Taking the dimensions to work tomorrow to order the lexan for the rear windows. The front driver and passenger windows will be replaced with nets, and the front window will be left alone for now. It's illegal for me to replace it and drive with it on the streets. So I'm sure I'll drive the car to one or two more meets before submitting her as a non-moving vehicle to the Texas DMV. I should get the lexan by the following day and I'm bringing the car to work on Saturday to install it with some help.







Not exciting pics or anything, but something new nevertheless.

 

no more street beast? boo.......
the roof always cracks me up when i see it.

 

haha, me too. should I paint it?

 

you should at least paint it..

 

atleast flat black so it doesnt stick out like a sore thumb.

 

interesting. and yes, paint the roof.

 

^^Agreed.

 

cool! whats new with you chris?

 

I'll give you a call this week.

 

wait, I thought you finally moved back out to SOcal???

 

probably after 5pm on saturday is good to call.

oh yea. i need to hit up Mauricio for the tires. but i have alot of things that are coming up like my FL. trip. after that then it will be cool.

 

I moved back after realizing the money was way better out here.

 

Seeing the roof in person was definitely a trip, painting it would make it look more sleeper, personally aside from the swap, the d-plate roof and bullet hole are my fav parts of cocoa's CL.

 

Can someone please explain the whole story behind this "bullet hole" I keep hearing about?

 

search

 

:sigh: fine...
Never thought I would ever search for "bullet hole" on AZine..

 

wth is wrong with your roof? did you tape something over it?

 

He took out the sunroof for more weight reduction and put that aluminum thing there to cover the hole.

 

wow so that actualy stops rain and stuff from getting in??

 

If you seal it up well, there shouldn't be any issues.

 

It's sealed all the way around, here's a pic I took of it



oh and for the youngins, here's the bullet hole

 

Holy crap Cocoa! Just read up on that bullet hole incident. Glad your ok. That shit is crazy.
Soooooo... what do you mean about these "races?" and where at? Was this when you were in Texas? Jus curious..

 

the ones that i made? then it was in So.Cal

 

Here are my lexan sheets weighing in at 19lbs before cutting them to fit.

 

well then. . . welcome back

 

This was back when the Ontario races were big out in SoCal. This was also shortly after high school when I was into them. I don't do that anymore, now that so much time has been put into the car.

 

Been through some extreme rains out here in Texas, no leaks. BUT, since I don't have A/C nor a heater, during the rain I have to drive with the windows down since the windows fog up. But I'm having the two front ones being replaced with nets, so that won't matter anymore.

 

There's another project I might jump on within the next few weeks. I'm looking into replacing my steel fender wells with aluminum. It's something we're discussing between me and the guy helping me out (he's built plenty of race cars from the ground up). We have all the supplies to do it at my work place minus some small things if that.

 

when you pull it i'm curious of the weight comparison.

 

You know damn straight I'm weighing that as soon as it gets off. That's all I've been doing with everything that comes off. I'm always curious to see what everything weighs.

 

Do not attempt this if you have a weak stomach. In fact, I recommend you have a shop do this for you if you want to go this route.

I got up at 7:30am and just now finally got out the shower at 7ish pm. This was an all day project. I went at it for 7 hours straight non stop without food. The other 5 hours were spent on numerous of things.

I'll say it right now, I don't like the clear silicone I went with. I do plan on taping the outter lexan with some sort of sticky black substance to hide it. That will also cover the rivets which doesn't matter to me.

I attempted to take the glass out without breaking it. The first small window was almost out when it shattered at the last tip of taking it off. After that I grabbed a sledge hammer and had my way with the other two.

I noticed a significant difference in weight between the total weight of the lexan compared with the shattered rear window held together by tape. I would say it honestly had taken a good 50-60 lbs off all together minimum.

I'm exhausted, and will post pics up shortly. I can't think of anything else I wanted to say as I'm in a hurry to grab another beer and chill.

Peace.

 

 

Oh snap! That's tite right there.

 

wow nice job chris, serious track machine now (not that it wasn't before). How'd you curve the lexan, heat gun?

 

there's no way you are going to have any passengers in that thing.

crazy man.

 

now you are one insane man. but i must admit, i like it

 

i think it looks sick, are u eventually going to take apart the dash and just have the steering column?

 

That's awesome man... straight up ridiculous.

 

You're the man Chris

 

the rear window looks amazing.