Cobra4B

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Made a custom visorless trim panel for the yellow car so I could delete the visors and have it look OEM... swapped it into the red car today. Makes for a much more open cockpit when your tall as it increases you line of sight, also makes for a more open feeling w/ the top down b/c the visors dont block any of your view of the sky.

Cole Train

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That's awesome man. How exactly did you do that?

Cobra4B

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Took the stock piece and stripped the vinyl off. Then filled the holes with epoxy and sanded smooth. Then took it to a local upholstery shop and had them re-wrap it.

Cole Train

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ah cool looks good. Did you post this up over at Corvetteforum too? i know you frequent there as well but didn't see it

Cobra4B

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Nah... Ive been perma-banned there for over a year now.

Cole Train

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really? for what, too many Z06 enthusiast thinking it's crazy to convert a Z06 to a targa? i've wondered how hard it would be to add the Z06 looking roof to my coupe

Cobra4B

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Forum member AJG1915 did exactly that... he converted his coupe to a FRC hardtop.... its a lot of work to do it correctly.

I got into it w/ a moderator over his reasons for locking certain threads. That put me on the **** list. Then I put up a link to a **** site in OT as a joke in one of my own threads.... they axed me for that.

Cole Train

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LOL they are too strict. I rarely visit there much. I think it would be sweet to convert mine to a FRC roofline with the targa. I wonder if it would be easier doing that then converting a Z06 to a targa. looks cool with no top on a FRC roofline

Cobra4B

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No.... it's more work to swap to the FRC roof becuase not only do you have to customize the FRC roof, you have to make all the chassis changes to the upper tub structure on the coupe to accept the FRC roof and trunk lid etc.

BlownVette 2001

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Yeah, it's a lot of work. Basically have to strip the car down from the roof back.

Replace the upper tub, and lots of hardware on the lower tub (speakers, latches, RF controller), etc ...

Also need rear fenders as the coupe and FRC's are different. Quite the job and very expensive from a parts and paint perspective.

btw, I am AJG1915 on CF, if you look me up over there you can see some pictures of the conversion.