Improving rear clam opening gap.

[key750]

Hello guys.
I come from four years Noble GTO owning and now rear clam opening seems so small......
No way to improve opening angle without tyre touch?
Thank you! Kind regards.
Alberto.

[Steve_D]

You would need to cut away some bodywork or design a new hinge arrangement.

Steve

[ROWDYRENAULT]

I disagree Steve and I don't often find much that he post that I disagree with. I have changed to a strut that is 19 inches long at full open, left the mount on the frame as is and moved the mounting hole on the body forward and down the clam now opens at least 80 degrees with no tire rub. The new mounting hole is 2 inches from the bottom of the mounting section and 1 and 3/8 from the front edge. Easier yet take a 19 inch piece of whatever is handy put one end at the mounting point on the frame and move the clam more and more open until it looks just short of vertical mark the panel where the other end of the 19 piece hits drill it and you have a much more easily worked on car. Lee

[Steve_D]

Hi Lee
The OP makes the point about the bottom edge of the clip hitting the back face of the tyre.
My clip struts are set in a position where the fully open clip just stops short of touching the tyre. I suspect that is where your repositioned struts are now placing your clip.

Steve

[deadscoob]

So back to the question - yes you can make it open more than standard as Steve and Lee have done, however if you want it to open even further, you'll need to do as Steve says and trim the bodywork.

If it's standard, remove the struts and open up as far as it'll go, then you'll be able to see if that gives enough room without body trimming - then perhaps follow Lees advice.

[key750]

Thankyou friends!!

IF someone have pics about this solutions.... would be highly appreciated!

Have a nice week end. Alberto.

[Steve_D]

deadscoob said:

So back to the question - yes you can make it open more than standard as Steve and Lee have done, however if you want it to open even further, you'll need to do as Steve says and trim the bodywork.

If it's standard, remove the struts and open up as far as it'll go, then you'll be able to see if that gives enough room without body trimming - then perhaps follow Lees advice.

Even if this is not enough I suspect trimming 15mm of the glass fibre where it touches the wheel will make a significant difference to the opening angle. You also need to make sure other parts of the body are not going to touch the chassis around the hinge area.

Steve

[V8Dom]

didnt one of the American Ultimas have a boot type hinge that lifted the clam and took it back so to clear the diffuser?

[UltimaCH]

Chris Julian (CJulian on PH) if I'm not mistaken had the solution. Could be a video of the thing hidden away on YT somewhere...

Found something: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c50eDX3X8FM

Also found something on PH, but certain photos have been removed. There are a couple of the modified front clip: http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?t=581...

And a whole lot of GTR photos: http://s404.photobucket.com/user/Chris_Julian/libr...

Edited by UltimaCH on Sunday 24th January 13:04

[Pedders]

Wow - there are some really interesting Ultima photos in that Photo bucket account.

[V8Dom]

UltimaCH said:

Chris Julian (CJulian on PH) if I'm not mistaken had the solution. Could be a video of the thing hidden away on YT somewhere...

Found something: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c50eDX3X8FM

Also found something on PH, but certain photos have been removed. There are a couple of the modified front clip: http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?t=581...

And a whole lot of GTR photos: http://s404.photobucket.com/user/Chris_Julian/libr...

Edited by UltimaCH on Sunday 24th January 13:04

thats the one

[V8Dom]

http://s404.photobucket.com/user/Chris_Julian/medi...