Actually there is about 45 degrees of twist in the bar with the door wide open. Still a pretty good pent up hunk of energy. Generally though a bar will fail with the door shut since it's more twisted at that point. I have seen a bar fail with the door 1/2 open, but it was a welded-up bar. Dave S --- In dmcnews@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "cbl1739" <cbl302@...> wrote: > > --- In dmcnews@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Ryan Wright" <ryanpwright@> wrote: > > > > > If so, why all this talk about welding them? Just buy one. I'm not > > sure I'd want to be around an open DeLorean door with a welded torsion > > bar. > > > > -Ryan > > > Actually Ryan,when the door is open,the torsion bar is NOT under > load,so the chances of getting zinged by a piece of the torsion bar is > rather slim,that is why you always hear of torsion bars snapping with To address comments privately to the moderating team, please address: moderators@xxxxxxxxxxx For more info on the list, tech articles, cars for sale see www.dmcnews.com To search the archives or view files, log in at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dmcnews Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dmcnews/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dmcnews/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:dmcnews-digest@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx mailto:dmcnews-fullfeatured@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: dmcnews-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/