Hotrodpez Posted January 25, 2009 Share Posted January 25, 2009 As far as I know, the S30 did not come factory with a sunroof. That means that the hackjob looking hole in the roof of one I'm looking to buy is most likely that, a hack. Does anybody make a good sunroof I could install? Or patch the hole? Or try to find another car? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cockerstar Posted January 25, 2009 Share Posted January 25, 2009 There's really two options you have with a sunroof (like you couldn't have figured this part out on yourself)- 1) Keep it 2) Ditch it I'm not sure on the availability of NOS sunroof parts, but that doesn't mean that you can't go through and clean up the sunroof you have now. I know I have two of them and the seals on them actually seem to be in decent condition, especially considering their ages. I opted to go for option number two purely because I didn't like the look of having a sunroof. Mine didn't leak and was properly installed. For patching them you can go with a metal patch, or a fiberglass one. Again, I'm not sure on the availability here, but I have seen entire roof skins done in carbon fiber so I'm sure that there's something out there to patch a sunroof with. I opted to go with the metal patch and got mine from my parts car that had a straight roof. I just cut the entire skin off so I was able to lay the entire thing over my roof and trace the piece that I needed from inside to cut for a perfect patch panel. From there it was just a matter of tacking and then stitch welding it into place and then smoothing everything out by grinding the welds down and then skim coating with a layer of filler. Unfortunately, it rained on my filler and now I have to do it all over again The hole is definitely patchable (even if you need to clean up the hole with a clean square cut a clean skin from a donor car can be used) and I wouldn't let it shy you away from a good car in the least! Hope this answers your question! lmk if you would like some pics of my patch job Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TStewart Posted January 25, 2009 Share Posted January 25, 2009 This may be the best way to go: http://1971.240z.home.comcast.net/~1971.240z/2008/08-04.html Arne over at Classic Z Cars did this last year. Probably an expensive route, but it looks great. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oddmanout84 Posted January 25, 2009 Share Posted January 25, 2009 If I could FIND a donor roof in this part of the country, you can bet I'd do this to get rid of my "sunroof". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Twentyfourouncer Posted January 25, 2009 Share Posted January 25, 2009 Roof panels show up on Ebay from time to time. I bought one and it showed up in perfect condition, packaged very well. The seller I bought from is named taaroa477. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arne Posted January 25, 2009 Share Posted January 25, 2009 Actually, I posted the results here, too. See this thread, more pictures than I posted on my website. http://forums.hybridz.org/showthread.php?t=133714 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cockerstar Posted January 25, 2009 Share Posted January 25, 2009 What was done there is an entire roof reskin, which really isn't necessary. It will hide any signs of a repair if it was taken down to bare metal again in the future, but that's about the only plus side. The process is a lot more drawn out and I think it would be more difficult, but I can only guess because I've only tried one method Scroll down a bit for some pics partially through my patch work: http://forums.hybridz.org/showthread.php?t=143000&page=4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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