General trying to find an old hood thread

[wish mine was orange]

ok a while ago there was a thread about replacing the rear window with a glass one there was a you tube in it, i cant find it :bang:
can someone help me find it please :worship:

 

[bumble]

I recall this thread but can't find it. Maybe someone mentioned Ebay and you sent it hence to endless night. Have a look at

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I think this is the guy who developed the folding glass screen.

Steve

 

[Rustbucket]

Be interesting to see how he did that. Looks a bit like the glass screen on the later Honda S2000's.

I was looking at the rear glass from the hard top and wondering if you could modify the soft hood to take the glass as a removable section...but how to store in the hood space as its a whacking big piece of curved glass.

I think the way to do it would be to modify the rear of the hood so the glass pane was flat, not compound curves. Then it could be detached from the hood before folding and stored on top of the folded hood.

Final thought is Nah! Too much work..sticking with the hard top.

 

[KC3]

Talking about hoods, this would be great to have on the B.. UHM! :idea:ELECTRIC!!

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[wish mine was orange]

thanks bumble thats the one, kc electric roof would make you arms flabby from lack of execise

 

[s130]

Having recently had a new hood I was pondering how I could put glass in the rear screen.

The simple? solution is actually a dual hinged pane. Such a solution would avoid the often require "un zip rear screen before folding roof".

I've also thought this.....

The 'B's wing mirrors are pretty good. The wing mirror to short hood line means that the wing mirrors actually provide (when correctly adjusted) adequate if not almost full rear view. Also with a "wind stop" reducing vison through the rear screen then one begins to wonder if a hood with no rear sceen is actually a longer life hood alternative.

 

[afroking]

Having recently had a new hood I was pondering how I could put glass in the rear screen.

The simple? solution is actually a dual hinged pane. Such a solution would avoid the often require "un zip rear screen before folding roof".

I've also thought this.....

The 'B's wing mirrors are pretty good. The wing mirror to short hood line means that the wing mirrors actually provide (when correctly adjusted) adequate if not almost full rear view. Also with a "wind stop" reducing vison through the rear screen then one begins to wonder if a hood with no rear sceen is actually a longer life hood alternative.

That would look ridiculous, sorry but it would!

 

[Rustbucket]

thanks bumble thats the one, kc electric roof would make you arms flabby from lack of execise

Electric hoods are a pain in the A*. Friend has a Renault cabrio with one..5 motors and 11 sensors to make it work..He's had more trouble with the roof than Apollo 13's moon mission.

 

[afroking]

Electric hoods are a pain in the A*. Friend has a Renault cabrio with one..5 motors and 11 sensors to make it work..He's had more trouble with the roof than Apollo 13's moon mission.

I know of a similar story...

 

[s130]

That would look ridiculous, sorry but it would!

The split folding glass or no rear window at all.

If no rear window at all, then when our new hood was fitted the rear lens was covered and protected by the same Mohair hood material that was cut out in the first place. What you actually saw was just the border rib around the window profile. Actually didn't look that bad.

A horizontal line across the split rear glass screen would complete ruin all the lovely curvery lines of the 'B'.

 

[Rustbucket]

In theory a good idea. In practice impossible to do without completely re-designing the hood.

Where this would could fail is in the seals and wind noise. Unless its done right the thing will fill the car with water as the airflow pushes water over the hood and the air gaps will make it scream like a banshee.

With enough cash its do-able. Guy on the coupe forum asked a specialist coach builder for a price for cabrio conversion. £10k, 5k of it was a custom hood.

 

[KC3]

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This guy says he is in the process of making complete hoods with the glass conversion...