Hardtop photos

[davidsea]

  Working on Spring cleanup and rigging - part of that will be installation of Arima hardtop supports on my SR19.  I've looked around the site and online and can't find any decent images of installed supports, showing how the factory placed them.   I'd rather have a good idea of exactly where they should be bolted on, rather than having to fill holes to cover my mistakes. 
   Does anyone have good pictures - or can take measurements - to help me on this project ?

[La-Z-Buoy]

In my experience, purchased 2 "take offs" from Defiance, I just held them up to the surfaces and tried to position them where the mounting surfaces were flush and marked and drilled. You may have to use washers/bushings to get them mounted without pulling the fiberglass at the side mount areas. Also, adding a small piece of backing material on the lower mounts helps spread the load. Think I used fender washers. The bars are very stiff and do not lend themselves to excessive bending.

[miruhai]

The screw broke on the other side and I wanted to re-enforce the connection point with a rail base.

[davidsea]

    miruhai:  Thank you!  Helps a lot, avoids disaster and re-do. 

[Tesoro]

If you need more I can send pics/measurements of mine on a 21 installed from factory.But they are really hand holds and not supports. The engineering is wrong for that. But they help.

[davidsea]

   Done deal! Thanks for help and  PM's.