1982 Group 4 replica from a 1985 WR

[puglife]

Originally Posted by SorenR

Do anyone know or have done business with this company?
Plastics 4 Performance - Polycarbonate motorsport windows, mudflaps and accessories
They seem to have just the window kit I'm looking for.. Thermoshaped windows in 5 mm clear polycarbonate..

They're based near to me. Very reputable company and i've used them once and will be using them for a few project builds.

[SorenR]

@Marc

Oh.... This is a must in Denmark.. Front can be laminated (OEM), but sides and rear must be Lexan (polycarbonate). Club racers should use 3mm and historical rally cars should use 5mm...

[SorenR]

Originally Posted by puglife

They're based near to me. Very reputable company and i've used them once and will be using them for a few project builds.

Are they very expensive compared to other window makers ?

[Rally43]

Marc...

Nice updates..... Cant wait for the finsihed product.... Hard to believe that they wont allow LEXAN in your cars.. Much safer for the occupants and the enviroment... I use to have all the windows except the front oem in lexan... Made the top more rigeid as there were screws every 2 inches holding it in verses a rubber grommet.....

Did you decide what light brackets to use or build yet ?

Tim

[marcz]

Hi Tim

Thanks for the comments. Heh, you think you can't wait for the finished product?

We spent about three and a half hours last Sunday just gapping the car. My paint/panel guy is pedantic and even if this car is going to get a bit of a flogging in the forests, he wants it to look absolutely 100% when he's finished.

Correct, we are not allowed the lexan windows but I think things are changing.

The spotlight brackets are being copied from Todd's ex-works car, R26 (IN-NK 79) as I have no other examples in such good detail to copy. They are pretty full-on! Pictures are here: http://rallyquattro.net/photos/brackets/

[Rally43]

Funny about your body guy being so picky... I was talking with Paul Taylor ( Ex David Sutton technician ) and he said its funny people building or re finishing the old group b cars are making them way better than what they use to back in the day... Back then he said it was all about function and what they had at their shops.. They couldnt just call up and order performance parts or panels.. they had to make them... They didnt worry about panel alignment or appearance things...


Just remember to make an extra set of Rally Light brackets for me...

[marcz]

I know... and it shows too! Not that I have ever seen one in the flesh anyway but all the period photos I have seen of the works cars, I was always too busy drooling to notice. Now that Jason has sat looking at them with me, I now just notice all the things that he pointed out. It's like being told that Santa doesn't exist

Jason has done a lot of hot rods and show cars in the past and that's his mindset. He has only ever worked on one rally car before this and that was a "Saturday night emergency repair" on a works Mitsubishi Evo that had hit a tree sideways. It was ready for the event restart on Sunday morning.

On the light brackets, I was asked yesterday to make a cardboard template before the cutting and welding starts. I guess that's what I'll be doing today. When we cut all the alloy, I'll be getting duplicates cut, if not welded up. If I can afford it (the material), I'll cut an extra set. But don't forget they attach to the crossbar that sits behind the bumper!

[SorenR]

Originally Posted by marcz

I know... and it shows too! Not that I have ever seen one in the flesh anyway but all the period photos I have seen of the works cars, I was always too busy drooling to notice. Now that Jason has sat looking at them with me, I now just notice all the things that he pointed out. It's like being told that Santa doesn't exist

Jason has done a lot of hot rods and show cars in the past and that's his mindset. He has only ever worked on one rally car before this and that was a \\"Saturday night emergency repair\\" on a works Mitsubishi Evo that had hit a tree sideways. It was ready for the event restart on Sunday morning.

On the light brackets, I was asked yesterday to make a cardboard template before the cutting and welding starts. I guess that's what I'll be doing today. When we cut all the alloy, I'll be getting duplicates cut, if not welded up. If I can afford it (the material), I'll cut an extra set. But don't forget they attach to the crossbar that sits behind the bumper!

How about laying out the cardboard after you are done with mesurements, angles and scale, take a photo so that the rest of us without access to a real Works car can use it as a blueprint to make our own cardboard templates ???

Pretty Please

[marcz]

Done and done I am happy to do that Søren... but don't forget that, thanks to Todd, the photos of the real ones are already on my server: http://rallyquattro.net/photos/brackets/

[SorenR]

Originally Posted by marcz

Done and done I am happy to do that Søren... but don't forget that, thanks to Todd, the photos of the real ones are already on my server: http://rallyquattro.net/photos/brackets/

I've seen those and I have no doubt that one can make exact copies from Todd's pictures but... This is where the lazy bit comes in.. With a picture of the cardboard pieces laid out I can take a projector, attach it to my computer, aim it at the wall, adjust the scale and make an exact drawing on a big piece of paper

Then my local version of "Theodore Rimspoke" can build me a set... Theodore Rimspoke is the guy from Pinchcliffe Grand Prix who built Il Tempo Gigante

YouTube - Gatebil 2008 il tempo gigante