VL convertable

[bensta]

this post was posted for "VLACS" member

""So bassically thats my idea...any questions?""






and i help him a "little" hehe

[bensta]

one word "O.M.F.G"
i love it

[VLACS]

WOW. the guy who did that is a champ..coff coff. what do you reckon all. should i do it. i will any way but. its nice to have support

[be_inspyred]

it doesnt look too bad i guess, but good luck trying to get that engineered !

[VS Omega]

Lots of work to strengthen the chassis I imagine, looks wicked though.. very different, imagine a VL ute convertible :|

[Trevor 062]

The Engineer here we have at work has ticked off a few convertibles & one requirement he suggests is to weld up the doors & run additional steel tubes under the floor. I can't see why you couldnt get it passed...Go for it looks trick..

[VRFURY]

have you seen the vl ute on this site..... i like that

[BigDaz]

imagine how light it would be after that lol

[vlv8vic]

imagine how light it would be after that lol

....or not.... with all the reinforcment required you wouldnt come out lighter, if anything much heavier.

[Stewart1000]

hrmm, you probabley will get it passed but it will take alot of work but it will be worth it and look great and sell for big $$$

[VLACS]

this is a ute. i couldnt think how to make it have a roof. i obviously dont want window frames so there wil be just windows. but they wouldnt fit together then a roof. maybe it would just have to be a show car...

[VRFURY]

thats the ute i was thionking of, sooo nice

[Stretchomatic]

u should head to the holden museum in echuca they have a holden convertible there that some apprentice engineers at holden made years ago, its pretty neat, but u couldnt see it working or anything, just for display...

[VLACS]

The Engineer here we have at work has ticked off a few convertibles & one requirement he suggests is to weld up the doors & run additional steel tubes under the floor. I can't see why you couldnt get it passed...Go for it looks trick..

by weld up the doors do you mean so they cant be opened?

[Boonie]

Cool idea! Just my impression is that you might want to change the angle of the windscreen and or shorten its height. Just thinking outloud.

[VL Berlina 5speed]

there is a 308 VH here in SA like that, ive seen him at the burnout comps many times but its not convertaable, just roof chopd off

[VLACS]

Cool idea! Just my impression is that you might want to change the angle of the windscreen and or shorten its height. Just thinking outloud.

yep i agree

[bensta]

we should get started on it. haha. wonder how much it end up costing

[Trevor 062]

by weld up the doors do you mean so they cant be opened?

You Got It Mate..

[VS Omega]

I imagine the ute would have better performance, without back seats, rear parcel shelf, anything like that but wouldn't you want some weight over the back wheels if using it for drag racing?

[vlv8vic]

the ute would have been based on a wagon id imagine, so without the roof yeah she'd be light in the arse. utes are painfully skiddable.

[NORTI]

damn it, I knew that would look so good... Ive been toying with this idea for a while... I couldnt bring myself to cut up a VLC so I have a VKC & it just might have to become a VKCC V6 .... hmmm damn project ideas...


On welding the doors I was looking to weld back doors, possibly removing them altogether? & then lengthing fronts? I know from limo work about putting rods in door frames, floor etc... bit of work I have cut out for me... :b:



D.

[Stewart1000]

yeah thats a great idea, take out the rear doors and lighten the front but how can you lighten the front?
your gonna want to make sure you got a really good car to start out with, little or no rust so it doesnt end up costing way too much

[VLACS]

i have no rust....but im not cutting up my car

[Trevor 062]

Buy a shitter for under $500 bucks & play with that , before you start chopping up a decent vehicle.