| serves as a fulcrum to flex as many have already said including yourself. Remember your post about the door scrubbing when jacked up? That is chassis flex in action. The door design will absorb energy in a crash and minor flexing on the road or jack stands. Only a few microns of flex. If there were no flex effect on the door hinge and latch then there would be no change on the road or jack stands. Go lookup the torque values for the door hinge and door pin?
There's more to this than just having door latches to keep the door in place. Nixit's ghetto test should work, if you have access to some laser pointers that would also suffice. Find some race car sites where you can chat with engineers, mechanics, etc..... they will have the answers just as Nissan would, assuming you could get in touch with an engineer.
I haven't found anywhere in the world where I want to be all the time. The best part of my life is lived while moving. I look forward to going zooooooooommmmmmmmmmm! "They say the only cure for fear is...... too chop off the head" Sean Connery "Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the
States, unless you count the increasing popularity of
the nine-millimeter bullet." |
