Oh, I see. My apologies. My condolences for the loss none the less. I've heard great things about the site Modrify. I hope his legacy will carry on one day with his website opening again.

If anyone else ever finds another S2000 convertible strap for sale (other than OEM) let me know please! If there is other companies making Nissan Z straps, then you'd figure someone would be making a S2000 strap as well.

Thanks everyone,

 

i have seen these mentioned before on s2ki as replacements for our cars/modifry straps

 

The straps are not generic judging from their construction and the instructions. They're specifically designed to NOT remove the rivets in the cross bars using pins on specific spacing to go into the rivet holes. Here's the data I just copied and measured from a still in the envelope set of repair straps.

Someone feel fee to combine this into something we can retain here.

-- Chuck

 

Thank you Chuck! Those measurements are what I was looking for!

I don't believe the 350z straps will work now looking at the measurements. It appears the eye-to-eye size of the staple is larger on the 350z. As well, the 350Z strap is shorter by about 2".

Here's a scale drawing of the measurements...

 

Note the S2000 pins (staples) are not centered in the strap, apparently the close and far ends are important as to if they go toward the center or edge of the bar. The Modifry strap is significantly longer as it has to wrap around both bars as it's not riveted in and the over-wrap holds the pins in the holes.

There may be some parallax in the photos so millimeter tolerances are probably not needed. I put a set of these in my roof frame when the car was 8 years old in 2014 because the originals were as loose as noodles and hanging down with no evidence of elasticity. Installed a new Robbins cloth roof in June 2019, the new Robbins straps are riveted in just like the OEM were, and there is a good bit elastic tension on them right now with the roof up. Don't recall how the Modifry straps were after those 5 years when they were removed.

Gotta be a dozen folks here with these straps on their roof bars who can expand this information.

I mainly posted this as I doubted these were generic and a random strap from another convertible would do. Let me know if dragging these straps out again can answer more questions for you.

We're hoping someone picks up on these as there seems to be a market for them.

-- Chuck

 

About 4 years into my ownership of my 09, I noticed picture of how the rear of the car should look with the top down. Mine did not look like that and that was the reason I had problems getting the tonneau cover installed. Saw the problem cause and ordered Modifry. Perfect solution. Repeated over the years a few times as I thought the straps might be getting soft. You can also help the top go down especially initially-it helps a lot. For $20 you can't beat it. When I heard of the health problems of Bob and how he was going to wind things down, I got some extra straps and a few other goodies.

These things are not rocket science. If you have an old set of Modifry straps, you have the hardware and model for the new ones.

 

So the modrify shop seems to be up...but I don't see the soft top straps on the site. Am I blind?

https://modifry.shop/

 

So I know this might sound weird but that site is a friend of Bob's that took over the majority of the business but the majority that was the electronics. Another shop that I cant remember right off hand sells the other hard goods like the mounts and console organizers and Bob just kept selling the straps on the original Modifry.com page.

 

I picked up some elastic from a fabric store, not sure if it will work. My question is does anyone have a good idea on how to make the pins for the straps?

 

This work? There's an attached file hidden in that post.

https://www.s2ki.com/forums/s2000-mo...ement-1219926/

-- Chuck