So I gave up on the climate control until the amplifier gets here, but the car was still wimpering, feeling alone and abandoned in the garage. So I got to reading the threads in here and found something about a wind screen. Then I started thinking about our drive last weekend, and having to pull over and put my sweater in the trunk because I didn't want it to blow out of the back. This is what I came up with:
I found some vinyl that's a very close match to the interior. I'm going to a plastics fabricator to get them to do a polycarbonate screen to stand up on this. I'll use some aluminum channel for the base. It's built out of plywood and oak bracing (for strength) that I had in the garage. It'll hold about 50 pounds, it'll come right out and store in the trunk if it needs to, and it keeps things from blowing around behind the seats. I think it worked.
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So I gave up on the climate control until the amplifier gets here, but the car was still wimpering, feeling alone and abandoned in the garage. So I got to reading the threads in here and found something about a wind screen. Then I started thinking about our drive last weekend, and having to pull over and put my sweater in the trunk because I didn't want it to blow out of the back. This is what I came up with:
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I found some vinyl that's a very close match to the interior. I'm going to a plastics fabricator to get them to do a polycarbonate screen to stand up on this. I'll use some aluminum channel for the base. It's built out of plywood and oak bracing (for strength) that I had in the garage. It'll hold about 50 pounds, it'll come right out and store in the trunk if it needs to, and it keeps things from blowing around behind the seats. I think it worked.
Good Show! Have you given any thought to making the "screen" fold down for the times you wish for the wind to blow about? European cabinet hinges work well, so I have been told.
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Where is it again that we are going... And why are we in a handbasket?
....I think you're on to something here. How did you attach at back? Does the wind get underneath the leading edge and want to lift it?
No wind problem at all. Each of the bolt heads you can see (5 of them in all) attach a "hook" that goes under the soft top lid and hangs over the lip. With the soft top locked down it's tight as a drum. There's one in the middle, one near each corner and one at each side toward the front.
I used 1/2" pipe clamps and reformed them to make the hooks, filing down the edges to make them smooth. The top is 3/8" plywood, and I glued and nailed oak brace strips under it for structural strength. I put two 25 lb. weights on it to make sure it'd hold up and it didn't even creak. The only things I had to buy was the pipe clamps and stainless steel screws - all the rest I had left over from other projects.
Have you given any thought to making the "screen" fold down for the times you wish for the wind to blow about? European cabinet hinges work well, so I have been told.
All I have to do is pop the soft top lid, lift it out and put it in the trunk when I want the wind. It fits right in (I tested it) and lays flat against the bottom of the trunk. The windscreen part of it will rest again the firewall of the trunk.
Sorry to ask but I have a SLC so... But just to know whats going on what is all the wind problems all you SL guys are having? It seems every one of you guys have it and are really tring to solve it.
The only wind problem us SLC owners seem to have is during the summer if you open any window or the top it's like turning on the heat . The heat seems to come up from the floor, right into your face....but it's worth it
Sorry to ask but I have a SLC so... But just to know whats going on what is all the wind problems all you SL guys are having? It seems every one of you guys have it and are really tring to solve it.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. But you SLC owners will never know the true joy of owning a 107 - putting the top down and just cruising.....
Sorry to ask but I have a SLC so... But just to know whats going on what is all the wind problems all you SL guys are having? It seems every one of you guys have it and are really tring to solve it.
The only wind problem us SLC owners seem to have is during the summer if you open any window or the top it's like turning on the heat . The heat seems to come up from the floor, right into your face....but it's worth it
It is not a "problem" with the SL's , but is a characteristic of any ragtop with the top down.
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