Rod
If you want to fiddle long enough, the car can be made weather tight.
After replacing rubber, window channels, tweeking and adjusting, the top
and side windows are weather tight. The windows don't bow out below 75
mph. The door seals still leak leaving my right leg damp but this is
fixable. I also have the removable hard top which doesn't seal nearly as
well and amplifies engine noise. The heater works great down to an
ambient temp of 35 - 40.
Eric
rebean@CCGATE.HAC.COM wrote:
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> Erik wrote:
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> >The type 26 cars have different side windows, and a different top.
> >I have never driven one of these earlier cars on the road, for any
> >period of time (I'm planning to now, since I have acquired one
> >that is a runner!) so I have to disqualify my opinion, about the
> >weather protection of the S1 and S2 Elans.
>
> >What do any other people here have to say about this?
>
> Having had Type 26 Elans nearly exclusively, I can say that they are
> not weather
> tight. The Type 36 and later cars are much better. However, I
> believe that the
> 26 window/rubber seals arrangement can be improved by some slight
> modifications.
> I'll find out when I try out some ideas.
>
> Now as an early Elan owner, Erik, you may beat me to it so please pass
> on what
> you find out.
>
> For one thing, the windows bow out a little at speed.
>
> Rod
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