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BlueSuzy

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Posted: Wed Jun 30, 2010 1:22 am

ok!

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Posted: Wed Jun 30, 2010 2:28 am

bagnkat wrote:

stockman wrote:

Looks good apart from the scoop things.

He's gotta add rigidity to it somehow though.

For what?
Standing on?

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nandor85

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Posted: Wed Jun 30, 2010 2:30 am

nah its so u dont get flex in it and it also helps to stop the water layig on the back

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Posted: Wed Jun 30, 2010 3:24 am

stockman wrote:

bagnkat wrote:

stockman wrote:

Looks good apart from the scoop things.

He's gotta add rigidity to it somehow though.

For what?
Standing on?

If you reduce the flex, you reduce the fatigue. A better fatigue life equals longer service and better value for money. It has little to do with asthetics.

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Posted: Wed Jun 30, 2010 5:16 am

How big is this thing going to be?
Why not just copy an existing hard top? they seem to work well.

I guess it's not a hard top as in roof hard top.

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nandor85

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Posted: Wed Jun 30, 2010 8:49 am

its like a ute tray cover not a hard top

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Posted: Sat Jul 03, 2010 2:36 pm

I think it's fantastic !
I've been looking at the yank ones at

http://www.rallytops.com/suzuki/samurai ... t-top.html

$695 plus freight charge, so probably $1000 with the aussie dollar the way it is at the moment
I'd like to make one out of Ali on the press at work but the welding on the corners would shit me to tears :cry:

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Fatzook

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Posted: Sat Jul 03, 2010 2:53 pm

96coily wrote:

Freight on that is $400 by 40day sea, or $800 airfeight. Thats US$$.

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Posted: Sat Jul 03, 2010 2:55 pm

96coily wrote:

Just build one.

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5ierra

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Posted: Sun Jul 04, 2010 3:36 am

Fatzook, Did you build the same thing for Tanshi??

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Posted: Sun Jul 04, 2010 4:10 am

Yepp, very tidy , but the rear windows not what I'm after,
still very tidy though

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Posted: Sun Jul 04, 2010 5:15 am

5ierra wrote:

Fatzook, Did you build the same thing for Tanshi??

Tanshi bought this one from me when I wrecked out the coily.

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Posted: Sun Jul 04, 2010 7:08 am

Ahhhhh ho k. though it looked oddly familiar.

matfan

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Posted: Mon Jan 17, 2011 9:46 pm

Did anything happen with this?

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nandor85

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Posted: Thu Jan 20, 2011 5:41 am

yeah i have the mold made up just trying to find into on what type on resin to use on it cuse i want it to flex and no just crack so been calling round alot and not many people know so if ya know any1 that might know any info would be very much appresiated

alien

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Posted: Fri Jan 21, 2011 12:30 pm

maybe try some fibreglassing forums? im sure theres many people out there with kit cars that made their own panels etc?

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Posted: Sat Jan 22, 2011 11:48 pm

thanks good idea didnt think of that hehehee

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Posted: Wed Mar 02, 2011 3:09 pm

any thing further on the project

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Posted: Wed Mar 02, 2011 6:04 pm

Any boatbuilder will tell what to do.

Swimming pools are strenghtened by glassing over half-round cardboard.

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nandor85

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Posted: Thu Mar 03, 2011 4:43 am

cheers guy i hav a guy here in adelaide that wants me to head down and he wants to have a look and he owns a fiberglass shop so yeah. when i get a chance to get down there i take it down to him.

he seems keen on building them, but like i said i have had no time to do shit.
thi boats taking up all spare time and that with rugby and work im flat out.

i have the mold ready to go

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Posted: Mon Mar 07, 2011 2:51 am

you should also get a mould of a Maruti roof im sure shitloads of people including my self would want one and it would tie in VERY nice with the cover

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Posted: Mon Mar 07, 2011 7:08 am

yeah well u know how hard it is to find 1 and they find some1 thats willing to get it stripped back and used to make a mold.
then to paint it again for them etc

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Posted: Mon Mar 07, 2011 9:47 pm

yer true just a suggestion tho because you would make alot of people happy and yourself alot of money

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Posted: Tue Mar 08, 2011 2:59 am

Is the maruti roof just the hardtop bit that clips onto soft tops? My new N/T lwb style side has a removable roof.

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bobbyb

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Posted: Sun Apr 03, 2011 9:45 pm

Will these fit generically? ie, leafy and coily? I have a coily but dont know anyone locally who owns a leafy to compare..

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Posted: Tue Apr 05, 2011 8:42 am

this is it

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Posted: Tue Apr 05, 2011 12:13 pm

bobbyb wrote:

Will these fit generically? ie, leafy and coily? I have a coily but dont know anyone locally who owns a leafy to compare..

Leafys and coilys have essentially the same tub. The only difference is in the coily not having a fold down windscreen. From there back the bodys are for all intensive purposes; identicle.

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Posted: Tue Apr 05, 2011 1:08 pm

suzi-fan-22 wrote:

this is it

uh, tonneau is the bit that covers the tray...

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Posted: Tue Apr 05, 2011 8:37 pm

Thanks Fatzook from what I can gather you seem to know your Suzys well.

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Posted: Tue Apr 05, 2011 8:39 pm

bobbyb wrote:

Thanks Fatzook from what I can gather you seem to know your Suzys well.

I know about half as much as others here have forgotten. :wink:

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