Alloy window louvers

[mogul_x]

Gents,

At one of the past Abingdon meetings, I thought I saw a Stratos replica with alloy louvers over the rear windows instead of the usual fiberglass. As the fiberglass panel on mine is an exceptionally poor fit, I was hoping to find out whose car it was, or where they had their louvers made. I already spoke with Graham Bates, and he's pretty sure it wasn't anything he did.

Does this sound familiar to anyone at all? :confused:

[Chris J]

Scott

I know that Bob's car (the yellow ex Nico Stradale) has alloy rear louvres.
I think that Geoff Turton made them?

[Chris J]

Scott

As usual, we've been here before:

http://www.stratossupersite.com/forum/showthread.php?t=497&page=2&pp=15&highlight=geoff+turton

[mogul_x]

Thanks Chris! I spoke to Geoff - he only made the one set, and is willing to make additional sets at about the same price as before.

Does anyone know the current owner of the yellow car? Geoff couldn't recall exactly how he built the first set, and was hoping to get some photos of it to jog his memory.

If anyone else thinks they might be interested in a set, let me know. I'm going to ask Jeff Davison if he's still in the market - it's probably easier for Geoff Turton to do a few sets at once than one at a time.

[STR470S]

Scott,

I think Graham’s memory is going – he did do a set for me – though it was many years ago!

Not sure what Geoff’s set was like, but the way I did mine was to cut the fibreglass ends off then bond and rivet these back onto straight pieces of ali. The ali edges had returns of about 15mm so that the fibreglass ends could be slotted into. The returns are also used to accept captive nuts, which are used for fixing the spacing posts. Any fabricator with a folder should be able to make these up for you. The posts are just hollow alloy tubing which allow a countersunk bolt to pass through.

It is quite a fiddly job and a lot of hours, but I didn’t want that saggy look!

Cheers,
Chris

[John]

It would be far less costly to get a proper moulding done in the first place.
If the right stiffness was introduced into each louvre I'm sure it would be successful without impinging on the gap between the louvres.
Some thin polyurethane foam embedded in a double skinned louvre would do the trick.
It's on my list of to do jobs!