Chuck I removed my rear window and placed a 24 inch level from the window area straight back to the fuel filler door area. My luggage rack is the stopping point. I have a crown effect and the gap under the level is towards the fuel filler area. This is repeated placing the level behind the pass and drivers seat.
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This is like the blind guys trying to describe an elephant by feel.
Actually, Jim, I was describing the "crown" ACROSS the deck, side-to-side. Along the axis of the car, from rear window to fuel door, I find my deck almost perfectly flat with the very slightest "dip" of maybe 0.075"-0.090" height, maybe 1.5" width, just behind the vents where the rear plenum would be bonded. This result was similar along the centerline and behind each seat.
In a previous post, I thought that the deck could be flatter across the vent area and at the rear window...I checked it today and the deck also has a side-to-side crown in that area, but it is less pronouced than the side-to-side crown between the vents and the fuel door. I previously estimated the total side-to-side crown to be 1/2"; after double-checking, it is probably more like 3/8"-7/16".
These bodies were hand-made. Variations should be expected. I don't think we can know precisely how the designers intended this deck area to look (how the clay was sculpted so to speak) without taking measurements on many cars...then, we might then begin to see where the average measurements fell in the data scatter. -
Re: 70 rear deck continued
This is like the blind guys trying to describe an elephant by feel.
Actually, Jim, I was describing the "crown" ACROSS the deck, side-to-side. Along the axis of the car, from rear window to fuel door, I find my deck almost perfectly flat with the very slightest "dip" of maybe 0.075"-0.090" height, maybe 1.5" width, just behind the vents where the rear plenum would be bonded. This result was similar along the centerline and behind each seat.
In a previous post, I thought that the deck could be flatter across the vent area and at the rear window...I checked it today and the deck also has a side-to-side crown in that area, but it is less pronouced than the side-to-side crown between the vents and the fuel door. I previously estimated the total side-to-side crown to be 1/2"; after double-checking, it is probably more like 3/8"-7/16".
These bodies were hand-made. Variations should be expected. I don't think we can know precisely how the designers intended this deck area to look (how the clay was sculpted so to speak) without taking measurements on many cars...then, we might then begin to see where the average measurements fell in the data scatter.Comment
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