Windshield Question

SP01715 · #1 (**permalink**) 02-08-2007, 10:21 AM

FYI: Went to Hillbank yesterday and compared my windscreen to the older and newer version and it does not match either one. Apparantly there was more than just the two windscreen types made for these cars or my windscreen is a one off design. Everyone is confused right now as to why my windscreen is different, but Lance is taking care of it so that is the good news. Just wanted to let everyone know in case they run into the same problem.

RedBarchetta · #2 (**permalink**) 02-08-2007, 01:35 PM

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...but Lance is taking care of it so that is the good news.

Too bad most of the SPF bashers will never see this. That's right...THE OWNER of the company is taking care of the issue. Now that's what I call customer service.

Hope you get it all squared away soon.

-Dean #747

SP01715 · #3 (**permalink**) 02-08-2007, 05:44 PM

Yep Lance stepped up for me and even waited at his place late last night for me to drop the car off. Said he would have a windscreen made to fit my car if he had to.

The windshield on my car is actually a different shape than the other windscreens, and is wider at the bottom that the new replacement one that I purchased. Shims would actually make the problem worse because of this. My windscreen actually has a different shape than the rollers and cars we compared it to (New, Old and CSX). I was told that the first 150 cars were each hand made but after that there is two types. Mine seems to have a different shape than the two known types, and looks like it was made that way on purpose. It's a mystery as of now...

Semper Fi · #4 (**permalink**) 02-13-2007, 10:32 AM

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Originally Posted by SP01715

Yep Lance stepped up for me and even waited at his place late last night for me to drop the car off. Said he would have a windscreen made to fit my car if he had to.

The windshield on my car is actually a different shape than the other windscreens, and is wider at the bottom that the new replacement one that I purchased. Shims would actually make the problem worse because of this. My windscreen actually has a different shape than the rollers and cars we compared it to (New, Old and CSX). I was told that the first 150 cars were each hand made but after that there is two types. Mine seems to have a different shape than the two known types, and looks like it was made that way on purpose. It's a mystery as of now...

I went to Superformance with Chris (SPO1715) and the winshield does NOT match the "older" or "newer" style winshields!!! We placed the original SPF winshield (the broken one that came on the car) on top of both of the winshields that day. We realized that every winshield has to be "fitted" to the car with adjustments--but the winshield was different. We were all puzzled.

Lance is AWESOME. He realized that there was a problem and said to Chris, "no matter what has to be done, I will take care of it". That is customer service!! I have always liked Lance since the day I met him, but my respect for him went up another "notch".

Gerard

ROMM · #5 (**permalink**) 02-21-2007, 08:45 PM

Well I recently got a new center bracket (the L shaped bracket, not the rod bracket) from Finishline, but it does not fit my car. The other day, I took my car for a spin and noticed that now my windshield is cracked on the passenger side. This is a brand new windshield installed in December, and I have only put about 400 miles on the car since. I don't know what to do now. I don't know which bracket should be on my car, and if that is why the windshield cracked (not having a bracket). I was reading on SCOF where the center rod bracket was possibly causing the windshields to crack. I am wondering if a plexiglass solution is the way to go...

Semper Fi · #6 (**permalink**) 03-01-2007, 07:46 PM

I was "told" that the finishline's winshields don't fit all that well on SPF cars. Just going by what I heard somebody told me.

PJS50 · #7 (**permalink**) 03-02-2007, 10:55 AM

Semper,
If done/shimmed "right", I have seen the Finishline glass work very well on an SPF (early car; #245-ish)..
The only thing that had to be changed was the locations of the side "hooks" which the soft top buckles grab on to.. Otherwise, it looked like "factory SPF"...

1715,
Did you get you windshield situation all figured out?
When you wrote: "The windshield on my car is actually a different shape than the other windscreens, and is wider at the bottom that the new replacement one that I purchased. Shims would actually make the problem worse because of this."

It seems to me that this is exactly the type of situation where shims WOULD work... If you mount the new windshield "legs" to the inboard side of the under-dashboard brackets, then you would shim the "gap" between the bracket and the windshield leg... Right?
Were your original windshield legs bolted to the outboard side of the mounting bracket? If so, those brackets themselves are only probably 1/8" thick, so if you took the new windshield legs (which you said are @1/2" narrower than the originals; meaning they are 1/2" closer together) and mounted them to the inboard side of the mounting brackets, you really only have about 1/4" (total gap) to make up between the 2 brackets and 2windshield legs which means your shims are actually only @ 1/8" thick per side (1/2" minus @1/4" total for the thickness of the 2 mounting brackets because you are mounting the new legs to the inboard side of the bracket instead of the outboard side like before) right?

The ONLY (real) differences between the early car windshields and the later car windshields involves:
1). The height of the actual glass itself, as if measured from the top-center of the glass to the bottom-center of the glass (as measured along the surface of the glass itself).
2). The bottom, cowl following "curve" that the bottom windshield frame rail makes. The early cars had a "flatter, larger radius" curve to them. The later cars had a "taller cowl" so that Big Blocks could fit under the hood better, and thus have a "sharper, smaller radius" curve to them...
Besides this, the 2 generations windshields are essentially "identical" in terms of overall width and shape...
There is ALWAYS some shimming to do when mounting them however....

ROMM · #8 (**permalink**) 03-02-2007, 10:56 AM

My windshield was installed at Anthem in Phoenix, AZ, and I talked to a guy named Charlie. I think the windshield is defective, but I think he disagrees. Is there someone at Superformance that I can talk to about this? The car number is SPF1988.