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Old Dec 22, 2007 | 12:06 AM
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Question T-top installation???

Hey guys, I have a 1998 Chevrolet Camaro that I have had for 7 years. It's black on black, and I love the car to death, it was my very first car, the only problem is, it doesn't have T-Tops. I understand that subframe connectors will have to be installed to make up for structure loss, but is all of the support present for T-tops? Is the support the same for the Coupe as it is for the T-Top model?
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Old Dec 22, 2007 | 12:12 AM
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All 4th gen F-bodies were made T-Top cars, but for the coupe, they welded in to the two bars on either side. The subframes would help afterwards, but a t-top converted car would be structurally the same as an original T-Top car, therefore making the subframes not technically necessary
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Old Dec 22, 2007 | 04:07 AM
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It's an easy one day job. You need about $500 in parts and a dremel (some type of power saw for the big cuts makes the day go a LOT faster). Where are you located?
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Old Dec 24, 2007 | 01:51 AM
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watch out for the drimmel disk exploding. i had one explode and go all the way thru my cheek. bad bad bad deal. trip to the er for that was not cheep. if u use the dremmel use a face sheild as well.
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Old Dec 24, 2007 | 02:03 AM
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Did mine in a weekend, i put SFC in mine just because i got them for my birthday at the same time i was doing the conversion, the only thing i screwed up on was taking too much of the sail panel between the rear hatch and ttops, i sanded down too much behind the ttops and now there is a gap so i have some dyna-de-lite that i am going to fix it here and have it painted when i get my car repainted here in january.
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