thanks...
anyone know a good engineer in melbourne?
- Julian
CP wrote:
> well it was never actually finished..
>
> The car was an old 4 door 200b.... Cut the roof off to build a crazy burnout
> machine
> for the easter nats but lost interest and funds for the go part of it...
>
> We plan on doing another car soon (properly)...to register and have some fun
> in..
>
> I think you will need to reinforce a lot of things. once we cut the roof off
> the car was like a banana. It flexed and twisted
> all over the place...To fix it we welded the doors shut and welded a big
> brace across the b pillars behind the back seat which made it
> soild as a rock.... Dont know how you go about the legalities of it but I'm
> sure I'll find out on the next attempt...
>
> There was an article in hot4's ages ago on a guy from america coming over to
> oz and building a convertable 510 in about 2weeks and then driving it down
> the great ocean road...
> He had to build a big cross brace section under the car and fit a few roll
> bars up top to pass an engineers report....Funny thing was it rained the
> whole
> way on the trip down the coast so they wore yellow rain coats and helmets.
> If I can find the article I will scan it in..
>
> CP..
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Julian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Friday, September 15, 2000 6:19 PM
> Subject: Re: Ever made a convertable?
>
> > was it hard, what did you do?
> >
> > CP wrote:
> >
> > > yup
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: "Julian" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > To: "OZDAT" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > Sent: Friday, September 15, 2000 5:13 PM
> > > Subject: Ever made a convertable?
> > >
> > > > Is there anyone on the list who has converted a hard top to a
> > > > convertable.
> > > >
> > > > I am considering doing this next year to a HR31 coupe.
> > > >
> > > > Specifically, what do engineers want (in price and modifications) done
> > > > to cars for them to pass?
> > > >
> > > > I don't see too many problems with this car as it is full chassis and
> i
> > > > plan to have a roll over hoop and think the full chassis should
> provide
> > > > the rigidity needed..
> > > >
> > > > - Julian
> > > >
> > >
> >
>
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