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[MakDiesel]

k, so Bonnie just flew through the East Coast and I had to drive 100 miles that day only to discover my sunroof leaks under heavy rain. It has never leaked otherwise. The drainage tubes are clear but the seal isn't the best so what I was wondering (so there's more rain outside than inside) is to completely remove the sunroof and replace it with a fiberglass sheet to be molded in, thus no more rain and 50 lbs less on top. I didn't really care for the sunroof in the first place, it only allowed the top of my head to burn on hot days, plus I've been itching for a reason to remove more 'extra' weight. Opinions? Mak

[Airjockie]

Sheetmetal is better than Fiberglass....well, at the time it was for me, I couldn't do fiberglass like I could sheetmetal at the time, but this was the quik and easy way.

Get a peice of nice sheet, measure everything, go a little wider than the hole your covering, brake the edges...as in curve them a little, then drill, and cleco it to the roof, and clean up everything, then run a bead of silicon around the panel on the inside and paint the interior of the metal....and pop rivit it on.

then paint the exterior, and voila...instant panel.

But the downfall is...everytime you close the door and the windows are up, the roof bangs and pops like thunder...doing it in fiberglass will just add unnesscary weight, unless you can make a sheet of carbonfiber, but you wont have the curve of the roof if you make it flat....

[tjbizzo]

You could always remove the entire sunroof assembly, and then put only the sheet metal skin back in place with rivets, screws, caulk, whatever. It's pretty light, the right shape, the right color, and most importantly it's free! Anyone see a prob with that idea?

[Dan-O]

Look back a few pages here, there's a thread about a custom carbon fiber sunroof insert that in the works.

[TAAGMANsCRXwithKYBs]

Look back a few pages here, there's a thread about a custom carbon fiber sunroof insert that in the works.

Thanks, Dan-o, that is what I was thinking... I brought that link over here from the Nor CA CRX club web page. I'll try and find it again, if it can't be searched from the archives.

[E-AT_me]

well, glad you made it out alive in the first place!

hope all our florida members are oK!

[87crxdx]

get a dx or hf headliner

[bigk3000]

you guys suck... keep the sunroof and just fix the leak

sun roof kicks ass!

[C8V6C]

I was questioning replacing mine as well.....

Ive been needing a sunroof for quite some time, and Im not missing much, considering its only a prop up

Id rather weld mine to the top of the roof though....and then qust sand it down to match, and paint the whole car black again

[I3ackfire]

Man thats really shitty to hear, being in a hurricane would freak me out so bad.

As for the sunroof I would just fix the seal and keep it. I love my sunroof on the 2G Crx to much, I would never get rid of it...it basically is my air conditioning

[C8V6C]

Man thats really shitty to hear, being in a hurricane would freak me out so bad.

As for the sunroof I would just fix the seal and keep it. I love my sunroof on the 2G Crx to much, I would never get rid of it...it basically is my air conditioning 

I dunno if you knew, but the CRX's sunroofs are actually worth keeping

The 3rd hatches only prop up from the back....thats it.....

So we get like 2 in if that of opeinging....and it barely lets in a draft

[AudioCra-Z]

I have a sure fire way of not having those sunroof problems.....


I got a DX!

[C8V6C]

Anything wrong with Lexan? Maybe ill do that, and just silicone the bottom, to try to keep out water