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A customer came in the shop yesterday with a late model Mustang complete with a body kit, big wheels, and Lambo-style doors to set up an apointment to have a video monitor installed. This is the second car here in town with Lambo doors, and it made me think "I could do this to all four doors on my Leggy". I don't know if I'll ever go that far, but I realized nobody has a flip flop trunk. So today I decided to make my trunk lid do a trick. It took me about three hours to fab up to it's current state. My welder's acting up on me so my welds look horrible, but I'll get 'em cleaned up and painted later. I'll have the pimpin-ist rust bucket in town now! Check out the pics, pages 5 and 6.

http://www.thawa.net/gallery/album58?page=5
Ya, thanks Hardy.

I believe you meant this: http://www.thawa.net/gallery/album58?page=5

I dunno what I think.

I think it's absurd.

But it's so funny! These types of "trends" or "fads" are 2 to 3 years old when they get to this part of the country. Like I said, there are two cars in town with Lambo doors-That's all I've ever seen in person. Both of those are fully done-up "show car" types. I did it to an "old" rusty car! And I'd be willing to bet that more of the locals will do this now. They'd end up doing it anyway, so why not be the first? Plus the fact that I did it completely from scratch, making my own pivot points; not by using pre-made hinges that look ghetto-rigged to work. I knew I'd catch some hell by doing this, but I just had to!





I am seriously thinking of doing my doors now, too.

It actually doesn't look that bad.

Now Lambo doors, that I think would be a bit much.....

Isn't your flip-flop trunk lid from the Ebay UniqueStylz or something?

Uh,......What? I used scrap steel from an old floor jack I had already plundered parts from to make the pivot points. I honestly don't know why anyone would have to buy anything from Ebay to do this.

Anyone want to see my creation that resulted from the original plundering of parts from the floor jack? It involves mounting a Subaru alternator and 120 volt motor on the floor jack assembly. Betcha never saw one of them before!

Sure, let's see it.

I'll take some pics tonight. It's not all THAT great, it's just funny that a buddy and I were just hanging out in the garage, and we figured how we could build a charging system out of spare parts laying around, .....then we built it! We usually design weird shit like this, but never actually build it.

Motorized jack pics and more!


http://www.thawa.net/gallery/album58?page=6

So.... does the jack actually do anything besides look cool of course? And the trunk is a little ricey for my tastes but good fabrication either way...

The jack is a plug in charger, right?

If you do the doors, you should do the rears in reverse - suicide style scissors like the Lamborghini Portofino.

Steve

Ya, the motor spins the alternator, but unfortunatly I don't get any output out of it. Initially I set it up spinning the alt backwards, but I rewired the motor the right way. Then I figured it wasn't spinning fast enuogh, so I rigged up a bigger pulley on the motor, then had to add an idler pulley to use a different belt. The idler was shot, disenegrated, and parts went flying Went back to original design, but tried an Xt alt that I know to work(first one was untested Xt6 alt). Still nothing, and I lost interest. That was about three weeks ago. Apearantly I don't know how to wire it.

It should work if you connect the alternator's ignition and sense terminals (white and yellow wires respectively on our cars) to the alternator's output terminal.



It'll only work if the battery has at least a little bit of charge left in it, though.

The Xt6 alt only has two wires, and I don't know what is what on that one. I tried hooking it up to both of them(one at a time). I'm sure I could find it if I search elsewhere, so I'm not expecting someone else to figure it out for me. Thanks though. it just isn't a priority right now. For what it's worth I did put a chevy alt on my Ford for the one wire hookup simplicity about seven years ago, still going strong.