Yes, the Delorean used torsion bars. I believe someone did replace their
air pistons with multiple pressurized struts. I guess the idea is to pick
the strut force so that the door weight is just compensated. However, since
the level arm changes as the door opens, this might be difficult to achieve
perfectly in practice. Torsion bars would avoid the changing level arm
problem but retro-fitting them to the Bricklin is probably impractical. The
air pistons have more failure points, but they do work and seem to be quite
reliable if properly maintained.
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-bricklin@autox.team.net [mailto:owner-bricklin@autox.team.net]
On Behalf Of me
Sent: Tuesday, February 08, 2005 4:36 PM
To: bricklin@autox.team.net
Subject: door system
Smokey, from what I have read, the delorean uses a torsion bar that is hard
for the delorean owners to get now. they are having problems with them
breaking. These torsion bars were also used on us fighter jet cockpits from
what i understand.
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