The Miura project begins (Page 35/84)
Sharkman AUG 22, 04:05 PM

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That looks like the idé I had for my car with the backseat armrest table from a Saab 9-5
With 2 cupholders coming out the front


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Regards SHARKMAN
Europe # 1 choptop
http://www.fieroforum.se/fo...=1342&st=0&sk=t&sd=a
http://www.fieroforum.se/fo...topic.php?f=10&t=173

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fourpoint9 AUG 29, 12:57 AM
update please
yellowstone SEP 09, 12:03 PM
I just read through the whole thread for the first time and I must say that I'm astonished. It's just a thing of beauty to see this project coming together. Congrats, Archie!
bubbajoexxx SEP 16, 12:47 PM
updates we need updates PLEASE
Sofa King SEP 16, 02:17 PM
Hi A,

What vehicle did you get the armrest? Is is the same width as the Fiero armrest?
Speedster OCT 06, 04:59 PM
Hi,
I'm Benoit from France, I follow your post, congratulation for your great work. I think your Miura body kit is derived from a Prova Design Miura kit because it has the same trouble with the windshield installation, it’s strange because Prova Design has molded an original Lamborghini Miura P400 S to make its molds in the 80’s
You may install taillights from a Fiat 850 Spider, they are identical on the Lamborghini Miura P400 & P400 S. These taillights are remanufactured : http://mrfiat.com/

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Archie OCT 13, 05:41 PM
We've ben working on a lot of stuff since I posted last.

I'll try to bringit up to date.

In Phase I of getting the upholstery done, a few days after my last post we packed up several of the interior parts to send them out for covering.

As you've seen a lot of these parts were fabricated from scratch. So a photo record & careful handling was in order......



















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Archie OCT 13, 06:06 PM
While waiting for the interior parts to return from the upholstery shop, it was back to the body work.

Here we are establishing the edges of the roof...







Here we are building up the flanges around the door openings so we have a flange that we can clip the weatherstripping onto....







The interior side panel of the doors didn't match up to the weather strip flange. For the weatherstrip seals to actually have a chance to work, the front of the insdie door panel had t be moved in 3/4 to 1".











Archie
Archie OCT 14, 11:57 AM
continuing......

Then we had to figure out how to get power roll up windows in the doors.

We had to figure out the geometry & hardware to make the windows in the doors roll up & down evenly, securely & reliably.

We needed the window to roll up along a line up the back inside edge of the door. The vertical height of the window opening is only about 2" lower than the vertical height of the body of the door. So we had to come up with window mounting & operating hardware that used as little vertical space as possible.

We decided to use Fiero power window hardware because we were going to have to heavily modify any "Kit" we might have bought & we had plenty of the Fiero parts so we could scrap a few sets of them without any big loss.

Here are a few pics of the mock-up. Locations & angles of the rails that the scissor arms ride in were very important to get the windows to ride up evenly & correctly. All this took time & experimentation. We moved them around quite a bit while we figured out how each changed affected the window movement.





Once we had figures out the details, we glassed in 2 mounting bars inside the door.





then we were able to bolt in the final mounting plates to the bars & make it all operational.















Archie

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Archie OCT 14, 12:31 PM
Then back to more bodywork.....













Working on somefinish work on the trunk/decklid area & establishing a flange for the trunk seal to clip onto....















Archie