RCR's body mods... (Page 35/67) RCR MAR 12, 09:08 AM Might make a trip to the salvage yard today. looking for obligatory Fiero stuff and some hinges. Hinges you ask? Taking from the pages of our great fabrication brethren here at PFF, Bozzie and CarLo immediately come to mind, I got the disk cutter out and went crazy. I never liked the look of the rear deck anyway, so I went with something more OE looking. Im going to hinge the rear deck on the "C"-pillar. And, I'm lowering the deck about 2.5" near the back window. Once everything was cut and layed in place, it confirmed my belief that the deck was way too high. A few pics... I've already started framing the hood with steel, but apparently I didn't grab my phone to get pics. More soon on that. I also did some work on those pesky headlights. I now have functioning stops. New arw that mounts onto motor. The mod required me to make a plate inwhich the stops could be mounted. The plate screws onto the side of the motor cradle. Both stops mounted. Two of them mounted to motor cradles. Should get more pics after the weekend. Looks like it's going to be nice in the garage again. Bob dobie1 MAR 12, 10:48 AM Hi Bob Glad to see your back at it again!! I'm assuming that you will mold and attach a lighter new back deck to the modified fast back, in order to make it lighter? I like the design idea for the head light buckets! My project is still on hold while I finish the renos on my house should be finished next week, then up for sale. The market is hot in Victoria so should do well I hope, then find a house and acreage with a shop for me to start up my project again! Keep posting look forward to the updates. Wayne RCR MAR 12, 08:41 PM Hey Wayne. Glad to see you're doing well, and thanx for checking in. The headlights are something I'm tinkering with. I'm not sure if it's the direction I want go. I'm still noodling a few ideas. As for the back deck...Things can change fast on this one. I have cut out the bottom layer and will be creating a new one that captures the tubing. As for the change... I've decided against the stock 308 deck opening and will be glassing the c-pillars back on. I've found several issue with that style opening that I don't think I want to tackle. - The way it swings open, I need to swing up and forward above the roof to get any kind of opening. This is cause by the lowered deck. - I didn't think there was enough metal in the rear roof section to adequately support the "huge" deck. - Once hinged, I wouldn't be able to open the deck in the garage with the garage door up. Not enough clearance - and lastly, I still plan on adding the spoiler. That thing is heavy, and hanging off the end would require a lot of bracing. So, I decided to do the reverse flip deck from the 288GTO. After having looked at it using the hinges I picked up (to do the forward flip) I think it's going to work out great. Ultimately, it should swing back and down across the tail lights. It should provide plenty of room and keep the weight of the spoiler right on the mounts. I have to retweak most of the framework I did last week, but no biggie. It's almost done. Need to upload some pics and I'll get them added. Bob RCR MAR 12, 08:53 PM And some pics... The new lowered position. This shows how much will be added to the c-pillar. This is with the deck lid laying on it. Bottom cut out of the deck. Hinge on the c-pillar Hinge on the rear Some of the bracing going together. Should be more tomorrow. Bob RCR MAR 20, 02:28 PM A couple more weekends worth of work. It's starting to look like something. It may actually work. More bracing (and moved around a bit). Building the brace for the hinge. Positioning the hinge. Lining up the framework. Lining up the decklid assembly on the hinges. Getting the screws in was a bit more difficult than I had planned. Still needs work. And this is what it will look like. I still need to perfect the locations and movements, but it's functional. Bob motoracer838 MAR 20, 07:57 PM Have you opened it with the sail panel in place, it looks like you wont like the access. Joe Neils88 MAR 20, 08:04 PM Looking great Bob! RCR MAR 21, 05:47 AM quote Originally posted by motoracer838: Have you opened it with the sail panel in place, it looks like you wont like the access. Joe I did. It's not as good as if the sail panels were not there, but it is better than (or as good as) flipping the deck forward, and much better than attaching the sail panels and flipping forward. I don't think it's possible, but I am going to at least look at attaching the sails and flipping it back. Neil, thank you. Bob DKcustoms MAR 21, 07:43 PM What did you end up doing with the c7 seats? RCR MAR 22, 05:37 AM quote Originally posted by DKcustoms: What did you end up doing with the c7 seats? Nothing yet. They are not going to fit without major mods. I might turn them into office chairs. Bob