Plastic sides
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Plastic sides
Can someone tell me why the convertibles had the plastic piece's going down the side to the back instead of a regular rear spoiler
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Re: Plastic sides
So you can take them off and put a normal rear spoiler on then because I hate the way it looks
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Re: Plastic sides
Yes, they come off pretty easily.
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Re: Plastic sides
i wounder if anyone has any pics without them on and a regular spoiler
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Re: Plastic sides
The other reason is too hide design flaws easily.
The trunk is a different shape and a normal spoiler will need to be tweaked to look normal and so will the lip.
The trunk is a different shape and a normal spoiler will need to be tweaked to look normal and so will the lip.
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I have a couple photos from my the paint and body portion of my convertible build that may help illustrate the point. ASC simply chopped the roof from an existing car and then made a couple spot welds. There is an enormous gap (wavering, not straight) between the trunk lid and fenders. There is also a height mismatch between the trunk lid and the fenders. In the pictures the height difference is 1/4" but that was with no weatherstripping. With the weatherstripping it was 3/8-1/2" I'm not a fan of the convertible spoilers so I knew I was going to replace it. I wanted to use a duckbill spoiler but it would require so much work since the body contour and fender height would be different between a fixed convertible and a t-top.
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I had to make a new piece inside the channel and weld it in. I used the expanding foam to afix the top strip into position so it was in the perfect spot and level with the trunk lid. I don't have any pictures but I also welded a strip to the side between the top of the old fender and the new top that I made.
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Another member (that seems to have left the thirdgen community) did a write up of mounting the high rise spoiler while using the existing side caps a few years ago. He kept the sides of the wrap around spoiler intact and cut the side caps of the spoiler to fit to the side caps of the convertible's fenders. His thread is here
https://www.thirdgen.org/forums/conv...ml#post4875374
And these are his pictures:
He seemed to have gotten the idea from this members thread:
https://www.thirdgen.org/forums/conv...h-rise-my.html
https://www.thirdgen.org/forums/conv...ml#post4875374
And these are his pictures:
He seemed to have gotten the idea from this members thread:
https://www.thirdgen.org/forums/conv...h-rise-my.html
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Re: Plastic sides
Another member (that seems to have left the thirdgen community) did a write up of mounting the high rise spoiler while using the existing side caps a few years ago. He kept the sides of the wrap around spoiler intact and cut the side caps of the spoiler to fit to the side caps of the convertible's fenders. His thread is here
https://www.thirdgen.org/forums/conv...ml#post4875374
And these are his pictures:
He seemed to have gotten the idea from this members thread:
https://www.thirdgen.org/forums/conv...h-rise-my.html
https://www.thirdgen.org/forums/conv...ml#post4875374
And these are his pictures:
He seemed to have gotten the idea from this members thread:
https://www.thirdgen.org/forums/conv...h-rise-my.html
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I had some questions about how he mounted his high rise that weren't handled in his thread so I reached out to him via (polite) emails, private message and replies in his thread way back in the spring. Never heard from him. Hence why I say he isn't active here.
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Re: Plastic sides
Tibo if yours is done could you post a profile pic?
This is something I am considering in the distant future but I'm afraid of ruining the body lines. Hardtop lines are what I prefer so the idea would be to go back to them but it looks like you altered the fender to match the trunk instead of somehow altering the trunk to match the fender, which changes the body lines the wrong way. Of course this is a personal preference and not meant in a bad way.
But I'd like to see it regardless of how you approached it.
This is something I am considering in the distant future but I'm afraid of ruining the body lines. Hardtop lines are what I prefer so the idea would be to go back to them but it looks like you altered the fender to match the trunk instead of somehow altering the trunk to match the fender, which changes the body lines the wrong way. Of course this is a personal preference and not meant in a bad way.
But I'd like to see it regardless of how you approached it.
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but it looks like you altered the fender to match the trunk instead of somehow altering the trunk to match the fender, which changes the body lines the wrong way. Of course this is a personal preference and not meant in a bad way.
But I'd like to see it regardless of how you approached it.
But I'd like to see it regardless of how you approached it.
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I can take a picture from that exact angle on Monday. The car isn't done so it is still sitting in the garage. No tonneau cover on yet. I had to spot spray a few spots so I will need to re wet sand. I'll measure the height above the tailights as that might be the best indicator for if I raised the body line. I have a laser level I can try to use for this.
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Re: Plastic sides
That would be great. My problem is while a Camaro actually mostly hides it with the spoiler it is exacerbated by the trans am whale tail.