Getting the gap just right took a lot of work and then some, but now I am pretty happy. Also taking a break from fiberglass over the winter, because soon it will be too cold for the epoxy to cure properly. Yay!
Glassing the windows in. The belts and suspenders approach, hoping for extra strength as well as a nice smooth finish in the end… so following the fiberglass ribbon, I used some thinner material to cover some of the rougher transitions before using micro.
Back to fiberglass hell… laying up the windscreen fairing. Hold on, this is actually the fun part, the making everything in the workshop dusty again is following this step…
Glued in the Alcantara which lines the cabin top. Used spray adhesive from 3M after a nice guy from sury.ch recommended this product for my application. Good stuff! Left the sides uncovered for now, just wanted to glue the top to avoid having to do that after the top is no longer upside down… When finished, I folded the remaining piece of fabric and covered all in trash bags for protection. Ready to mount the cabin top!
Did not want to spend 2 grand on the prefab solution, also, I intended to: leave as much headroom as possible by narrowing the console between the front seats fit a GPS antenna with a ground plane inside the console just behind the doors have the air for the overhead get into the console below the bulkhead not through it fit a bilge blower as a ground ops fan, no a/c needed on most days here, but getting some outside air in sure is nice learn a thing or two about fiberglass on a non-structural...