I forgot to mention that I used expoxy to glue the black pieces of plywood to the bottom of the tonneau cover.

In case you're interested, the cover cost me just over $500 including shipping. I paid $200 to have it painted (I live in a small town with low cost of living, and I'm guessing it would have cost about $300 in a bigger city) and spent about $10 on hardware (bolts, brackets, elastic straps to tie down the front of the cover to the pins that the OEM tonneau cover connect to, and grommets). It wasn't an inexpensive ordeal, but I love the look and wish that Honda had this as an OEM option.

 

Interesting.

BTW -- The highway was what I was *wink, wink* referring to as the wind tunnel testing. I was just wondering if you might have tested at speeds that might not be considered prudent. This is an important aspect of this project.

 

BTW. Mine had some simple little angle brackets attached to where you have your straps attached to. There is a little cover (it is snapped in) shown in this picture outlined in red:



If you remove that cover, there is a screw underneath. Remove the screwes from each side and you can use those to hold the front of the cover down. Should be much more secure and would likely rattle less.

 

Interesting. I didn't realize there was a screw hidden underneath that little cover that you outlined. My Veilside tonneau cover did come with the little "L" brackets that you mentioned, but I removed them and replaced them with some elastic straps that connect to the little pins by the side of the car seats that the original tonneau cover staps on to. You're right that screwing the "L" brackets is more secure and probably would reduce potential rattle.

Then again, the streets where I live are in pretty good shape and I haven't had any rattling. I also like the idea of being able to quickly remove the the front straps because it's enough work to have to remove the hex bolts that I have holding the two halves of the tonneau cover together. Here in the southern part of Virginia by the Blue Ridge Mountains the clouds roll in quickly and I need to be able to remove the top quickly.

 

Why couldn't honda just make a retractable top cover like nissan....







Peace

 

Way cool set up you have here, I use to have a similar set up when I first got into roadsters with the Miata and it's Rhys Millen designed tonneau cover.

Tan

 

thats smart man, not being able to easily store that thing was what turned me off of it in the first place. If I had the guts/brains to do what you did, i might have to consider getting one again. Looks awesome though.

-Ian

 

Looks good. You know you got the last year of Suzuka, right?

 

bump bump..

I just pick up my cover... but its already painted... dont know if I have the guts to cut it in half..

 

ballsy, but a good idea.