Aero Screens

[rob iles]

Helmet always on Blats  

Few years back  took the old man out for a quick pootle about and gave him my skid  lid, got a few leaves in the face and they b****y well sting i can tell you  

Imagine in summer on a nice run you go down a recently stonechipped road, you feel like your being shot at  

Not worth chancing it

Always wear a skid lid with an Aeroscreen

[cleowuss]

My 2 pennys worth, in town under 30 no helmet anything else time for the lid as I won't risk my ugly mug   Plus the wind over 50mph makes my glasses move about

As to the legality I think its okay in an open topper but may be illegal in a tin top.

Richard

[Matt Seabrook]

For a road car a screen every time. For track or race car it's aero.

If aero on the road has to be a lid every time. It's just not worth risking a stone hitting you square in the face at 60mph.

The other thing is I'm ugly enough already I dont need any more problems with low fly objects catching me in the face and then rickashying and catching me in the wedding vegetables is not my idea of fun.

[Boney]

Owdo

low speed to the pub or a run with the missus wear a pair of gatorz, if going for a blat with chippo or Rob liles then helmet every time

Boney

[Young Pretender]

Are there readily available, interchangeable screen/aero screen kits, so that you can have the best of both worlds as it were?  I think Caterham have something like this.

[Tom Frankland (T3OMF)]

2 Scuttles and quick release clips.......  thats one of my projects over this winter

[D7PNY]

Helmet every time for me - Same reasons as those mentioned above.

Got a chip in a viser from a stone so that would have hurt like hell!

I also feel quite vulnerable on the road in the same way I would on a bike.  In these style of cars there is every possibility of your head coming into contact with the front of a car should the worst happen! I'd rather have the best protection possible.

Cheers,

Dave

[Dave Eastwood (Gadgetman)]

In theory it is possible to make a similar version of the Caterham type Rx00 aeroscreen, which wraps round the scuttle and uses a couple of the screen stanchion bolt holes to secure it at the sides. This is the sort of thing I was considering having a go at making.

However, during the course of refurbing my existing scuttle, (factory double bubble style aero was fitted, which has two bolts on top, and two at the sides of the scuttle), I've discovered a problem.

Caterham scuttles are Aluminium, the scuttle is strong enough to take the load of screen or aero, and of course doesn't move in the heat too much. Plus thanks to Arch etc, it's the right shape to begine with.

Westfield scuttles are none of these   Every structural bolt on the scuttle, (and none were excessively tightened) has at least some degree of star-cracking round it, even if only tiny. To be fair, some I'd never have noticed if I hadn't been extensively sanding and repolishing it. But the more you look at it, the more you see that with heat, (hot sunny days, I guess) and load, the grp has over time distorted to match the aero screen. I presume it would be a similar situation if I'd been going the other way, and it would have distorted to match the windscreen.

I may still have a go, but my current feeling is that once you take one off, no matter how careful you've been, the surface below will be poor round the mounting points at least.

In short, annoyingly as at the last count, they're over £250 each, but I think two scuttles is probably the only way to go if you want something neat!

EtA

Took me an extra week of glass wor, sanding and polishing over the two I'd planned to try and straighten out the distortions sufficiently.