Flip Front Bonnet

Pete&Matt · Post by **Pete&Matt** » Wed Feb 06, 2008 10:12 pm

This only really applies to people who have done a flip front!!

We have cut all the front ages ago and are now fixing the bonnet in place. We have temporaily placed it all with the correct gaps etc with ally strips and hot glue. Now we have a gap all the way round the bonnet. Tim said he pokes fibreglass matting in the gap with resin and then puts filler on the top. There seems to be a lot of room to have to fill though with matting.

What have you guys done on yours? Did you fibreglass from the back aswell?

Cheers

Matt

Antnicuk · Post by **Antnicuk** » Wed Feb 06, 2008 11:51 pm

i have cut mine off and will be fitting it back again soon. When you say bonnet, do you mean the whole front or just the actual little bonnet piece? I am not to sure what you mean about hot glue and filling gaps, can you explain any more?

Pete&Matt · Post by **Pete&Matt** » Thu Feb 07, 2008 12:00 am

its just the bonnet piece. What we have done is stuck strips of alumminium on the body and the bonnet panel to hold it in place, the same that is recommended with the doors

Post by **hearbear** » Thu Feb 07, 2008 11:44 am

I sure on Tims orange RT he told me he pushed glass down the gap between the bonnet and surround area and then he bonds from below with 6" strips at intervals round the bonnet to hold in place but would allow you to remove the bonnet at a later date.

Pete&Matt · Post by **Pete&Matt** » Thu Feb 07, 2008 2:58 pm

thats basically what he told us. But you would have to use a hell of a lot of glass to fill the gap all round!

Post by **hearbear** » Thu Feb 07, 2008 3:00 pm

Pete&Matt wrote:thats basically what he told us. But you would have to use a hell of a lot of glass to fill the gap all round!

Hi he didn't fill the gap he left it open to still look like a bonnet. The glass he stuffed down was to hold it so he could turn the filp over to bond from the under side.

Pete&Matt · Post by **Pete&Matt** » Thu Feb 07, 2008 3:04 pm

On his demo car he was doing, he was leaving the line around the bonnet, but filling in the gap. The pic below shows what he was doing

Nissanman · Post by **Nissanman** » Thu Feb 07, 2008 4:23 pm

Yup - that's how mine came from him, the gap was left all round the bonnet, just the odd bit of glass to hold it in place, so you can still see the original bonnet outline. These are the only pics I have with me here, they might help a bit.... but we have radically changed the bonnet anyway....

Sorry, second one is rather blurred.

Post by **hearbear** » Thu Feb 07, 2008 4:25 pm

Hi again

That is different to the first RT he showed us. As you said that would take a lot of filling. That is one of the reasons I rebonded my front back on and I am going for the conventional bonnet, I just thought the line across the top where the bonnet goes to the windscreen looks wrong, you would have to cut the bonnet across to match the line from the flip front cut and the it would start to become a major job. I am now glad I have put it back on as on the classic it (in my eyes) looks better.

George