:shock: Lambo Doors on a 3rd Gen Magna (2nd gen Diamante)

Just found this thread on a Diamante Forum.
http://www.diamanteowners.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=71890

Pictures from the above thread are attached below.
Wish they had put suicide doors on the back.

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I know there are lots of threads about what a Magna/Diamante would look like with Modded Doors (Suicide, Lambo/Scissor or Gull Wing). But I couldn't decide which one to post this in so I've started a new thread with links to the others.

Related Threads in this forum:
http://www.aussiemagna.com/forums/showthread.php?t=25101
http://www.aussiemagna.com/forums/showthread.php?t=20043
http://www.aussiemagna.com/forums/showthread.php?t=15588
http://www.aussiemagna.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12417
http://www.aussiemagna.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12732

doesnt cost much to do either...TGC are doing a GB on lambo door kits, will cost about US$700, so around AU$1000 plus postage...not bad if u can do it urself!

are they chrome kaotic rims?

But hrmm.. duno about lambo doors... it looks unique... but also looks like a transformer :\

If they lambo doors the rear would of looked real crazy..:P

Well, that looks positively aweful but I can appreciate the work into getting it to a nicely finished state. It's just a pity about the asthetics of the whole thing.

Screw the doors, talk to me about the lights! :cool:

i rekon it looks awsome.. but how do u get in the car? haha

Screw the doors, talk to me about the lights! :cool:
:stoopid:

If they lambo doors the rear would of looked real crazy..:P

Too hard to do, many people have thought about doing the idea but theres no room to do it. I'm sure there's a particular car with enough room to do the rears but I'm not sure if it's been done yet. Fronts are easy to do, get any old scissor door kit and have it fitted (wouldn't bother trying it yourself).

Ka-CHING!

Awesome... loks a bit funny due to the bonnet and rear doors being open also. WOuld love to see a pic of just the two front doors open.

And I'm lining up behind sideswipe and cthulu for set of those projectors!

/me smells a group buy coming on*

if you wanna see cool check out the jeddah boys cars, statesman internationals with customised bonnet/boot/doors..they're all crazy. stupid looking, but crazy nonetheless.

Screw the doors, talk to me about the lights! :cool:


as one of the guys in the diamante forum pointed out ... they are bmw e39 (ie old 5 series) headlights

it looks like the front quarter panel was remoulded to fit the indicators

I think I still like the retrofitting of the Audi TT projectors into the Magna headlamp assembly....

as one of the guys in the diamante forum pointed out ... they are bmw e39 (ie old 5 series) headlights
I wonder how hard they'd be to get ADR compliant :think: where's heathyoung when you need him?

as one of the guys in the diamante forum pointed out ... they are bmw e39 (ie old 5 series) headlights

it looks like the front quarter panel was remoulded to fit the indicators


OMFG!! I want those lights?!!!!!!! are they really bm lights? doesnt really seem that remoulded.....

HEATH!!! WHERE ARE YOU!!??!?

Here I am guys... I also spotted these as E39's.

Yes, they will fit, but need the quarter panel and front bumper remoulded, along with the grille and a bit of metalwork removed from the engine bay. - they are very tight, and the mountings have to be prefabricated. They are also mounted at an angle which is not ideal, so they do tend to run out of adjustment.

Also, don't even think of trying to change a bulb whilst the headlamps are installed in the car, you would probably have to remove the battery to change a bulb (if you could fit it in there - chances are that the battery is already in the boot).

These also don't look like true E39's - probably aftermarket depo ones, or cheaper.

ADR compliant... You would need headlamp washers at the least, you can get away from the autolevelling with some clever interpretation of the laws - ie.

1) You are required to have some form of levelling if the lamps shine above and below a certain angle under normal driving conditions. Must be adjustable from the drivers seat.

2) You are required to have autolevelling installed if you have xenon headlamps if the lamps shine above and below a certain angle under normal driving conditions. CANNOT be adjustable from the drivers seat.

Therefore, magnas (as they do not have headlamp angle adjustment from the drivers seat) stay in the required variety of angles, and so do not require autolevelling. (Otherwise all magnas would have to be recalled and fitted with headlamp levelling as they are not ADR compliant - like that is going to happen).

