Door Hinges

[tcrist]

Thanks Carl,
The design is kind of what I thought it needs to be like to get the correct swing.
Now I just need to have someone let me borrow their Classic Roadster ones so I can make 3D cad drawings of it and then modify the drawings.

Thanks again, Terry

[Ron61]

Terry,

Emerson redesigned the door hinges and he got an extra 6" of leg room by cutting away the part of the sidewall that the hinge used to be behind and moving the cowl bar a little. His design works great and that extra leg room makes it much easier to avoid the hot pipes when getting out. I had talked to Bill about upgrading my doors before I sold my Cobra. He has done a lot of improvements on the cars he now builds.

Ron

[Ron61]

Terry,

What Bill did was redesign the door hinges and then he took out of the sidewall about 6" where the front part of the door covers and moved the cowl bar a little. That gave 6" more leg room to get in and out. It really works well and helps with avoiding the hot side pipes too. I was going to have him modify my doors but sold the Cobra first.

Ron

[jagrolet]

Terry

I have seen the part you are talking about drilled in every position but correct,causing lots of agony,pete had sent me a set of undrilled brackets,so i drilled mine on my lathe,bolting the bracket to the carrige,spotting the holes correctly.Bolt the bracket to a small .500 plate you can adapt to tool holder t-slot,tack a support across each uprite of bracket(so holes stay aligned)and that should do,just go slow.
I would weld up the holes on the ones you have,again,i think this was just innacurrate drilling on CRs part,i am sorry,i should of told you about this,i think it was a major problem with door alignment problems,also,in the space under the top of the front fender,some of this can be ground away without detection for added clearance.


Wally