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I know body shops can put a sunroof in just about anything (coworker had one put in a Dodge Neon), but do body shops ever cut a hard top to put in T-tops or (even better) a Targa Top? I'm sure they could if I paid them enough, but is it common?
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Like what everyone else has said, it can be done, and you'll need some serious reinforcing. And it will be quite expensive, unless you are very good at fab.
TTop sure, targa top no. Not one member here I know of who has chopped the roof of thier car to make a targa has done it, let alone done it right so it does not leak like a garden hose. Many have attempted, you will probably see many pics of cars with the t bar chopped off, yet no one has made it work and/or made it somewhat water proof.
Originally posted by ES87iroc TTop sure, targa top no. Not one member here I know of who has chopped the roof of thier car to make a targa has done it, let alone done it right so it does not leak like a garden hose. Many have attempted, you will probably see many pics of cars with the t bar chopped off, yet no one has made it work and/or made it somewhat water proof.
Tribaldaze has targa'ed his Transam, the Simon and Simon car's were all targa's. I'm very very slowly working on a targa project of my own.
Originally posted by ES87iroc TTop sure, targa top no. Not one member here I know of who has chopped the roof of thier car to make a targa has done it, let alone done it right so it does not leak like a garden hose. Many have attempted, you will probably see many pics of cars with the t bar chopped off, yet no one has made it work and/or made it somewhat water proof.
wrong,
Tribaldaze did. I did but desided I wanted to finish it off and go vert. So like fatal88 did. I went all the way.
Front weather striping was used form a Vert. backs were original T top with a strip cut for the middle and added.
Quick simple way was to take the stock lexan tops and graft em together befor a mold was made for a foberglass top.
The only reason I desided to go vert is because a buddy who is Local desided he is gona do the same thing now. I walways wanted a vert and the conversion was easy.
Originally posted by Spectre where did you get parts like the trunk lid and what goes around it?
Convertibles are reinforced from the factory, what did you add besides the cages ... sfc & stb ?
As I said above I used everything from the vert donar and swaped over to my Z. I already had SFC's,STB,and the Cage in the Z. all I needed to do diff was modify the back bars to allow the vert tonnau cover to shut and the top to fold down.
when u were doing that targa how would graft the 2 lexan tops together what do u think would be the best means....bolt them together? glue them together? i'm just wondering because I think it would be a really cool thing todo...and might do it
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Originally posted by GokuZ06Roc when u were doing that targa how would graft the 2 lexan tops together what do u think would be the best means....bolt them together? glue them together? I'm just wondering because I think it would be a really cool thing to do...and might do it
Its allot more work then just going them together. Esp if you want it to look good.
Ive worked with composite materials (fiberglass,carbon fiber,Kevlar,etc) for around 8+ years. That and body work is just 2nd nature for me.
