myke pocock
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| posted on 17/8/11 at 07:00 PM |
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Making half side screens
Having recently made myself a half hood to the instructions on here my next project was for side screens. However with a classic car rally of 175
miles on Saturdayt and the promise of some rain I decided to look at half side screens. I suppose all know that water from the front wheesl hits the
rear arches and lands in your lap! On my car the silencer on the passengers side makes it worse. I therefore knocked up the half side screen with bits
left over from the hood. Not wanting at this stage to permanantly fix anything to the bodywork I did it the way shown. I think it is self explanatary
apart from the fact that I sewed some webbing into the top and bottom edge to give some sort of rigidity. Ive had it up to 70 and it works a treat but
havent tried it in rain yet. See what happens on Saturday.
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JeffHs
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| posted on 17/8/11 at 07:13 PM |
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looks very neat indeed. I assume its vinyl leathercloth as Woolies sells. Did you do the sewing? Did you have to use a heavy sewing machine?
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myke pocock
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| posted on 17/8/11 at 07:52 PM |
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The material is called Soft Top Car Hooding Vinyl and came from Fabricuk.com £11.99 per metre. Yes, I did the sewing with an old medium duty
Brother sewing machine bought off ebay as was everything else.
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RK
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| posted on 18/8/11 at 03:03 PM |
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Get it together and I am sure you could sell a few of those. They look very nice.
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