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"That was surprisingly easy!"
"That was surprisingly easy!"
This was it, something we'd been dreading for a while! We have no plans to IVA the car with a windscreen as we wont be fitting a demister, but we do want a windscreen and it made sense to get it sorted to a 'bolt on stage' before we paint the scuttle.
We didn't want to pay £400 for the ready assembled windscreen & frame, so we bought the £200 DIY kit. Quite unsure how difficult it would be, we embarked on our mission to fit it one fine Saturday.
Forgot to take any pictures of us bending the frame or mitring it. It was surprisingly easy, just sort of get them set in the mitre saw and go for it! Only managed to get it caught in the sawblade once, stall the saw and bend the rear support on brand Matt's new saw!
Drilled and countersunk the holes for the screws that hold the frame together and surprisingly, that was the windscreen frame done! On to the brackets!
This also wasn't too bad. First drill the required holes in the brackets for the frame screws and the wing mirrors. We had an old set of brackets that GBS kindly gave us so marking the holes couldn't have been easier
We bent the brackets to follow the scuttle using the vice, then invented a tool (2 bits of angle bolted back to back) to twist the bracket into a shape that vaguely follows the scuttle and tweaks them back to sit square on the windscreen frame
Then we used the press to tweak the brackets back when we realised we had gone too far and they looked a bit like that wobbly spaghetti you get from posh shops like Waitrose!
And boom, there you have it. It all kind of fits together with a couple of clamps on it.
Once it's all clamped up, squared up and eyed in, mark the holes for the bracket - frame screws and that's it.
We are sending our screen back to GBS for powder coating so it matches in nicely with our black and orange theme.
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