Werks Berg Lexan

[Trond Dahl]

Does anyone have lexan windows from Werks Berg installed? I would like to see some pictures of it a bit up close....
Preferably on a Ghia

[MeXX]

Hi

I can post U pix from windows installed on my ghia but they are home made.
Hope U got allready your vertigate 

MeXX

[richie]

Does anyone have lexan windows from Werks Berg installed? I would like to see some pictures of it a bit up close....
Preferably on a Ghia

we have used alot of them, but only on cars with window rubber still, he does spend alot of time getting the edges and finish done well

cheers richie

[Jonny Grigg]

What pictures do you need? I can take some today and post up. My race car uses the Weksberg lexan windows. A pain to fit but they look good. My car is a late beetle, not a Ghia though.

[Trond Dahl]

Hi

I can post U pix from windows installed on my ghia but they are home made.
Hope U got allready your vertigate 

MeXX

Yes I did :-) And it is definitely quality craftsmanship.

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Perhaps you can email me some pictures of your install of windows? trond(at)cal-look.no

Thanks

[Trond Dahl]

By the way, is it most common to use rivets or screws to mount Lexan windows?

[Trond Dahl]

What pictures do you need? I can take some today and post up. My race car uses the Weksberg lexan windows. A pain to fit but they look good. My car is a late beetle, not a Ghia though.

Thanks, I am interested to view some mounting details (screws vs. rivets) so yes please, but most importantly I would like to see solutions on Ghia around the door vs. 1/4 window :-) That´s where I will need to do something smart and there is no point in reinventing the wheel for me.
I´m thinking of bending a roundtube that I weld onto the door to hook the window up to, but there is an angle thing and some more details. So I would like to see how other people have solved this issue.

[MeXX]

Hi Trond

Here we go:
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I prefere rivets as don't make so much pressure to the lexan, they never come loose are easy to install (ever tried to install screws from the outside and nuts from the inside without going nuts    ) and they look nice.
The black washers on the inside are the waste if you remove an installed rivet by drilling them out so can U spell recycling .

MeXX

[MeXX]

some more pix:
 
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Do U like my door latch it's made of carbon kevlar and titanium (can U spell lightweight)


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MeXX

[Ragtop]

Man that car is immaculate!

[MeXX]

Dear Trond

Here are some pix U might be waiting for:

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MeXX

[Trond Dahl]

Thanks, I really like your solution :-)
What do you have in the end of the wire?

[BeetleBug]

Mexx,

As mentioned before, very nice car!

One question, are you actually allowed to grind down your roll cage welds?

-BB-

[MeXX]

Mexx,

As mentioned before, very nice car!

One question, are you actually allowed to grind down your roll cage welds?

-BB-

I'dont think it is allowed.
But You definitely should not do it!

On my main hoop it just looks like I did, because it was coated with 3 layers of powder coating and in this place I had just to repaint it and to gain the same look I applied just several layers of primer before finishing with the black paint.

MeXX

[Peter Shattock]

Trond,

Sorry to take a side step on your thread, but I've just been looking at the carbon work in Mexx's car!

Mexx very impressed with your standard or workmanship and the speed of your car. I hope to be at DDD this year if you are going again it would be nice to meet you and have a good look at your car.

I see you are heading towards an 8 second run, has that been done before with a non turbo flat four door car? Perhaps yours is the fastest nitrous door car already?

What ever very professional excellent looking car keep up the good work!

Peter

[Trond Dahl]

No worries Peter, I think you are just stating what a lot of us are thinking :-)
Mexx, and everyone else. Since I bought the old doors from Mexx I need a good similar door latch solution. Suggestions are welcomed.

[Trond Dahl]

Oh yeah, by the way... I did en up getting Werks Berg and they are very nice. I will need to do a bit of trimming but not much really.

[Erlend / bug66]

No worries Peter, I think you are just stating what a lot of us are thinking :-)
Mexx, and everyone else. Since I bought the old doors from Mexx I need a good similar door latch solution. Suggestions are welcomed.

Are the latches stock? I guess you want to keep it as light as possible. Is there any rules one needs to comply with? (for example opening from the outside etc)

[Trond Dahl]

Not sure I used the correct wording, but my new doors do not have the stock doorhandles so I want to do something similar to other race cars such like Mexx's.
An alternative is to modify the doors to take stock doorhandles, which will make it look more stock... but.. :-)
Time will tell what happens but I need options to consider during winter days :-)

[richie]

No worries Peter, I think you are just stating what a lot of us are thinking :-)
Mexx, and everyone else. Since I bought the old doors from Mexx I need a good similar door latch solution. Suggestions are welcomed.

Are the latches stock? I guess you want to keep it as light as possible. Is there any rules one needs to comply with? (for example opening from the outside etc)

Yes it must be able to be opened from inside and out,if you notice in the picture the window is cut in such a way as to allow one lever to be reached from inside and out saving weight

cheers richie

[Erlend / bug66]

Just start to mold some carbon fibre

[BeetleBug]

Is there any rules one needs to comply with? (for example opening from the outside etc)

Erlend, thats the beauty with building a race car. It's all in the rules.. It so simple that any idiot can do it 

[richie]

Is there any rules one needs to comply with? (for example opening from the outside etc)

Erlend, thats the beauty with building a race car. It's all in the rules.. It so simple that any idiot can do it 

who you calling an idiot?  

Oh its ok,I remembered, its a street car not a race car  



cheers richie

[Trond Dahl]

Richie, don't insult the intelligence it takes to change wheels on a street car without rules:-)

[Erlend / bug66]

He can't be calling me an idiot. I've got a pure, stock, no nonsense streetcar 

[Trond Dahl]

What does it make me, who asks stupid questions about something as easy as building a race car within a set of rules? 

[Erlend / bug66]

Haha.. Why not just copy most of the really lightweight porsches? Some kine of string solution.. REALLY light weight

[richie]

He can't be calling me an idiot. I've got a pure, stock, no nonsense streetcar 

Thats why its so slow then I thought it had a "1915cc race engine"  in it

cheers richie

[Erlend / bug66]

He can't be calling me an idiot. I've got a pure, stock, no nonsense streetcar 

Thats why its so slow then I thought it had a "1915cc race engine"  in it

cheers richie

It's not slow.. I'm the slow one 

The engine is a hybrid  part race, part streetish 

[richie]

What does it make me, who asks stupid questions about something as easy as building a race car within a set of rules? 

A wise man[well 2 actually] once said  FTG racing,
I say build it how you want it,then if it doesnt fit the rules bring it over here,most events it seems you can do what you like here,and in germany,both where T-shirts seem to be acepted as race clothing,if thats ok then everything else must be ok


cheers richie