Don't make the same mistake I did!!!

[wallace18]

:( I mounted the roadster windshield as per manual instructions on page 451. After grinding the frame I was able to get a nice fit. Here is where I went wrong. I plan on switching from my coupe top to roadster mode once in a while. When I mounted the coupe top it was over an 1" behind my holes for the roadster windshield. I can fix it all with some epoxy. I just did not want some one else to have the same problem as I. The coupe top fit like a glove the first time. I am using the same holes for both tops so my roadster windshield will be back 1 " further now. I am very happy with its look. I may not go roadster but I want that option. :mad:

[Tom Veale]

Hi W, Re: using same holes for the Coupe and Roadster installs................

When Mike Everson did the work on my #007, he did exactly that. The windscreen and the hard top use the same "windshield" mounting holes. We use studs on the windscreen with wingnuts on the inside. On the coupe top we use short bolts from the bottom up into the frame of the hardtop.

TV

[wallace18]

10/4 Tom. My problem was I used the 7.5" measurement for the roadster windshiel and this was too far forward for my coupe top. I will fix the holes with epoxy. Live and learn.

[fastthings]

10/4 Tom. My problem was I used the 7.5" measurement for the roadster windshiel and this was too far forward for my coupe top. I will fix the holes with epoxy. Live and learn.

Hey guys,

I'm invisioning a 1/8 inch hole in the top of you car somewhere. I am afraid any epxoy you would use will cure/age at a different rate than the fiberglass. Sooner or later you will see the repair spots show threw in the right sun light, (shrinking back, we call it). You should go ahead and repair it with fiber glass resin. You can pull the fibers apart and kinda make a paste, then apply to the repair spots. Far less likely to shrink with the glass. I would use the epoxy for bonding pannels, and then cover any exposed epoxy spots with a kevlar fiber enlaced filler, or glass.

Gene

[wallace18]

10/4 thanks for the hint.