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mwpayne 06-19-02 07:01 AM

Install pop-up sunroof?
 
Anyone installed a pop-up sunroof? I want one in my 85, but I don't want to cause potential problems. Anyone done this successfully?

MIKE-P-28 06-19-02 09:42 AM

https://www.rx7club.com/forum/showth...hlight=sunroof

Ive done told you, your rotary / body shop is here :)

Get a roof from a donor car, cut at the A pillar and at the back side panels so I get the whole roof headliner and all :)

peejay 06-19-02 05:18 PM

NOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Non-sunroof models are rare and valuable....

Vohaul 06-19-02 05:23 PM

i have a non sunroof gsl.....now thats rare.....

im looking at a sunroof called the genesis....almost same size as the stock one...moonroof, popup style....(i was thinking bout doing the donor swap...but that would probably cost a lot......

peejay 06-19-02 06:26 PM

I would SO love to have a non-sunroof model! It would be a lot easier than welding the steel skin in place and cutting all of the bracing out.

mwpayne 06-19-02 06:29 PM

Hey peejay

You want a no-sunroof model, I want a sunroof model.
HHMMMMmmmmm.........................

MIKE-P-28 06-20-02 11:15 PM


Originally posted by peejay
NOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Non-sunroof models are rare and valuable....

Really? I guess I devalued 2 of them :)

MIKE-P-28 06-20-02 11:24 PM

I envision some sort of a roof assy, in a sprts car :) either T tops, targa, sunroof or a vert :)

peejay 06-21-02 05:43 AM

No sunroof = more room for helmeted heads :)

What good is a sports car if you can't take it to the track? That is the whole premise behind a sports car... something cheap that you can race and drive on the street too.

RotarMotor 06-21-02 06:39 AM

I agree with peejay. I prefer non-sunroof too. To me it feels like more of a racing car without the sunroof. However it is totally personal preference.

82streetracer 06-21-02 11:18 AM

What kind of mechanism opens the sunroof. On my 82I have a lever that I move from the right to left. But at the junkyard I saw a 83 with a sunroof that had a much more complicated and big ass mechanism to move the sunroof up.

I wonder if my car came stock without a sunroof.

error402 06-21-02 12:58 PM


Originally posted by peejay
No sunroof = more room for helmeted heads :)
Unless you take the sunroof off. :)

MIKE-P-28 06-21-02 02:42 PM

Actually I think if you have the glass roof in there, there is more room. The headliner hangs lower than the glass roof does, the glass roof gives you maybe 3/4" more :)

Jason Guthrie 06-22-02 03:56 PM


Originally posted by MIKE-P-28
Actually I think if you have the glass roof in there, there is more room. The headliner hangs lower than the glass roof does, the glass roof gives you maybe 3/4" more :)
Correct


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