Sun Visors for GTs?

Iron Sheik · 10-22-03, 08:05 PM

Has anyone here used sun visors inside the car?! I realize they have to be fairly narrow. There are times that I am blinded driving the car. I wonder if there is an OEM part from another car that have been used

Thanks,

LastDeadLast · 10-22-03, 08:42 PM

I wonder if the new Ford GT will have them. It's not THAT much bigger, I bet they would fit with little modification.

-Shannon

40 Bud · 10-22-03, 08:55 PM

Have you seen the narrow smoked or green lexan or acrylic ones sometimes used on the Cobra's? They only fold up and down and you would have to attach the pivots to the roof. They should work and not block your veiw! If you can't find them for sale you could probably make them.

Rick Muck- Mark IV · 10-22-03, 09:05 PM

The new Ford GT will have visors as they are required for DOT certification. A neat solution was used by Ferrari on the Daytona Spyders, they had little window shade type units in the header that pulled down and secured to the glass with built in suction cups. They were made of a perforated material that allowed some vision through them but blocked enough sun to do the job.

Rick [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

Iron Sheik · 10-23-03, 02:32 PM

Thanks guys,,,,,,Bud, as always you come up with the best answer. I don't know why I did not think of that. All I have to do is pull one of visors from the Cobra and try it!!

I am sure the tinted plexiglass can be cut to fit my application

Howard Jones · 10-23-03, 08:08 PM

The ones used in a mazda miata are small about the right lenght and fold in half. Have a look at one the next chance you get. Hey guys lets have a "help me sand on the bodywork party" God, I hate doing this body prep stuff, I am about 60% done with the rear clip.

Iron Sheik · 10-24-03, 02:05 PM

Howy,
Every drop of sweat = $$. Think of all the money you will be saving OR all the fiberglass you will be eating [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img] [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

What year Miata are we talking about?!

DON S. · 10-25-03, 08:46 AM

The perforated-window-shade-with-a-suction-cup sun visors on the Ferrari Daytona were also used on the Ferrari 246 GTS Dino Sypder (and perhaps the coupe too). Although "neat" intellectually in addressing the problem, I can tell you from personal experience with my old 246GTS that from a practical standpoint these things worked for sh--! Getting the suction cup to "stick" to the inside of the windshield always required mutiple attempts and some bit of double-jointedness in the close confines of the 246 cockpit--always fun as you're tottling along trying to avoid the wide-eyed two-lane excursions of other drivers as they gawked down (and this was in the days before SUVs with their elevated driver perches) at the retina-searing-yellow, wildly curvaceous Dino and mouthed "What the hell is that?" Even, better, once secured this little Italian engineering (but is that an oxymoron?) joke would come unstuck from the windshield at totally random intervals and roll up with a clatter that would startle the beejezus out of me regardless of how many times it happened and how I tried to tell myself to expect it. If this is what Ford is thinking about for the new GT, they're heading down the wrong path and into lawsuit country.

Brian Magee · 10-25-03, 07:12 PM

Sun visor in a GT40?
What's wrong with a baseball cap with a long peak?

Brian.

Fran Hall RCR · 10-25-03, 07:40 PM

Raybans....

Brett James-McCall · 10-25-03, 08:56 PM

For the european folks may be the MGF visor would be an idea?

Brett

IAN UK · 10-26-03, 03:55 AM

Just a thought, I have seen advertised on e-bay sun visors with small LCD screens built into the visor, these visors are universal and fairly cheap, so should fit the forty.
What if you were to fit a tiny camera in the rear of the back deck connected to the visor so that you have perfect
rear vision.
come on now somebody, tell it can't be done so that I won't spend all winter trying to make it work!!
Ian

Brett James-McCall · 10-26-03, 05:39 AM

Ian,
Carnoisseur do a small(ish) bullet hole rear view camera... in theory there is no reason why it shouldn't work. Also, I remember a while back an article in Which Kit with a guy from Belgium with a libra, he had 2 cameras, one for reversing and another at the front near the splitter. This hooked up to a hard disk recording unit, so you could get v cool driving shots. I think the web address was something like www.ebenet.be or something. I'll see if I still have the article.

Brett

Bill Musarra · 10-26-03, 04:20 PM

All you have to do is search with Google or whatever for "rear vision cameras". You will get about 175,000 hits from systems to adaptable monitors.One even is part of the rear view mirror. The prices run from 200 to 3000. One neat one was from Federal Stereo.
" LANZAR SITO7R AM/FM Reciever 7"LCD Monitor indash unit. Motorized eject/flip up LCD Monitor AM/FM Reciever*AM/FMReciever &CD changer controller*indash unit. Apears to be standard car radio.*VHF/UHF tuner* RCA Jacks for easy hookup external video source* Audio video in & out* TV/AV switch for easy switching between sources
$799 now for $564."

Just depends on how wild you want to be, and how deep your pockets are.
Bill