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MG Midget and Sprite Technical - Windbreak

As I don't fancy forking out a smillion-pounds on a ready made one, I'm planning on making a windbreak to go neatly inside my roll bar. I'm thinking of 4 or 6mm polycarbonate velcro'd in place. I remember a similar topic last year but can't find it in the archives.

Can anyone shed and light on whether or not its likely to work, pictures of one would be a brucey-bonus!

Nick

Nick, there has been a similar discussion on the midgetsprite Yahoo group over the last week or so. Someone over in the States was wanting to make or buy one.

I quite fancy one as well - must be getting soft!! I wondered if a fine black expamet mesh would work as well
Guy Weller

Be aware that, unless the bottom seals fairly well, they do not seem to be very effective. I bought one for my Midget. It now sits in my basement.
David "another unbeliever" Lieb
David Lieb

Hey David, I have one on the top shelf in the garage. It did not seem to make much difference for me either. Maybe if I had rolled up the windows?
Trevor-Jessie

I see, so it would have to go right down onto the rear shelf then would it? I was intending to stop it at around the height of the rear deck. i.e. bottom of the tonneau level.

Think I might make something out of plywood to test.

Nick

Shawn made something similar from a pair of tonneau sticks and some perspex!

SHAWN please post a pic!!
Mick - I have started painting!!!

Nick,
Mine was designed to rest on top of the top boot. It worked a bit better when I stuffed a long cushion into the top boot, but it turned into too much of a nuisance when you wanted to put the top up and it did not make enough of a difference to be worth it to me.
David "crewcut" Lieb
David Lieb

Saw one of these at G50 but was too over-awed by the whole occasion to take a pic. Would like one of these as well, since cruising at high speed with the roof off is uncomfortable (I'm thinking here of speeds allowed on some of the Autobahns). Maybe would also help fuel cons?

A
Anthony

Here is a superb example of how it should be done, including special tonneau, which clips to the frame and stops any backdraft


Geoff Mears (1970 Midget)

That's the one!

Thx
anthony

and here is my cheapskate version, utilising mgf windbreak, plus piece of perspex velcro-ed to the bottom of it. Works though...


Geoff Mears (1970 Midget)

based on Geoff's experience perhaps the answer is to sell the Midget and buy an MGF... ya wuss ;-)
David Smith(davidDOTsmithATstonesDOTcom

I made a perspex one especially to go to Gaydon with. It made the journey much more comfortable for the wife. I used 2mm perspex and fitted it behind the front bar. It is 30mm tall and shaped to the profile of the roll bar. I used four releasable tie wraps to hold it to the bar. I stiffened the bottom with a piece of 1/2 inch square wood. Cost me £14 for the perspex from B&Q. Ideally would be better with 4mm but that was a lot more expensive. I also tried a mesh screen supported by two carbon fibre rods. A bit Heath Robinson but effective.
You can just make it out (the perspex one)in this pic.

Steve


Steve Church

Funny, we were thinking just the same thing at the weekend, RE: hair being full of black crap.

Looks like yet another good reason to fit a rollbar...
Rich Amos (1330cc Blaze Red '72)

I made one out of polycarbonite hinged halfway up to allow to retreive items on the shelf. Velcoed to the roll bar. It works extremely well. If I had photos I would post them.
Col.
c pearce


ine did indeed use some tonneau sticks. I welded steel 'u' section along them, and siliconed some 5mm lexan in to the 'u' section. I cut the lexan in half, and a small piece of 'u' section joins them at the top. They pull in 2 to fit in the boot. They do make a huge difference - especially with the windows up. The sticks rattle a bit though. The first time I tried them was to a Silverstone MG event. The event used to be the same day as the British Moto GP. I was a little concerned that the lexan may come unstuck and behead one of the thousands of bikers on the M1!
Shawn

Never really felt a need to install one. I like having my hair blowing in the wind. Bcekie usually wears a hat and loves the car too. Hasn't complained yet. I'll spend my money on the rust holes instead.
S.A. Jones

hair blowing in the wind means that your ears are suffering damage though. I have riden motorbikes, and driven open cars. The whistling does not stop when I shut my eyes at night.
Shawn

Shouldn't really drive with your eyes shut Shawn, even when it is dark. Try switching the headlights on!
Guy Weller

I shut my eyes in Brum when you nearly killed that pedestrian, then got rammed up the rear by tarq's! Ok, it was a glancing blow, but it could have been worse.
Shawn

Shawn I dunno about the ear damage bit. The 15 year old stainless steel exhaust system that had numerous exhaust leaks is probibly a bigger issue. Now that i have a maniflow system in, it might be a bigger issue.
S.A. Jones

Windbreakers?
Ya bunch of hairdressers, you will all go to hell for having a windbreaker!

Im with David Smith: why dont you just buy a mgf!

Nick Durham, when i come over to Yorkshire in August we need to have a talk and if you will not listen i will not hesitate to slap some sence in to you...windbreaker... phuu

I will stop now before i get unfriendly but its a disgrase... no, i said i would stop.

I have spoken!
A de Best

I think the windbreaks work really well and do make high speed top down motoring a more pleasing experience. You do not feel so numb after a few hours of 70MPH plus driving

The MGF item fits really well inside the roll over bar. I don't like velco so I made brackets for mine.


Bob (robert) Midget Turbo

The car is not tiring to drive at all, the noise wears you down though.
Shawn

in my defence it was guy that rammed up my rear! I was blameless!
Tarquin

And I always thought that a WINDBRAKER was a garment with sleeves and a zipper up front.
Sandy
Sandy Sanders

sorry, seems a lifetime ago. hope alex is well.
Shawn

Saw this on the web but know nothing about it


G Lazarus

Shawn,
Tarquin is, for this once, quite right. It was not his fault at all, but the suicidal Brummie who suddenly decided to hurl themselves in front of his car. I suppose if you are a Brummie you don't have much reason not to leap in front of a car.

But after all that - I agreed with you about hearing damage - I am sure my 25 -years of tinnitus stems from too much time spent on motorcycles without any thought of using earplugs. Or maybe it was The Who, Stones and Pink Floyd concerts. Anyway on anything more than just short journeys now I use earplugs. Although for me the hearing damage is done, it still makes driving itself much less tiring.
Guy Weller

You must have been at this performance then Guy. :-)
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=nr81olQ1ibk
Bob (robert) Midget Turbo

difficult saying he is right though isn't it?
Shawn

Go on Shawn you can do it. :-)
That is not so difficult, however what may be difficult to stomach would be, he is right again LOL. Either way I don't actually care. :-) but do enjoy the "crack"
Bob (robert) Midget Turbo

This thread was discussed between 28/05/2008 and 02/06/2008

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