Wind Blocker Query

Nicky Patchett · Post by **Nicky Patchett** » Tue Feb 01, 2005 10:31 am

As the big trip down to Manfeild is coming up in only a couple of weeks I am
wondering if anyone has made (or had made for them) a perspecs (?) style
windblocker. I did see one on a car with the individual roll bars that looked
as though someone had designed it themselves.

I think my roll bar is a bit different to others I have seen so thought maybe
one of the standard/manufactured ones might not fit - does anyone know of a
website where I could maybe look at some options or advise where they had
theirs made and what sort of cost was involved - I'm in Auckland.

Thanks

Nicky Patchett

Colin Francis · Post by **Colin Francis** » Tue Feb 01, 2005 10:58 am

On Tue, 1 Feb 2005 10:31:45 +1300, you wrote:

As the big trip down to Manfeild is coming up in only a couple of weeks I am wondering if anyone has made (or had made for them) a perspecs (?) style windblocker. I did see one on a car with the individual roll bars that looked as though someone had designed it themselves.

I think my roll bar is a bit different to others I have seen so thought maybe one of the standard/manufactured ones might not fit - does anyone know of a website where I could maybe look at some options or advise where they had theirs made and what sort of cost was involved - I'm in Auckland.

Thanks

Nicky Patchett
Conference Sales Co-ordinator
DDI (09) 526 3046
Fax (09) 570 0155
conf@waipunahotel.co.nz
www.waipunahotel.co.nz

Nicky.

I just made a pattern of the area inside the style bars and got a plastic outfit
to cut them to measure . Cost me about 30 bucks from memory. i then made some
stainless steel clips which go around the bar and bolt onto the acrylic.

You will see the brackets at the top of the bars on page 2 (top picture 0 at

http://miata.cardomain.com/memberpage/684887

Col

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Nicky Patchett · Post by **Nicky Patchett** » Tue Feb 01, 2005 12:42 pm

Thanks heaps Colin,

Yours looks very professional, maybe it was your car I saw at the gymkhana?? A friend has given me the name of a company in GI that I will check out tonight, hopefully if I print off your pic as an example they may be able to do something along the same lines.

Cheers,
Nix

Mike Jolley · Post by **Mike Jolley** » Tue Feb 01, 2005 6:53 pm

check ross at mx5mart,mine works fine.. mike

SLYDIT · Post by **SLYDIT** » Wed Feb 02, 2005 4:08 pm

Hi Nicky,
my car has style bars and a D.I.Y perspex wind blocker
on it, its held to the bars with velcro straps that
loop around the bars, if you made a cardboard template
of what youd like to have im sure you could get a
plastics place to make it up for no more than $50 .
See my website below for a pic of it, (page 4 i think)

Nicky Patchett · Post by **Nicky Patchett** » Thu Feb 03, 2005 7:12 am

Hi Glenn,

I was thinking along the same lines as you with the velcro straps to hold the blocker in place. I went to a plastics outfit in Glenn Innes and they measured up a HUGE windblocker (which having thought about now is probably a bit OTT)- don't want to feel like a goldfish

I don't have the style bars, just a big-ass black padded rollbar with a diagonal bar running through the middle of it - which is making it a bit more difficult to work out. I think I will have to do some research on what other people have done when I get to the big gathering.

Excellent website and thanks for the advice.

Nix

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