My Wife’s 88 T-Top Chop-Top LS4 Build (Page 6/73) fieroguru JUN 20, 08:05 PM My $$$ is that he moved the lower attachment points for the A-pillars forward. With his window selection he was going to have to build a new lower windshield base anyway, so why not move the bottoms of the A-pillars. This would allow the t-top section to remain essentially stock and the needed length change happens at the front. Here is a comparison pic between his lowered t-top and an old stock height parts chassis. qwikgta JUN 20, 09:26 PM quote Originally posted by jscott1: I totally get what you are saying, but from the posted pic the t-top looks like the example on top, which is the same as a stock T-top. I can't speak for Mike, but on my chop top t-top the windshield frames were cut down such that the "A" pillars were shorter. This required a cut down windshield. I'm not sure exactly how Mike did it. I agree. Pic's do show that!!!! Thats what I was thinking too, If the top was chopped old school, it would make sence. Rob F355spider JUN 21, 01:11 PM Ok while you guys try to make sense of it. I will give you a hint; I never try to do that. I just look at it and then do it. It is a lot simpler to just do it to me. All the pictures and angles and cad drawings are just not how I do it. I am moving on to the windshield. The new headlights should be in any day so I will be able to start making a new hood and windshield tray. I just hope I get away from work a little this weekend. skuzzbomer JUN 21, 01:13 PM If you have to come up with a new tray, what kind of solution are you planning for the anti-decapitation pins? F355spider JUN 22, 08:40 AM quote Originally posted by skuzzbomer: If you have to come up with a new tray, what kind of solution are you planning for the anti-decapitation pins? I put the window in last night for a test fit with my wife. The chop was easier than what this will be. The guys on the kit car forum said it fit the opening. Not the case for me. I can stick my fingers through the gap at the top center and at the bottom of the A pillars. I was trying to talk my wife into just putting a stock windshield in the car. She looked at me and said If not this you would be doing something else so just fix it. This was something she and I always talked about when we had the silver chop and said the next one would have it. My plan is to move all the hardware forward cut the hood and shorten it and build the curve around the windshield in it then cut out for the headlights. The windshield hits right were the center latch is at. At this point I am not sure I like it. I know when done on the Ferrari kit cars it looks great. I'm not sure about the Fiero it makes the top look short from front to back. It might also be having it at the laid back angle. Time will tell. That was a very good question. jscott1 JUN 22, 05:24 PM CAn you give us a glimpse of what it would look like? The peanut gallery can tell you what we think it would look like. It sounds nice in theory. Boogaloo JUN 22, 06:29 PM So am I to believe it can't be done like the regular chops as Archie had said ?. skuzzbomer JUN 22, 06:37 PM quote Originally posted by Boogaloo: So am I to believe it can't be done like the regular chops as Archie had said ?. It can be done (clearly)... but there's not so much room for error. The issue F355 is facing now is the windscreen being from a different car. There's always issues with pioneering - maybe the t-chop plus the alternate windshield would've been best done separately. Either way, he'll figure it out. qwikgta JUN 22, 06:48 PM WAS this a CJB t-top car? jscott1 JUN 22, 08:33 PM quote Originally posted by skuzzbomer: It can be done (clearly)... but there's not so much room for error. The issue F355 is facing now is the windscreen being from a different car. There's always issues with pioneering - maybe the t-chop plus the alternate windshield would've been best done separately. Either way, he'll figure it out. Mike is so talented he doesn't even have to think about what he's doing, so he just does it... but for the rest of us, I find it almost impossible to believe that the t-top chop top can be done with the stock windshield. The windshield frame on my t-top chop top was about 3 to 4 inches shorter than stock. I just don't see how you could fit a stock windshield and a stock t-top frame on a lowered roof. Something has to give somewhere.