Glass sunroof for FC!!!
 

Just wondering who here has a glass sunroof/moonroof on their FC's?

Well not to brag but I have one on my baby but have not seen any lately. If you do please pics :Kill1:

I was intrested in buying a black 88 GXL, it had a yelllow (but tinted black was a REALLY ugly dark yellow) oxidized plastic one, was cracked btw. I bought an 87 turbo instead with the metal sunroof. According to the Kelly blue book, a moonroof was an option (sunroofs=solid metal and moonroofs= glass, plastic) are you sure yours isn't plastic cause that's the only other one I've seen.

I had a tinted glass moonroof on the '87 Sport I used to own, it was a dealer installed option I assume.

I just bought two of them.
One from a seller from here and the other from eBay...


-Ted

The last one I saw on e-bay went for almost $500.

I'm still looking for a cheaper one.

people were working on making LEXAN ones not too long ago...Id be interested if they decided to mass produce.

me 2 ive seen one, couldnt tell you if it was factory though, couldnt get close enogh to check it out that well.

Correct me, as I may be wrong, but I thought these glass sunroofs were just a dealer "option" like... the dealer took the new rx-7, scrapped the stock roof and slapped a new one on to make it look even more appealing. Did Mazda produce any 7's with authentic "stock" glass sunroofs? I didn't think they did...

iSP33D-for-J3SUS :bigthumb:

Here's my GTUs
http://www.myfilestash.com/userfiles/renessis/03.jpg

EJ, you've seen mine back when I lived in St. Louis at the July meet, Mazda Dealership..that was a long time ago though.

y would you do that to a gtus.there supposed to not have sunroofs

The dealers had a Mazda Finsh Line brand glass roof available, that retrofited the existing steel roof with a glass panel, as well as Pacific made one for a while. It is my understanding the way to tell the two apart is that the Finish line roof did not have bolts through the top, while the pacific one did.

But glass roofs are pretty rare. It is much more common for a dealer to send the car out and have a glass pop up or slider put in on a car that didn't come with a sunroof originally.

I keep trying to get a glass one, and use it as a sample to have the tooling done to make new glass ones for our cars. But realisticly it would probably be around $300-$400 for a glass replacement.

my firend here in town had a glass moon roof,
it was a direct bolt in, he sold it on ebay for like 450$
it had like the bronze tint to the glass.

i always thought it was a euro-spec thing

My car came with one

Sounds exactly like my old glass moonroof, I believe it was made by Pacific.

My GTU came with a sunroof.

The glass sun roof really isn't all that hawt...I had one on my RX7 and because of it, sun shined right on my shifter, etc and made it a pain to drive around in 100 degree weather...yes it was tinted.

Right until the point my stepmom backed over it and shattered it (and blammed me for leaving it there) - I told her why didnt you look jesus

your stepmoms name is Jesus?

EJ, you've seen mine back when I lived in St. Louis at the July meet, Mazda Dealership..that was a long time ago though.[/QUOTE]

Yeah i remember it. i think you had just got the front mount in it. mine is blowed up.....has been scince about may i think....oh well, its getting done up right now. when did you move???


EJ

GTU and GTUs are different cars.

Pwnt.

And I think their hawt, I've only seen the queer plexi-glass ones in person so far :(!

I didn't do it to my GTUs the previous owner did that and the JSPEC TII stuff.

EJ
That engine blew from oil starvation last April, damn stock turbo took a big shit.
I moved in June for school. GTUs is sitting in my grandparents garage. I graduate in August, from there I'm not sure what I'm going to do. Probably rebuild and go big, I'm fed up with the stock ECU, I just want to simplify and go stand-alone.

you mean the tooling to have new glass made?
Why about cast lexan? (too scratchy?)
(I'm a moldmaker)
|M|

what bumper is that/

I have a lexan one which I purchased from one of the forums, some dude was making them. I wrecked my car before I had a chance to install, never took it out of the box. I could not even tell you if it was broken or not, never looked ( I was so pissed off that I wrecked my car - lost interest). Tomorrow I am going to go pick up a S5 convertible and will be puttin my efforts toward that ... lexan roof will not fix. So if someone wants to buy my lexan roof, let me know ... will ck it out 1st to see that it is not broken :)

too flexible and too easily scratched.

