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Nemesis 05-12-2003 10:41 PM


Originally Posted by smitty' date='May 12 2003, 09:39 PM
I took mine out removed all the tracks motors cut out the inner structure rivited it in on the inside

with 4 aluminium brackets sealed it from the inside with silicone.

Dave

Any pictures?

rmaiersg 05-12-2003 11:56 PM


Originally Posted by smitty' date='May 12 2003, 07:39 PM
I took mine out removed all the tracks motors cut out the inner structure rivited it in on the inside

with 4 aluminium brackets sealed it from the inside with silicone.

Dave

This motivates me. I wanted to do it on my old FC. Maybe I'll do it on this one. How much did you get out of the whole sunroof (weight)?

j9fd3s 05-13-2003 11:01 AM


Originally Posted by Rob x-7' date='May 12 2003, 03:37 PM
[quote name='j9fd3s' date='May 12 2003, 11:51 AM'] theres a guy on the evil forum that had it welded shut, and filled. i kinda want to do that to mine when the time comes



mike

I want to learn how to work with lead so I can fill things in the

old fashioned way. [/quote]

that would be cool, it supposedly is better



mike

75 Repu 05-13-2003 11:12 AM

Yeah lead work is nice.. cuz you can keep the car all metal baby.. There is a porsche guy in my Body Shop class and he was telling me that people used to praise how perfect the gaps on the old hand built porsche speedsters would be.. but in reality the assembly line guys would just stick a thin piece of wood in the gap which was way off and fill the rest with lead, then the remove the wood and it would look like a perfect gap..

Did that make sense?

FCmaniac 05-13-2003 12:13 PM

Just cut and rivet a piece of lexan in there with some clear silicone to seal.. worked great for me on a prev race car project except it was hot as hell since I didn't tint the bitch.

j9fd3s 05-13-2003 01:13 PM


Originally Posted by 75 Repu' date='May 13 2003, 08:12 AM
Yeah lead work is nice.. cuz you can keep the car all metal baby.. There is a porsche guy in my Body Shop class and he was telling me that people used to praise how perfect the gaps on the old hand built porsche speedsters would be.. but in reality the assembly line guys would just stick a thin piece of wood in the gap which was way off and fill the rest with lead, then the remove the wood and it would look like a perfect gap..

Did that make sense?

yeah, they like to rig handbuilt cars =) . they shoed some porsche thing on tv and they had a guy bench press the motors in the cars in the 50's



mike

75 Repu 05-13-2003 01:20 PM

Yeah the porsche guy was telling me about stufflike that too.. he said they had a buff germad due on a creeper, they would put the tranny on his chest then he would slide under and lift it into place.. heheh..

Rob x-7 05-13-2003 08:11 PM


Originally Posted by j9fd3s' date='May 13 2003, 12:01 PM
[quote name='Rob x-7' date='May 12 2003, 03:37 PM'] [quote name='j9fd3s' date='May 12 2003, 11:51 AM'] theres a guy on the evil forum that had it welded shut, and filled. i kinda want to do that to mine when the time comes



mike

I want to learn how to work with lead so I can fill things in the

old fashioned way. [/quote]

that would be cool, it supposedly is better



mike [/quote]

thats the way they used to do it, anything that was around

before they came up with all these low volotile organic compound

laws was good. The best paint jobs in the world were the old laquer paint

jobs, hell they even rubbed them out by hand. Nowadays they use

fancy glue for panel bonding, and 3M admits to shifting on panel bonds

such as 1/4 panels. People never had problems with lead shifting, or rusting for that matter.



Leaded gas was the best too, sure we might all be growing fins out

of our backs and dying of lead poisoning, but at least our cars will

look and run good!

wankel_dreams 05-14-2003 12:17 AM


Originally Posted by FCmaniac' date='May 13 2003, 12:13 PM
Just cut and rivet a piece of lexan in there with some clear silicone to seal.. worked great for me on a prev race car project except it was hot as hell since I didn't tint the bitch.

some previous owner did that on my project '79. I'd say you would definately want to tint it super dark, cause it looks ghetto as hell on my car.

mazdaspeed7 05-19-2003 08:22 PM

Does the roof flex enough to be a problem? Im tempted to fiberglass a lexan panel in place of the sunroof on my TII, but I am worried the roof will flex and it will crack the fiberglass.


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