The xenon versions of these would require even more metal cut out as the ballast lives screwed onto the bottom of these. Hella Gen 3 ballasts too IIRC.

I looked into this as an alternative to retrofitting (as you get the good highbeams as well - those parabolic highbeams are crap) but with the amount of metal that needed to be reshaped/cut... I was very loathe to do this.

You don't realise how big the headlights are until you try to fit them... :(

Cheers
Heath Young

Well, that looks positively aweful but I can appreciate the work into getting it to a nicely finished state. It's just a pity about the asthetics of the whole thing.

bawhahahahahhaha :bowrofl:

Got it in one! lol

Too hard to do, many people have thought about doing the idea but theres no room to do it. I'm sure there's a particular car with enough room to do the rears but I'm not sure if it's been done yet. Fronts are easy to do, get any old scissor door kit and have it fitted (wouldn't bother trying it yourself).


Nah me either.. but it just looks a bit odd with rears still stock.. 4 lambos would look the bomb..:P

looks like lambo doors were the inn thing at whatever meet that picture is from. (almost every car in the pic has them)


I love the Blood Orange van though.. gimme that!

Nah me either.. but it just looks a bit odd with rears still stock.. 4 lambos would look the bomb..:P

Yah, that's why most people who put scissor doors on the front, usually do the rears in suicide-style.

if there going to put gull wings doors on a magna they need to the same but opposite i.e butterfly doors, then that my friend would look king

if there going to put gull wings doors on a magna they need to the same but opposite i.e butterfly doors, then that my friend would look king

Butterfly doors? :nuts:

Now thats just silly. How you going to get in and out without stepping on the door trim, and if your praked next to another car or any slighttly raised surface.....ahh I won't bother lol

i said it would look good, didn't say anything about practiblity hehehe

Too hard to do, many people have thought about doing the idea but theres no room to do it. I'm sure there's a particular car with enough room to do the rears but I'm not sure if it's been done yet. Fronts are easy to do, get any old scissor door kit and have it fitted (wouldn't bother trying it yourself).
Been done - not sure if I like it tho - would rather suicide doors on the rear.

They need to be suicide lambo doors... ie hinged at the rear of the door....

They need to be suicide lambo doors... ie hinged at the rear of the door....

ie "butterfly doors" like the dude said about 3-4 posts ago

Been done - not sure if I like it tho - would rather suicide doors on the rear.

yeah suicide on the rear...has anyone got the pic of that goldy colored caprice with the gullwing rear and scissor door fronts? its from arabia i think......its a good example of how things should be done.....that red car is yuck IMO

I say it look unique but not really meant for a four door car for such design.

gulwing wouldnt work unless you wanna re put in the pillars around your doors.

']yeah suicide on the rear...has anyone got the pic of that goldy colored caprice with the gullwing rear and scissor door fronts? its from arabia i think......its a good example of how things should be done.....that red car is yuck IMO
This one... ?

ie "butterfly doors" like the dude said about 3-4 posts ago

He said reverse gull wing doors as the magnas dont have window frames, as in door open down.

This one... ?

spot on thats the one....very nice looking car IMHO

i love the stato is that from aus looks like a very ghetto place the pic is takin in

i dont know if its from aus but i do know its from an arabic country

']i dont know if its from aus but i do know its from an arabic country

what i thought dubai maybe they import heaps of our cars

what i thought dubai maybe they import heaps of our cars
yeah yeah dubai aint that arabic?

Aparrently the headlights on that D'mante are from a bmw E39....
a few guys in the states install them, thet make/modify mounting brackets and move a few bits around so its a bit of work but far out they look sweet!

a bit pricey maybe.... http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/97-98-99-00-01-02-BMW-E39-5-SERIES-DUAL-HALO-HEADLIGHT_W0QQcmdZViewItemQQcategoryZ33710QQitemZ8 017117691QQrdZ1QQsspagenameZWD2V

so yeah all u 3rd gen modders might consider a jap ripoff bmw light upgrade??