question on convert doors??

madmaxin22 · Post by **madmaxin22** » Tue Nov 08, 2005 5:43 pm

will the doors off the 90 mclaren i just bought fit all the regular fox convertibles???

Post by **negusm** » Tue Nov 08, 2005 6:03 pm

doors yes, glass no

The glass was specially made so that the windshield could be raked back an extra 20 degrees.

And as such, the glass would be very valuable to an asc owner I should think.

madmaxin22 · Post by **madmaxin22** » Tue Nov 08, 2005 6:06 pm

THANK YOU

bryan · Post by **bryan** » Tue Nov 08, 2005 7:31 pm

So has anyone ever had to replace the door glass? If so, what did you do? Thanks, -Bryan

Sandy · Post by **Sandy** » Tue Nov 08, 2005 7:33 pm

Hank has them, right & left sides.

Post by **negusm** » Tue Nov 08, 2005 7:35 pm

bryanoekel wrote:So has anyone ever had to replace the door glass? If so, what did you do? Thanks, -Bryan

Call Hank in Florida if you need a replacement.

www.ascmclaren.com

Cutting normal Ford vert safety glass and getting it to not shatter, would not be an easy task. It would need to be heated, cut and then reheated.

-Mike

bryan · Post by **bryan** » Tue Nov 08, 2005 9:27 pm

Luckily I don't need a replacement right now. I just always like to pick your brains so if - god forbid - the time came when something happened, I'd know what to do.

Post by **negusm** » Tue Nov 08, 2005 9:37 pm

We had a thread on this a while back. It can be cut (chopped cars have it done) but it needs to be done a special way.

To do it, it needs to be untempered (heated to take the stress out of the glass), cut and then retempered (heated to put the stress back in).

Reading about fish tanks...which are also tempered glass, there are places that cut them or drill holes in them. They do it extremely slowly and seem to not need to heat the glass. Considering fish tanks need to withstand mucho stress, it seems that may work....

However, as somebody who tried to slowly, carefully drill a tiny hole in my wife's tempered glass cooking pot lid to let steam escape, I would never try it again. I got the hole through the glass. Set the lid down...my wife was saying how that would be nice to have and she touched it and it EXPLODED.

-Mike

madmaxin22 · Post by **madmaxin22** » Wed Nov 09, 2005 1:29 am

i'll be selling the glass out of my doors once i get to that point...