You have to be pretty thick to get the same ridgity that glass would have out of Lexan or a support system.

Cast as a preformed piece rather than heat moulded might work, but then you still have the problem of any dirt scratching.

erebuni

yeah, lexan is better than plexi, but it's still a bitch with the scratches.

did you ever contact anyone at a glass outfit. I know a guy at PPG.
lemme know........

Man it seems that quite a few people have had glass moonroofs. Ever since we had this RX7 (11 years ago) it always had the sunroof, who knows if it factory or not but it is a direct bolt-on. I just installed it yesterday and it fit perfectly.

If anyone plans on producing more or need a sample moonroof I will be more than happy to use mine as a sample. ( PM me if interested)

wow...didnt know they went for that much??
ill take a better pic. tommorow :)
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Like Mark said, the Pacific moonroof had exposed bolts, while the Finish Line model was sleek... The Finish Line roof was what came as an option on 10AE's, and the bronze tint matched the rest of the 10AE bronze glass... I've had a few Pacific glass tops, as well as 2 Finish Line tops... In fact I still have one of the 10AE tops *possibly* for sale if anyone is lookin... :D

pm'd ya

Anyone with glass moonroofs - put them on e-bay & we will bid them up.

Haha sweet if I decide to do that I'll send you a PM... :p:

Rotorforce PM'd you...

There were two versions produced:
1. Saratoga tops, Saratoga New York ( Company has moved and lost track of the extrusion molds)
2. ASC/ Pacific T-Tops, since gone out of business.

I am not sure who produced the ones sold under the "Finish Line" name

Going price right now is 350-600 dollars depending on the buyer. I just sold one with the GXL I sent to Canada

the one I have is exactly like that one!!!!!!!!!!!!!

mine??

That's the Finish Line roof...

nvm

it's funny, today I was at a super pro glass shop(bringing them one of my molds to show them and pull parts) and was looking around, and there was this big strange curved mold, and I couldn't figure out what it was. HE said it was a mold for a windshield in a helicopter. (they make all kinds of things, carrera GT, lambo, Rolls parts, etc) Then he showed me a bunch of heli, airplane, and auto glass molds.

He said most are poly carbonates, instead of lexan, but he said some people still want the lexan. He said the polycarbonate holds up much better. Then I asked him about the FC sunroof idea.

He said he will think about pros and cons, and anything that couldto let me know.
He also said that he does know some people that make custom glass, but he doesn't know what's involved. But I did get the #, so I will find out in a day or two when I call the glass people.(I'm thinking tooling for glass is probably way out of my price leauge)

I think that poly carbonate sunroofs might not be so bad...

Lexan is polycarbonate. Lexan is the General Electric trade name for polycarbonate. GE's Margard has the scratch resistant coating over the Lexan.

I would like a poly windshield if it's more resistant to scratches than Lexan...

Whats wrong with a normal sunroof? lol. I'm satisfied too easily.

Until the edges rust through..

lexan roof
 

how much?

kinda.

all lexan is poly-carbonate, but not all poly-carbonate is lexan.....

yes, lexan is a poly, but there are many other types of poly-carbonate that are not the same make up of lexan.

lexan has a kind of yellowish tint to it, even when it's brand new- no scratches.
There are other types of poly that are water clear, not brittle, etc.


I don't know all the ins and outs of the many types of PC, but I will find out the difference.

(for instance I use poly-urethanes for most molds, but there are many many types of poly-urathanes=glues, paints, rubber, plastic, etc)

Lexan is a TRADENAME for polycarbonate.
To claim anything else is ludacris! :D


-Ted

He is right though... There are different polycarbonates similar to Lexan... They have different trade names but are still forms of polycarbonate...

umm ok