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Lynn · 02-27-05, 02:25 PM

Mike,

These look very similar to the ones ERA has and the ones I ended up ordering from Dave Harvey (fka GT40NZ). It looks like you put the hinges on the outside as I can't see the screw heads. This is the way I plan to mount mine as well. This will allow me to maintain the extremely tight gap that laser cutting provided (I also bought the windows and flaps from Dave Harvey.) Dave claims that the gap is so tight that the surface tension of water doesn't allow it to enter the gap. Having a self sealing flap window is the ideal in my way of thinking since it provides as close to an uninterrupted view as possible. Do your toll flaps open and close smoothly and with no interference? Did you have to bevel the edge of the flap to clearance the edges as they swing through their arc?

I can't wait until my furniture (Southern Cross speak for hardware:-) arrives and I can get them mounted; the toll flaps are the last bits to do to finish up the car. My wife has gone to get film right now so I can take some pictures, but it'll be a couple of weeks before I can get them developed, scanned and uploaded. (Work's getting in the way of my car building again :-( Look for them in my build thread in the Builder's Forum.

Regards,
Lynn

02-27-05, 02:25 PM	#14 (permalink)
Lynn llarsen Admin Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Raleigh, NC GT40: Sabre Posts: 2,073 Rep Power: 29	Re: \"The Scarlet S\" or \"Getting it in writing isn\'t good eno Mike, These look very similar to the ones ERA has and the ones I ended up ordering from Dave Harvey (fka GT40NZ). It looks like you put the hinges on the outside as I can't see the screw heads. This is the way I plan to mount mine as well. This will allow me to maintain the extremely tight gap that laser cutting provided (I also bought the windows and flaps from Dave Harvey.) Dave claims that the gap is so tight that the surface tension of water doesn't allow it to enter the gap. Having a self sealing flap window is the ideal in my way of thinking since it provides as close to an uninterrupted view as possible. Do your toll flaps open and close smoothly and with no interference? Did you have to bevel the edge of the flap to clearance the edges as they swing through their arc? I can't wait until my furniture (Southern Cross speak for hardware:-) arrives and I can get them mounted; the toll flaps are the last bits to do to finish up the car. My wife has gone to get film right now so I can take some pictures, but it'll be a couple of weeks before I can get them developed, scanned and uploaded. (Work's getting in the way of my car building again :-( Look for them in my build thread in the Builder's Forum. Regards, Lynn