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update on my 350 .Studs done on the manifold .Exhaust repaired .And now back on .Sounds a lot better.Got the car off its axle stands last night..Now for the next problem .Whilst on the stands I noticed that the drivers door would not close.Car on the ground .Still not closieing .Bummer .latch screws will not budge .My mate says let it settle.but I am not so sure .forgot to say had both outriggers replaced.Any help ....Thanks Mike
This isn't exactly helpful, but the leading edge of my passenger door stared rubbing on the trailing edge of the front fender after I had the car up on ramps. I just gave the door a push in and it went back to clearing the fender. The door feels solid on the hinges but I suppose something in the hinges (or worse) is going bad. Grady
Hi Zig door was fine .had to have both doors open to gain access to seat belt mounts etc . I will get some one to have a look hopefully over the weekend .Strange that the out riggers where rotton and the doors fitted .Put strength back in new out riggers .i don't get how the door will not fit must be flexin the chassis ..Mike
Hi Mike
This is quoted from a very knowledgable source...
"The sill tubes are welded to two sill plates: the forward one supports the bottom end of the door ‘A’ pillar tube (inside the car). The door hinge is bolted through the bodyshell to this tube, so if the lower end lacks support due to corrosion in the sill, the door hinge can flex the shell and crack the glassfibre. There may also be some reduction in the efficiency of the side-impact protection."
Might be something in it?
This is quoted from a very knowledgable source...
"The sill tubes are welded to two sill plates: the forward one supports the bottom end of the door ‘A’ pillar tube (inside the car). The door hinge is bolted through the bodyshell to this tube, so if the lower end lacks support due to corrosion in the sill, the door hinge can flex the shell and crack the glassfibre. There may also be some reduction in the efficiency of the side-impact protection."
Might be something in it?
In case you missed it:
adam quantrill said:
Grease in the door hinge nipple.
That means, get the grease gun out, and it will take quite a it if it hasn't been done it a while. The grease inside the hinge will lift the door up slightly, back to where it should be to hit the striker plate.this is very interesting to me as i had assumed the wedges would have doors hung the same way as on the s series cars, am very glad to hear they are not. when i got my 290s the doors were broken right off because the hinges are just bonded into the grp and don't go through the grp to steel chassis as described above. i fabricated special extra strong hinge brackets to bolt to the shell with top hats behind rather than try to bodge the original crap hinges back into the shell! so at least your doors haven't come right off pulling away some of the bodyshell with them!
drak ula said:
this is very interesting to me as i had assumed the wedges would have doors hung the same way as on the s series cars, am very glad to hear they are not. when i got my 290s the doors were broken right off because the hinges are just bonded into the grp and don't go through the grp to steel chassis as described above. i fabricated special extra strong hinge brackets to bolt to the shell with top hats behind rather than try to bodge the original crap hinges back into the shell! so at least your doors haven't come right off pulling away some of the bodyshell with them!
The wedges was one of the best built TVR's ESP the SE's they had a better powder coating on the chassis, plus better wheels and breaks then even the 5.0 Griff's, if anything they was a bit over built with very thick GRP. labor was a lot cheaper and budgets was bigger. they was very high tech for there day. with electric windows and door mirrors etc. The NCK engines had a lot more tuning than the later V8 cars, 450 SEAC would be over 300 BHP, even a 420SE after 30 years has 290 BHP. your be lucky to get 230 from the 400 Grims. and maybe 300 from a 5.0They maybe mainly made from the parts bin but they used parts from the best cars available, not the cheapest.
mrzigazaga said:
Hi Mike
This is quoted from a very knowledgable source...
"The sill tubes are welded to two sill plates: the forward one supports the bottom end of the door ‘A’ pillar tube (inside the car). The door hinge is bolted through the bodyshell to this tube, so if the lower end lacks support due to corrosion in the sill, the door hinge can flex the shell and crack the glassfibre. There may also be some reduction in the efficiency of the side-impact protection."
Might be something in it?
Nah, that bloke doesn't know what he's talking about This is quoted from a very knowledgable source...
"The sill tubes are welded to two sill plates: the forward one supports the bottom end of the door ‘A’ pillar tube (inside the car). The door hinge is bolted through the bodyshell to this tube, so if the lower end lacks support due to corrosion in the sill, the door hinge can flex the shell and crack the glassfibre. There may also be some reduction in the efficiency of the side-impact protection."
Might be something in it?
TVRleigh_BBWR said:
They maybe mainly made from the parts bin but they used parts from the best cars available, not the cheapest.
Well, leaving out the Cortina, the TR7 and the Hillman Imp 
In percentage terms I think TVR's contribution is quite high... and you could argue that just as much parts-sharing went on between the major British players anyway. It was often only politics that prevented some cars being better, e.g the Stag would have a much better reputation if they'd used the Rover V8 instead of the Triumph unit.
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