My Doors Piss Me Off.

[galacticmonkey]

I decided it was time. I used the Spectrum Spray on my doors, but I couldnt get it thick enough, so it didnt work worth a shit. Worked great in the back where I put it on really thick, though.

The rattling was driving me mad, so I broke down and bought 60 sq ft of Damplifier. My doors flexed so bad, something needed to be done. I was getting a pretty nasty crack in the passanger door, and I found one in the driver door as well. People said the latch was the only thing holding the door on, and they were right. A crack began around the latch, which I have never seen before. Eventually if it grew enough, It would probably just break off, seperating the latch assembly from the door.

There was a crack growing on the passanger door, and Scottie Johnson told me that drilling a hole at the end of it would stop it from spreading. I took the leap of faith and drilled a hole through my door pannel. It worked though, as it hasnt spread at all lately. Now I gotta find a way to fix it.

These are the problems for now though, and things are about to get way worse. I was having problems with Paypal tonight, but Im going to try again tomorrow. What I was trying to pay for was 16 Powermaster 16v Batteries. My voltage drops so bad that amps shut off.... This should stop that. Its going to be flat out nasty loud with some high voltage. Im thinking Ill feed them 18.0-18.5v daily, and see how it works. I cant wait to hear this thing with that power.

Anyways, heres some pics of the deadener and damage.

Before

After

Stupid latch crack

Passanger door crack

My window flexes in my door and it messes up my stickers.

FTW

[PaulO2288]

WOW

[loganberry]

so powerfull its insane

[pstone11]

Ouch... I hope that stop drill holds up for a bit. If you stop drill the ends of the cracks, then go back and run a weld bead over the crack, it should last a bit longer. Those doors are going to need some serious reinforcement...soon....

[roscoe1129]

What caused all that damage?

[galacticmonkey]

What caused all that damage?

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[PaulO2288]

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LOL, 24 15"s in a bandpass wall is just crazy, I couldent even imagine how loud that is. You are going to be needing to reinforceing a lot more than that I forsee lol. But I sure do love it.

[01xtreme]

LOL, 24 15"s in a bandpass wall is just crazy, I couldent even imagine how loud that is. You are going to be needing to reinforceing a lot more than that I forsee lol. But I sure do love it.

I dont see any way of reinforcing the doors more without losing the ability to roll down the windows. Kinda hard to build the doors strong enough to keep all that air movement in the van.

[audioaddiction863]

Maybe try and reskin the doors with a thicker skin or reinforce a new skin with somthing like 1/4 in square tubing then put it on the door.

[Stephen]

when do you expect the batteries in? would you be down to give me a demo?