My homemade roof

[team-longtrack]

Here's my home made roof,
3/8" abs plastic.(needed 2 4x8 sheets, with lots of waste.)
Some pipe clamps
Stainless hardware
Alum H channel

Put the sheet in my buddies brake, and heated it with 3 heat guns at once, until it would bend, in order to bend the front visor. The rear corners were heated and bent by hand.

Total cost $125. And very little work really

 

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[GlockMeister]

Here's my home made roof,
3/8" abs plastic.(needed 2 4x8 sheets, with lots of waste.)
Some pipe clamps
Stainless hardware
Alum H channel

Put the sheet in my buddies brake, and heated it with 3 heat guns at once, until it would bend, in order to bend the front visor. The rear corners were heated and bent by hand.

Total cost $125. And very little work reallyView attachment 43589View attachment 43590View attachment 43591View attachment 43592

Nice work. Looks good.

 

[pct]

Welcome and Nice work on the top

 

[Jshell3]

That looks fantastic! Esp the corners!

 

[trigger]

I thought about messing with plastic on mine but it's just not in my comfort zone. I even own a brake but still thought I'd end up butchering it. Nice job longtrack!

 

[team-longtrack]

I thought about messing with plastic on mine but it's just not in my comfort zone. I even own a brake but still thought I'd end up butchering it. Nice job longtrack!

It took lots of heat to get that to bend!! But it wanted to bend nice and straight, on its own, so that helped. We actually clamped a section of PVC pipe in the fence, so that the fence Edge didn't dig in the plastic when I got hot

 

[SFC]

Nice!

 

[Delton]

Awesome looking! A brake is next on my toy list. I've pressed my luck with the wife last 6 months so it may wait a while lol.

 

[CumminsPusher]

Very nicely done!

 

[swsebek]

Real nice work

 

[moparornocar]

Very nice! I'll take one whenever you're ready!

 

[team-longtrack]

I may get another sheet, and redo that rear section. So that those dog dog-ear Corners match the Contour of the cage better. That was kind of an oversight, the rear panel is cut square, those Corners shrunk iin when I bent them

 

[zin01]

Man that looks awesome. Good job. And nice saving some

 

[team-longtrack]

Very nice! I'll take one whenever you're ready!

I thought about making them, shipping would kinda suck though

 

[Feucht]

Where did you get the abs sheets?

 

[moparornocar]

Enough left over for a back panel?

 

[zin01]

Wow very nice and $125 to boot. That ain't bad at all. Sure beats what I paid for the Honda roof.


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[strongbuilt]

I did mine outta thin mild steel and inserted some tinted hardcoat lexan, I really like the way it turned out but man was it a lot of work..

 

[ToddACimer]

Both roofs look good but I think I'd miss my roof tree slider. The factory roof smooth and radius'd edge wrap is hard to beat when you're stuck in tight places and the upper cage makes contact with trees and branches.

 

[GlockMeister]

Both roofs look good but I think I'd miss my roof tree slider. The factory roof smooth and radius'd edge wrap is hard to beat when you're stuck in tight places and the upper cage makes contact with trees and branches.

Yessir! Makes a great pivot point.