 08-2005
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Hmmm... Excuse the sillyness of this question.
What are Lambo doors? |
Tref Abbott
Tinkerer
queensland
soarer 2.5 TT
Posts: 89
Reg: 10-2006
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Lambourghini (if that's the correct spelling) used these doors for their Countache (again, probably wrong spelling) cars as well as the Diablo etc, they used to be called 'Gullwing' when Mercedes used them back in the 50's (I think) but basically, they hinge upwards rather than sideways as per your typical car.
Maybe it's me but the Soarer is such a fantastic car, gorgeous looking after all these years and very well engineered- it just seems such a pointless exercise to take that design and play around with it for the sake of a bit of 'flash'-especially when, from the car on the move, it doesn't actually appear any different.
But again, it may be just me. I've got boring in my old age? (don't actually answer that one) |
Danny Da Silva
Tinkerer
Victoria
Soarer TT
Posts: 60
Reg: 04-2006
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Lamborghini doors are just adding characteristic and uniqueness to the car.. thats why people like myself are putting it on their soarer. i am building my soarer as a custom show car! and will be selling it once finished as i have no room for it and have to leave it at the factory everynight and day! once completed i will be advertising it here on soarercentral and ofcourse on carsales!! |
Steven Soknacki
Tinkerer
Ontario
Possibly a TT, but most likely an SC400 V8
Posts: 28
Reg: 07-2006
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Lamborghini doors were meant for Lamborghinis. Really not suitable to my tastes on a Soarer, but to each his own. |
David Vaughan
Goo Roo
ACT
V8 Ltd manual
Posts: 2764
Reg: 07-2005
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Lamborghini Countach had scissor doors which are different from the gull wing doors on the 1950s Mercedes 300SL.
Conventional doors are hinged on a vertical axis at the front (or on old cars or the MX-8, the rear) and swing in a horizontal arc in the ground plane.
Scissor doors are hinged on a horizontal axis at the front and swing vertically, with the rear of the door rising in an arc toward the front of the car.
Gull wing doors are hinged horizontally along the axis of the roof line and thus swing about the car's longitudinal axis, rising in an arc toward the centreline of the car and presumably looking vaguely like a gull when seen from the front or rear with both doors open.
A problem with both scissor and gull wing designs is getting out of the car in a rollover. In a standard car there should normally be one door clear.
Search on Google Images for Countach and 300SL |
Alan Chow
TryHard
Vic
GTT-L
Posts: 106
Reg: 12-2006
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Photos!!! |
Adam Barry
DieHard
WA
UZZ30
Posts: 612
Reg: 08-2005
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The problem with scissor doors and the Soarer is that the Soarer does not have slab doors. It just doesn't look good when you have non-slab doors swinging around like that. Too much bulk, and the window frame ends up sitting so high in the air with the door open, it's just ridiculous. |
Don Bagnall
Moderator
New Zealand
I have WAY less Soarers than Hayden :-(
Posts: 5179
Reg: 05-2005
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As Stephen has said (above), I prefer my Soarer/SC300/SC400 as the manufacturer intended them.
BUT, I totally respect others desire to modify their cars to be a "Statement".
If you like the idea of exclusivity.........then GO for the Lambo conversion!
"Vive la difference"
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Callum Finch
Goo Roo
WA
Soarer TT & Corolla
Posts: 2341
Reg: 09-2005
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Is it just me or does that site not work? =P |
Bill Bogiatzis
TryHard
NSW
TT
Posts: 280
Reg: 04-2006
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I guess it will be easier to get in and out of the car.
I hate it when passengers scrape the door on the side walk. And the Soarer doors don’t open much either. They are massive lumps of steel. Like a friggen airplane door (hehehe).
But I guess the size and shape of the doors are needed to suite the sleek, long shape of the car. |
Tim Appleton
TryHard
QLD
UZZ31
Posts: 482
Reg: 07-2005
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Hehe, some late model Lamborghinis are known for being kinda tricky to get into and out of, partly because the cars are low slung. But their doors are designed to fully open.
The problem with retro fitted Lambo doors is that on some cars the doors do not give as much of an opening, and the hinge can be quite heavy (can't vouch for this kit). But you avoid the problem of being stuck inside when there would normally be no room to open the door (the passenger doesn't scrape the door on the sidewalk, grrrr) and our door hinges already weigh 5kg each. |
Carl Johnson
TryHard
QLD
93 LTD 31 Manual V8
Posts: 259
Reg: 10-2005
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Its not just you Callum, site seemed to be a non event to me too |
Tref Abbott
Tinkerer
queensland
soarer 2.5 TT
Posts: 93
Reg: 10-2006
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Having attempted to get in and out of Lambo copies (some of them really excellent copies at that) a few years ago in the UK. I found that the doors were always at eye height when open-perfect for losing an eye if you (or a passenger) are having one of 'those' days. I also found the damn things never shut properly and, having heard the ramblings of a friend who almost went out of his mind trying to make 'em fit, I personally wouldn't buy them. But again, it's great to be different so all power to those that bite the bullet and install them! |
Matthew Sharpe
Goo Roo
North Island
JZZ31
Posts: 1936
Reg: 10-2005
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They are very rice. |
Don Bagnall
Moderator
New Zealand
I have WAY less Soarers than Hayden :-(
Posts: 5562
Reg: 05-2005
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Matthew Sharpe wrote on Wednesday, January 17, 2007 - 06:10 am:They are very rice.
They're a whole paddy! |
Mark Ribbans
TryHard
SA
UZZ-031 V8
Posts: 110
Reg: 07-2005
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C'mon where's the pics!
I have no intention of getting 'Lambo' doors on my Soarer but I'd love to see what they look like!! |
Kieran McIlwain
Tinkerer
Queensland
UZZ31 V8 Limited
Posts: 82
Reg: 08-2006
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Scissor-doors are attached at the ordinary point, and open upwards. Gull-wing doors are attached both at the ordinary point and also at the top of the A-Pillar. The Toyota Sera has a similar cult following as the Soarer, and it had Gullwings. Observe 
http://www.japanoid.com/img/japanoid_sera_cover_keicar.jpg |
Darryn Dewar
DieHard
Gisborne
UZZ30 Soarer
Posts: 534
Reg: 09-2005
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Kieran McIlwain wrote on Wednesday, January 17, 2007 - 03:48 pm:Gull-wing doors are attached both at the ordinary point and also at the top of the A-Pillar.
 The 300SL would argue that point.
A-Pillar hinged doors have seemed to take on the term Butterfly doors |
Avin Luther
Goo Roo
vic
Soarer uzz31 Limited
Posts: 1174
Reg: 07-2005
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why are suicide doors called suicide doors. Surely if you wanted to jump out of a moving car it would be easier with conventional doors! |
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