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Number: 0822
From: asc4me
Date: Fri Apr 12, 2002  5:24 pm
Subject: Re: convertible top gap

Body:
Hey man, Sorry to rain on your parade but I have to go with sandy on
this one. I am a member of a Mustang club here in Dallas-Fort Worth
with roughly 1000 members. If you ask anyone of them what they would
do to my car as far as looks go everyone of them including myself
would say "not a damn thing". You own 1 of roughly 2200 of the most
perfect Fox body convertables ever made. The best thing about them is
that you dont have to do anything to make them special. They are
special anyways. I am a firm beliver that you have to do what you
want to make yourself happy, but there are other things you can do
besides 20 dollar decals and Cobra R's. Example.... I just upgraded
all of my shocks and struts to KYB gas self adjusting shocks and
struts....75 dollars=better ride. Other things that I plan on doing
are 373:1, gears Caster/camber plates, springs, exaust, throttle
body, fuel pump, plug wires, battery box, flex fan, ect..ect..ect.
You will notice that nothing is perminate and I am simply bettering
the performance of the vehicle. Sure it is not bone stock, but as far
as I am conserned you are making the car better than stock. Like I
said I dont try to tell anyone what to do with there cars I just
thought I might offer you another way of looking at it. anyways thats
my 2cents.

--- In ascmclaren@y..., "djmauro11361" <mauro@d...> wrote:
> okay every one,
> I got the low down on the top problem.
> I finally calmed down & called Topsonline about my gap
> problem.
> I spoke to victor ( the guy who sold me the top). I sent him pics
of
> the famous gap problem.He said: my gap is normal. A brand
> new top will do this. Canvas tops do need time to stretch
> because they have rubber inlays in-between the matirial.Give it
> about 2 to 3 weeks in the blazing sun and it should stretch
> out.Infact since I spoke to him about a week ago most of the top
> is flush with the trunk and its been about 2 weeks since I had it
> on.He also said..If it doesn't stretch out by then,take it to the
guy
> who installed the top and have him do a bow adjustment!!!(that's
> the last tall rail on our tops). adjust it only a 1/4 of an inch
> back,but only a little because over time the top will stretch
allot!!
> He was very convincing of his know hows.I also questioned him
> about this mysterious 2 sized tops everyone was talking
> about.He knows about the 2 sizes and said that if I had the
> wrong top on my car it would actually be to BIG!!!not to small.
> He also stated that If Iam not happy with the outcome of my top,
> he'll send me a new one at no charge ,even if its 4 or 5 months
> from now.
> He also new that I was going to post this message up that if
> anyone had any questions and I mean any questions! to e-mail
> him @ vicsauto@i...
> He also has a product coming out in about a month to protect
> our tops from getting ruined.
> I posted some pics of my pony with the new top its in the my top
> folder.One is what it looks like now & one is what its going to
> look like in the future.
> I hope this info was useful.
> peace,
> mauro