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- have you sorted the fitting of the soft top Nick ?

Will it fit with the hardtop in place (I'm guessing probably not...?)

James

Great job..really suits the car.

Have you considered perspex /polycarbonate rear window..you could then drill holes in window covered with rain shields as per many race cars.

My experience of the S5 hardtop was that once we'd got it watertight, to prevent misting I then needed 4 or 5 vent holes in the trailing edge of the roof. What Kevfitz said :-)

I think I might need to get the Air Con regassed!



Thanks David.



I am probably lacking my morning coffee, which flange do you mean?

The soft top can be refitted, and I have had mine slightly modified as it used some additional poppers on the A-pillar which are now being removed (variant number 1.3 of Series 1 roof) to allow this to happen and still function.
It won't be a 2 minute job, but that is partly down to having the earlier Gangster style roof which mounts a little differently to the later Easy-up pram style. It shouldn't however be to difficult!

I haven't actually seen a later hooded Series 1 in a while so can't comment on how they fit, but I do know that 1 of the GTN's had their hardtop fitted with the soft top in situ, so technically it must be possible!



I spoke to Plastics4Performance yesterday and they can commission a window for me, but I need to first make a 4mm thick aluminium mold...
As for the holes, I guess I will cross that bridge when I get to it - I was hoping a bit of antifog solution on the windows and the air con would keep them largely mist free.



Interesting, do you have any pictures of these? I didn't realise they were needed on the S5.

Nick, re the rear 'screen template, If you can get the car up to P4P's works they lay over yours a test screen & then work from that, they even match the curvature too

Would you ask if he is interested in making another and possible one for the hardtop as well?

Also, what colour blue is your car?

Interesting, do you have any pictures of these? I didn't realise they were needed on the S5.
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I can grab pics when I'm next with the car...
I needed the through flow of air that the rear holes provided only after the roof had been fettled to a point where *it doesn't leak*!
(Well, the header rail doesn't leak, and the vertical door seals don't leak... the bottom edges though aren't yet watertight, but it takes a deluge to cause seepage.) At that point of watertightness, it's also sufficiently airtight that unless a window is cracked open, then two-up on a damp day the side and rear windows mist up, even at speed.

Williams drilled 4 or 5 holes in the roof's trailing edge - which the S1 doesn't have.
On the other hand, does the S1 have heated windows?

Will

The GTN hard top has a heated glass rear window