Building a Pluriel Hardtop

Completed the first drive test today. Hardtop stayed in place, no wind noise ( in fact it is more quiet than the soft top). There are some slight rattles as the chassis flexes over bumps, I am guessing that this is caused by track washer bounce. I will pull out the track slider cabinet nut ends and put a dab of epoxy on the Cabinet nut shaft and the washer, this will lock them together and eliminate any rattle on flex, hopefully. The back up plan is to put a thin rubber washer on the track facing side of the washer, assuming there is room to squeeze it it. I sprayed it with the garden hose and no leaks to report.

Great work. Thank you for sharing your design with us,

As of today the hardtop is complete. I finished spraying the wrap coating, and the internal headliner has now been installed. My plan to stop the rattles work just fine, with the track washers epoxied to the Cabinet nut barrels - no more rattle. I also installed the original softtop rear spoiler, on the back edge of the hardtop, it looks factory now.

I have attached the last photos. Thank you for following along and I hope this inspires others to go to a removable hardtop, if your softtop is no longer doing the job and you still want the freedom of being able to reconfigure the Pluriel as designed.

Just wanted to put up a couple of final photos, showing the rear window assembly integrated with the hardtop. As you can see from the photos it all came together pretty well. I only have one mod I want to do, which is to rig up a switch on the dash, to release the tailgate locks.

So that is all. Thanks for watching.
GD