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Title: Attaching OEM quarter panels?
Post by: lp670mike on April 06, 2014, 09:23:11 PM: Anyone know how they are attached at the factory? Are they bonded or held with fasteners? Or both maybe?

Thanks
Mike
Title: Re: Attaching OEM quarter panels?
Post by: Purple LP670 SV on April 06, 2014, 10:26:58 PM: From what I've been told they are bonded!!! I plan to make mine removable with rubber bushings or spacers! ;)
Title: Re: Attaching OEM quarter panels?
Post by: lp670mike on April 07, 2014, 05:16:43 AM: Hey thanks I was thinking along those lines to. Still undecided though.
Check your email I sent those pics last night. Let me know if they went through cause my phone kept giving me trouble with the emails.
Title: Re: Attaching OEM quarter panels?
Post by: Onewickedsvt on April 07, 2014, 08:03:28 AM: I would not make it removable.

Keep it bonded nice and strong. If you need to replace it, just chop and grind like a real car.

You don't want rattling and parts flapping, which they eventually will do.
Title: Re: Attaching OEM quarter panels?
Post by: SchulzeA on April 07, 2014, 09:20:13 AM: What happens when something fails and you can't reach it without removing a panel? Or just the fact that it would make your life a lot easier to remove the panel for a repair? Just a thought...
Title: Re: Attaching OEM quarter panels?
Post by: Onewickedsvt on April 07, 2014, 09:58:21 AM: There really should not be anything behind a quarter panel to reach or access.

Your suspension should not be in a quarter panel and your engine bay should be accessible from... The engine bay and not from a quarter panel.
Title: Re: Attaching OEM quarter panels?
Post by: Robert on April 07, 2014, 03:08:07 PM: http://www.bullstuff.com/lamborghini-parts-manual/murcielago-2008-murcielago-reventon-usa/821.06.00 (http://www.bullstuff.com/lamborghini-parts-manual/murcielago-2008-murcielago-reventon-usa/821.06.00)

http://www.bullstuff.com/lamborghini-parts-manual/murcielago-2008-murcielago-lp-640-coupe-usa/821.02.00 (http://www.bullstuff.com/lamborghini-parts-manual/murcielago-2008-murcielago-lp-640-coupe-usa/821.02.00)

I don't see any fasteners for the quarter panel attachment, it is probably bonded on. I know late model corvettes are fastened with screws.
Title: Re: Attaching OEM quarter panels?
Post by: BigPines on April 07, 2014, 03:53:24 PM: I have attached an image of the inside of an OEM quarter panel. Sorry it isn't the greatest pic. Looks like there are some attachment points (marked with blue dots) but they seem to be limited to holding the rocker scoop area in place. You can see what looks like glue along the main area of the panel.
Title: Re: Attaching OEM quarter panels?
Post by: RT on April 07, 2014, 05:12:05 PM: I agree most builders bond their body to the frame. I didn't. My body is made in multiple panels and bolted to the chassis.
I believe bonding will force the panels to flex with any chassis movement and could produce stress cracks in the panels. Bolting not only allows for removal and replacement but the bolting allows a place for minor "give" to reduce that possibility.
Others will disagree. To each his own.
Here is a link to my Youtube video on panel bolting:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QcN4bp24OjQ (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QcN4bp24OjQ)

RT
Title: Re: Attaching OEM quarter panels?
Post by: Tallon on April 07, 2014, 05:23:14 PM: It's not attaching to the chassis
Title: Re: Attaching OEM quarter panels?
Post by: RT on April 07, 2014, 05:32:03 PM: Quote from: Tallon on April 07, 2014, 05:23:14 PM
It's not attaching to the chassis

I'm sorry Tallon, but who was that reply directed to?
My chassis is my frame. It is constructed like a NASCAR chassis complete with structural cage.

RT
Title: Re: Attaching OEM quarter panels?
Post by: Purple LP670 SV on April 07, 2014, 05:46:53 PM: I plan on doing just like RT did! A lot more work, but worth it in the end!!!
Title: Re: Attaching OEM quarter panels?
Post by: Tallon on April 07, 2014, 06:47:49 PM: I meant the panel in question, it's attaching to the frame? :S
Our one piece bodies have it built as part of the body so might as well bond it that way.
Title: Re: Attaching OEM quarter panels?
Post by: Robert on April 07, 2014, 09:19:03 PM: All of the tube I bond to the body for mounting purposes, will be welded to a tap pad. A tap pad consists of 3 pieces of flat stock steel. I will make the top pad 1/4" thick with clearance holes drilled in them for the bolt to pass through. The bottom pad will be 1/2" thick with threaded / tapped holes, so the top pad will bolt to the bottom pad. Weld your tube or pipe to the top pad. Position your tap pads, and body mounting tubes, so you may unbolt and lift off the body vertically. Mounting your body like this, will allow the body to be lifted off the chassis, with out disturbing the bonding adhesive attaching the body. You may even want to put a 1/8" or 1/4" clearance drilled spacer in between the top pad, and threaded, tapped bottom pad. This will give you additional clearance from left to right, when you unbolt the body and remove spacer and lift off body.
Title: Re: Attaching OEM quarter panels?
Post by: Onewickedsvt on April 07, 2014, 09:43:25 PM: rt! you are a master! Amazing work!
Title: Re: Attaching OEM quarter panels?
Post by: lp670mike on April 09, 2014, 03:54:42 AM: Thanks for al the input guy! Still not sure what I am gonna do. But I still have time to figure it out anyway.