Ians new project.
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January 18, 2022 at 14:52 #72696Larry PointerParticipant
What an eye you have, Rik. I sourced some stock Mercury side-view shots, and that slight curve does stand out the the middle of the door top frame as the high point. And the drip molding in its continuation does flow perfectly on over the quarter window. The rear top corner of the door glass and that of the quarter window’s front top corner align with that curvature. Somehow the quarter window in many chopped tops does seem to drop lower than that arc?
January 18, 2022 at 17:25 #72697Ian GibbonsParticipantThanks Rik! The drip rails will be shaved. I will play around with the top of the doors and see what I can come up with. The back of the door is going down a bit already (may not be enough) trying to get that flow you are talking about. Part of the problem is I think my doors may be longer than stock so that makes the flat top even more noticeable so a slight curve will help that as well. Thanks for all the help everyone.
January 18, 2022 at 20:10 #72699DavidParticipantI think Rik has nailed it right there. I guess it’s not so much a bow up in the middle as it is a trailing off on the back of the window/door frame into the 1/4 window. I think you are in a “lucky” spot having nothing to go off really and can make the shape whatever you need it to be to get the flow going right where you want it. Hard to tell not seeing the full 1/4 window, but it does look to me the line of the top of the door where it is now kinda makes it look like the back corner of the door runs up (I know it’s not but in relation to the 1/4 it sort of looks that way). It is easy to see your skill is way above most of us backyard hacks, so I’m confident you will land in just the perfect spot. 🙂
January 19, 2022 at 18:23 #72709Ian GibbonsParticipantI think Rik has nailed it right there. I guess it’s not so much a bow up in the middle as it is a trailing off on the back of the window/door frame into the 1/4 window. I think you are in a “lucky” spot having nothing to go off really and can make the shape whatever you need it to be to get the flow going right where you want it. Hard to tell not seeing the full 1/4 window, but it does look to me the line of the top of the door where it is now kinda makes it look like the back corner of the door runs up (I know it’s not but in relation to the 1/4 it sort of looks that way). It is easy to see your skill is way above most of us backyard hacks, so I’m confident you will land in just the perfect spot.
It may look like it is running up because the door isn’t closing properly so the B pillar end of the door is sitting about and inch out which leads me to my next question is the top of the door also curved front to back along the face as well as not being flat across the top? Currently I am hitting on the upper window frame about the mid point of the opening on the inner sill that extends down into the opening behind the door. These are tipped out quite substantially as well so I am not sure if they are correct either.
January 20, 2022 at 16:40 #72745DavidParticipantMine does curve a little bit front to back. Looked through all my pictures and here a couple that kind of show it.
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January 22, 2022 at 00:11 #72758Ian GibbonsParticipantOK Thanks to David’s fantastic help and pictures I have started making some adjustments to the window frame. I decided the front to back shape along the face needed to be tackled first so I cut a slit in the bottom the the frame and added a filler to push it out and then hammered the upper edge out into a curve so that is fit the contour of the roof better.
January 22, 2022 at 00:12 #72759Ian GibbonsParticipantCleaned up a little.
January 22, 2022 at 00:13 #72760Ian GibbonsParticipantAnd fit to the car. Still need a couple of small tweaks but it is much better than it was.
Next I have to add some metal to the top edge of the door to get it to flow with the roof opening a bit better but not sure how I am going to do that yet so….
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January 22, 2022 at 00:36 #72762Larry PointerParticipantDon’t weaken, Ian. Much improvement, with a little snip here, tuck there. David’s example was the way out of your dilemma, for sure. Long live the CCC.
March 7, 2022 at 00:18 #73029Ian GibbonsParticipantBeen awhile but I was not happy with the direction the door tops were going so needed to wrap my head around what I was going to do to fix them. The solution? Start over again. This time I used a tipping wheel to do the bends so they were not straight lines or shrunk and stretched the edges to get the flow I needed. Much happier with the results.
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March 7, 2022 at 00:18 #73030Ian GibbonsParticipantMarch 7, 2022 at 19:30 #73035TorchieParticipantLooks much betterIan.
Keep at it. You are gaining on it!!
Torchie
March 8, 2022 at 20:44 #73050DavidParticipantRight on the money Ian! Looks great!!
March 10, 2022 at 05:18 #73062ShanahanParticipantNice work, looks good!
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