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MG TD TF 1500 - TD Back Draft Screen

Does anyone know where I can get pictures, or plans for Back Draft Screen for a TD?
George Metz

Hi George,

I seem to recall seeing a clear caption of these after market screens in the T Series Handbook put out by The New England T Register.It was a photo of the original ad. for this item.

Cheers
Rob. Grantham
Rob Grantham

Oh sure, I suppose you have 'hair' to get blown around...!!!!
gblawson - TD#27667

Gordon,
You owe me a new keyboard after spraying it with Diet Coke!!!! Too funny!!!!.....ROTFLMAO...

Octagonally spewin and spittin...

DaveL
dave lackey

On a serious thought, though...

With the collective talents I have seen on this board, maybe a new design could be made up? I know my darling wife would love to have one!

Octagonally blown,


Dave
dave lackey

At 73, I drive all summer with my windscreen down, except in heavy rain. Why would I want to spoil the great feeling of fresh air rushing around me, with a back-draft screen?

I can understand the 'honeys' wanting to protect their hair (what's wrong with a hat?), but for ME, a back-draft screen is "sissy".

Having driven Ts for 57 years, the only effect is a mild case of tenitis.

Gord Clark
Rockburn, Qué.

Gordon A. Clark

Couldn't agree with you more! Love that wind...that is exactly what driving caps are for!!!

But, every now and then, would like to take the wife out to dinner with the top down...she refuses to go with the top down when she has her hair and makeup done....sheesh....
dave lackey

Gordon.
To drive only 3 weeks with the windscreen down is a waste of lowering labour.
Sandy said that.
Sandy Sanders

On every modern roadster I've had, I've always had a wind block. Today on my MB SLK32 I have a small plexi one. The most effective I've had were on my Miatas (Miatae?)

It would be very easy to design the block for a TD that mounts behind the seats and uses the screws holding the seat adjusters to the seat back as the attaching points. Problem is, as the TD has a low seat back (no headrests) so the plexiglass would have to stretch all the way accross the back, and be quite high. I think it would look odd, but hey it probably would work.

Each modern car has it's own burbling affect in the cockpit based on aerodynamic design, but I fear the TD doesn't have that :-) Also, one of the best ways to reduce cockpit burbling is to raise the passenger window. Last time I checked for one of those on the TD, I came up empty :-)
L Karpman

Maybe the BEST way to reduce back draft is to lower the front windscreen!!! That would do it...wouldn't it? LOL
dave lackey

I agree with the majority... screens look ok on a Z8 (well, to tell you the truth, they look kind of strange on anything), but I think would be really out of place on a TD...saw one on an MGB the other day.... just didn't work for me... Just drop the windshield and the 'honeys' will forget all about their hair!!!!!
gblawson - TD#27667

Gordon and I don't need no stinking wind blocker. God blessed us both aerodynamic hair lines.

LaVerne
LaVerne

Just got back a week or so ago from GOF Central, round trip about 1100 miles. Top down both ways and the wind is not that bad. I would reccommend that wind wings be attached and that solves a lot of the problems. Most of the time we are not running 75MPH anyway...IMHO the screen is unnesasary.
Tom

Thank you all for your serious, and humorous advice. Despite your chastisement I'm glad I asked. Laughing at your comments will keep me warm all winter as I drive heaterless with the vigorus New England wind trying to move my 78 year old hair to the windscreen. Guess I'll have to buy a cap.
Keep up the good work.

George
George Metz

George

I have been trying to come up with a design for a wind blocker for a TD that would have a piano type hinge in the middle and fold in half in order to hide behind the seats whenever its not in use. At present, this is only in prototype stage, with a mock-up made of cardboard, but I hope to develope this further over the winter. I'm open to any suggestions from the BB as to how to lock it in place when in the erected position. One possibility is the use of a bungee cord to secure it to the seat back adjuster on each side.

Suggest away -- Lou
Lou VanKoningsveld

If you had side frames on the plexiglass, with an inch or so portion that extended below the plexiglass itself, with a 1/4" or so hole in it, you could simply slip those ends over the seat adjuster wheel arch bracket threaded stud, and use the same wing nut to keep it upright. Loosen the wingnut and it would lie flat under the tonneau. It would eliminate the need for a hinge also. Just a thought at 2AM. Everything sounds good at thisn hour :-)

Larry
L Karpman

The backdraft screen is an accessory for my other car, a Saab convertible. That car NEEDS a backdraft screen. (I think it has to do with the low pressure area in the spacing between the back of the front seat and the back seat.)
With the windscreen erect or folded, the TD does not need a screen!
Mark Sherman

Good evening all:
I've got a backdraft screen attached to the rollbar on our Miata and I wouldn't be without it. I've also thought that I'd like a screen for the TD, and I was thinking of something that could fold down and act as a boot cover when not in use as a screen. Double duty or a fool's errand - I'm not sure.
I'd certainly be interested if any better minds than mine could come up with a design that could fold up and down [down in order to go with the Brooklands screens, and up to go with the windshield, side curtains, and our cool late September and October prairie evenings.
Here's the other question that I had when I was musing over this last winter: What about one made of something like a cold-molded mahogany, black walnut, or cherry strips built like a cedar canoe or kayak? It wouldn't look as out of place as the piece of lexan like the blocker on our Miata, but it would still do the trick -and stained the right colors could certainly complement our various paint and interior schemes.
I'm really interested in this as a project, and if I'd certainly be interested in carrying on this conversation.
Thanks all,
Dave Jorgensen
Dave Jorgensen

Dave, take a look at my earlier suggestion to use the wing nuts on the seat adjusters. Your idea of a semi-solid screen could be made quite easily and hinge on these two wing nuts for up and down.

Larry
L Karpman

When my honey complained (nagged) about her hair blowing about in the MGB I stopped in a village and bought her a pink rubber swimming cap; that shut her up properly (but I payed dearly in the following days...).

Later we found a beautiful silk MGCC scarf in my fathers collection to use as a hair-container. This doesn't look quite right in an MGB but would look the part in a TD if you can get your wife to dress up that old fashioned?
Willem van der Veer

I found that two three foot sections of good string with an aligator clip on the end and the other end tied to the side curtain nut works very well .
My wife and I wear baseball hats and clip them to the string for when they blow off .

I tried the windscreen down thing ,,,it is very sporty looking but it beats the hell out of you.
It seemed worse than riding my motorcycle .
Maybe there is more wind turbulance because of the square shape front.
But no matter whatit is always fun.
Alan

Alan... I love the concept of the string... I sit there with one hand holding my cap on a windy day.... Of course a flying helmet is fun as well, but maybe the Mrs. wouldn't like it?
gblawson - TD#27667

Just thought I would put inmy two cents since I haven't been on the list for a while. This is how we do it up here in Maine. No screen front or rear!! Cheers, JL

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James Lea

This thread was discussed between 13/10/2006 and 25/10/2006

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