{"id":2840,"date":"2010-03-07T15:58:32","date_gmt":"2010-03-07T21:58:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/?p=2840"},"modified":"2015-02-06T16:05:48","modified_gmt":"2015-02-06T22:05:48","slug":"15-2-2-window-trim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/2010\/03\/07\/15-2-2-window-trim\/","title":{"rendered":"15.2.2 Window Trim"},"content":{"rendered":"
This entry is part 4 of 9 in the series 15 - Interior<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div>

The kit comes with interior trim pieces for the windshield and rear windows. Apparently, these were made from molds that don’t exactly match the windows. Which means that they require a lot of work to get them to fit and even then, they don’t. So I decided (on the advice of other builders) to make my own. <\/span><\/p>\n

Here’s the right rear window. The plexiglass is covered so it doesn’t get scratched during building.<\/span><\/p>\n

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I covered the window area with duct tape. Here’s the right rear window.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Then I covered the edge with four layers of BID.<\/span><\/p>\n

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This is the windshield with the layups around the edge.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Top is the factory left rear window trim and bottom is mine.<\/span><\/p>\n

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In the middle is my one-piece windshield trim and the two-piece factory trim. The windshield trim doesn’t need to be one piece but it’ll be easier to trim it to fit than try to make it bigger.
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This entry is part 4 of 9 in the series 15 - Interior<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div>

The kit comes with interior trim pieces for the windshield and rear windows. Apparently, these were made from molds that don’t exactly match the windows. Which means that they require a lot of work to get them to fit and … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"series":[39],"class_list":["post-2840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-7","series-15-interior"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2840","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2840"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2840\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2847,"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2840\/revisions\/2847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2840"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=2840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}