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 > > > > > > --membersozdat------------------------------------------------------- OZDAT Mailing List Please Note:- Send (un)subscribe requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send submissions to [EMAIL PROTECTED] No unauthorised redistribution of this email http://www.ozdat.com/ozdatonline/index.htm http://www.ozdat.com/ozdatonline/listindex.html http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------
