It must be an odd feeling drilling and then cutting a hole in the
roof...once you start you are pretty much committed.  Looks like a very good
job so far.  I'm not so sure you picked the best summer for steady sunshine.

BT
On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 2:02 PM, Alistair Bell <albell@shaw.ca> wrote:

> I had to drive a friend in from the airport with the van and its big hole
> in the roof (the luggage rack was on). Boy is the "sunroof " nice. No
> buffeting, not as noisy as you would imagine. We mapped out where the air
> was ducking in, and it seemed to curl in around 2/3 of the way back of the
> front edge of the hole. I'm guessing the luggage rack would have affected
> that flow.
>
> BTW the friend I was driving with is my partner in crime of making water
> tunnels/flumes. So between both of us we can come up with a butt-load of
> sketchy fluid dynamic answers to many questions :)
>
> alistair
>
>
> On 2011-07-25, at 1:06 PM, craig cowan wrote:
>
> > yes, those sunroof ones rock!
> > : )
> >
> > -Craig
> > '85 SUNROOF GL turned westy
> > '87 SUNROOF Syncro
> >
> >
> > On Sat, Jul 23, 2011 at 6:14 PM, Alistair Bell <albell@shaw.ca> wrote:
> >
> >> Finally, after lots of procrastination, I've cut the pop top hole in my
> >> syncro tin top. It sure lets in a lot of light, those sunroof vanagons
> must
> >> be great.
> >>
> >> I hope to get the pop top on the van tomorrow, then do the edge trimming
> >> etc.
> >>
> >> I'll post pics of the hole on my blog ( http://shufti.wordpress.com/)
> >> later this evening.
> >> alistair
> >>
>