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DonnyRay
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That's the ones I was going to return. I realized the top bushings were the same 5/8" o.d as the bottom mount. I retrieved the mounts from the post office. I pressed the top bushing & the bottom mount into the polyurethane bushings. Everything's good now. I also apologized to Ron. I made another, " MISTOOK ! ". LOL !!
cooter
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Your welcome. This forum helped me build my car. Now I can hopefully pay it back. I like the 1st wheel myself.
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Indycars
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That old guy hanging from the mirror can't be that old, he doesn't have a second chin. In fact
he doesn't even have a chin at all!!!
Looks like you are planning to look thru the windshield, as a opposed to looking over the
windshield. My wife and I have been wearing googles for the last 3 years, so I'm thinking
about having my windshield shortened so that we look over it. Right now it's 19 inches high
and is tilled back at 15°. If I shorten it, I would cut it just above the the mirrors (not installed
yet in this photo) or about 7 inches above the windshield stanchions.
BTW, the more the windshield leans back, the harder it is to get in thru the door in a standard
size body. That's why I modified the stanchions from 30° to 15°. But with a shorter windshield,
the less the tilt make a difference.
he doesn't even have a chin at all!!!
Looks like you are planning to look thru the windshield, as a opposed to looking over the
windshield. My wife and I have been wearing googles for the last 3 years, so I'm thinking
about having my windshield shortened so that we look over it. Right now it's 19 inches high
and is tilled back at 15°. If I shorten it, I would cut it just above the the mirrors (not installed
yet in this photo) or about 7 inches above the windshield stanchions.
BTW, the more the windshield leans back, the harder it is to get in thru the door in a standard
size body. That's why I modified the stanchions from 30° to 15°. But with a shorter windshield,
the less the tilt make a difference.
DonnyRay
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The actual windshield is 16" high. My HARDTOP requires a 20" high windshield. My mock windshield is merely a reference for positioning my hardtop. I need to widen my hardtop ; in order to do that , I have to place the hardtop on the car. So .. the first thing i'll do is : widen the hardtop. The second thing i'll do is: chop the top by 4". I'll take some photos of my progress.
DonnyRay
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This is for you Brian. How to get a spirit cars hardtop to fit an RPM big boy body. Here we go ! There's an obvious seam that runs down the middle of the roof ( from front to back ). Mark a line down the middle of this seam. I used an aluminum yard stick to mark around the window opening. I cut around the window opening & temporarily removed it. Next I cut the line that runs down the roof from front to back. Now my roof is in 2 halves. I positioned the 2 halves on my big boy body. I clamped the 2 halves to the rear fiberglass lip. I then measured the gap between the 2 halves. Tomorrow i'll add some 1' x 3" pieces of wood to hold everything in place.
Brian Penrod
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