t-top conversion (finished no pics yet)

[kristen]

hey shenanigans, how long did it take you to do your t top conversion?

i'm so excited we are going to start saturday. well i'm going to start this afternoon. simple stuff, take the headliner out of the car and visors. i think that i might take out the seats too. i'm not too sure. so i know a t top conversion hasn't been done here in a while so i'm going take alot of pics and post alot on this thread.

it's not every day that you get to cut the roof off your car! so if there anyone who want to come over and watch or lend a hand your more than welcome. i know a few people are going to be there already. email me
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hockeyman we are going to go out to eat at 7 am saturday and then go start the project. give me a call.

[ December 18, 2005, 06:50 PM: Message edited by: kristen ]

[95FirebirdConvertible]

Good luck.

[iGoRa]

Originally posted by kristen:
i'm going take alot of pics and post alot on this thread.

it's not every day that you get to cut the roof off your car! so if there anyone who want to come over and watch or lend a hand your more than welcome.

Get as many as possible! , I want to get that done too!
I wish I could come over..

[shenanigans]

If you want a tip, we didn't do it but I have heard peaple have. Keep the old headliner in when you do alot of cutting, it containes the mess some.


Also remember if after you cut metal vaccuum your car asap. Even though you think everything was covered you will still have "metal shavings" in the rug.

after 3 days I got a few rust spots under the seat where I didn't vacuum well once a little humidity kicked in.

Good luck. Once you peal the roof skin off its a cake walk.

[hockeyman]

Originally posted by kristen:
hockeyman we are going to go out to eat at 7 am saturday and then go start the project. give me a call.

I have to work 2p x 10p on saturday, but I'll stop by a few hours before I have to report in. I have Sunday & Monday off so I can probably lend a better hand those two days.
May add another tip; Remove the seats altogether. This way they won't be in the way and it helps with the cleanup too.

[kristen]

yeah i am, and we are going to do this at shauns old apartment(where we worked on it before)

[kristen]

[kristen]

[kristen]

ok sorry here is the story on what happened. we cut off the skins. them the bars. everything was really cut and dry. now tomorrow we are going to do some fiber glassing, weather triming and maybe some painting. it looks so good guys. we put the t tops on. and omg. sweet! and believe it or not i wasn't freaked about doing it at all. hockeyman stoped over and was shocked. but who wouldn't be. i think i say about a million times today "omg i just cut the roof off the camaro" i'll keep you guys posted tomorrow

[pumm3l]

omg, you just cut the roof off your car!

[kristen]

you were there! hehe

[rallysportchic97]

Looks good!

[Silverbird2002]

wow alot of work! looks good though. send me some pics when your done Kristen! Looks sweet though!

[Silverbird2002]

oh and by the way you just cut the roof of of your car you do know that right?

[shenanigans]

haha congrats...

the only part that I thought really hard was the initial cutting of the skin.


After that it jsut seemed like a "project car" didn't seem so much like your own because it didn't look the same.

well good luck.