project91crxsi

i bought a shell and built it now its my daily, anyway when i picked it up the kid said it was an ex and i didnt check the vin till a few days after i got it and figured out its a dx. so someone cut a hole in the roof and put a piece of plexiglass in it? idk it use to be a track car but idk what would be the point of doing that. anyway, it leaks and im not sure of what to do, weighing out my options, id like to put a stock sunroof in it but if someone cut the hole i heard it will never not leak? opinions please idk what to do with it but im sick of my car being wet inside and it looks really bad compared to the rest of the car

grumblemarc

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Not gonna happen.

civicsi_guy

Your best bet is to get an aftermarket sunroof installed and make sure they have a warranty incase it leaks again

NotAJDMFanBoy

You could find someone good at welding and have them TIG weld a patch panel in. A whole new roof could be installed, but that would be fairly involved. You could find some sort of seal to hide the seam and seal the two with polyurethane sealant.

mafia

I would drill roof skin out and install stock dx oem roof skin, paint it and call it a day.

s13hero

You can but you'll have to swap the entire roof

slyda24

That's unfortunate. seems like somebody watched a little too much Viva La Bam. If it were me, i'd restore the roof back to factory. You should have gotten an Ex shell if you wanted a sunroof.

project91crxsi

i have an ex shell but couldnt get ahold of the title for it so i stripped it back down after rebuilding it completely to build this one, i was told this was an ex shell and i figured they just replaced the sunroof glass with plexiglass and didnt really take notice too how rigged it was till a few days later. so basically i have a useless ex shell sitting next to it in my driveway, so i guess the easiest way for me would be to either get a friend to patch the hole, or get someone to help me roof swap. just wondering how hard the roof swap would really be? ive seen some say its real hard then i saw on a different forum someone saying its easy you just take out the roof gutters and drill out the spot welds holding the skin in and do the same to the ex then get someone to weld the ex skin in and its done...

slyda24

Hmm.. i think you would need to take that to a body shop to do the roof swap, i mean after all, the roof holds all those pillars together and you won't want those to be weakened or short of a weld, Why not just go back to the Ex and build it? i mean since the DX has a chomp out of it already, doesn't make sense to spend money to fix that sunroof.. unless the Ex is damaged beyond the Dx?

gzes

His problem is not that its wrecked or whatnot but that he cant get a title so he cant register to drive it so I just say go ahead and try to put a sunroof in worst case is u need the new roof

project91crxsi

^^ thank you, so i need to do something asap, it looks like rain for the next 3 days and today it was so much worse, i got in my car and my seats were soaked so i had a wet ***, then as i start driving it starts dripping on my legs out the front of the headliner, i look back and it was dripping all out of the back of the headliner too, and too top it off it was fogging up the windows so bad i could barely see. this is my daily driver i need to figure something out ASAP

project91crxsi

yes, the not titled one has some dents on it too and is primer, the one with the ****ed up roof is flawless, no dents no dings no rust no bondo, nice white with blue pearl paint

jbpnoman

If the roof has a massive hole cut in it, I wouldn't exactly call it flawless.

deschlong

iTrader: (8)

Here is the DIY you need to do an OEM sunroof retrofit install. And it sounds like you are the perfect candidate since you have a donor car sitting right there, plus you NEED to fix the DX roof. You must join the board to view the thread ... but here's a preview:

project91crxsi

so you can see what im working with here

deschlong

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Jeebuz.

Complete roof skin swap from the EX. Look at that rot on the roof! Yikes.

There's a couple of DIYs out there that will help you (one good one is for an EF that went from sunroof --> no sunroof; there's also one about a glass CRX roof install which will also be similar). But you are going to need welding skills and plenty of time. But, it's doable. And you get a sunroof out of it. (Do happy dance here.)

cvcrcr99

I hate my sunroof. I wish they made an EX without one.

IMO, your best bet is to simply close off the hole and try to get it back to a sun-roof-less car. I have a feeling that you will always fight leaks even if you go through ALL of that trouble for a window on your roof.

project91crxsi

What would be the best bet then to weld metal in from the inside or outside? I just don't want to have to do tons of bodywork on the roof

94preludeguy

****, I would honestly just ghetto rig it, sell the car and have it be someone else's problem. No matter what is wrong with these old Hondas, SOMEBODY out there will want it no matter what.

Frozen E

You couldn't tell that the roof had a hack job done to it with a chunk of plexi? That has to be the most NON stock looking "sunroof" ever.

94preludeguy

Or pull everything out of the car with the hacked roof. Sell both cars as a shell with a title and a parts car with no title. Go buy your own shell, throw everything from the hacked up car onto your new shell. It'd be a lot of work but I guarantee you'll come out on top doing it this way.

doood

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how do you NOT notice something like that?

project91crxsi

the problem is this is my 9th honda in the past year and a half so im trying to stick with one and make it perfect

i saw it was plexiglass but i didnt take notice to how much of a pain it would be to fix, i just figured it was screwed over the stock hole because he said it was an ex and i looked in the bay and saw a power steering rack so i didnt look any further into it. so i figured replacing it with my stock sunroof from my other car and welding the little holes closed would pretty much be the extent of it
the problem with this is this is the 3rd car all of the parts on it have seen. i had the whole swap/suspension/interior on a 95 dx crashed it, bought the ex built it all, couldnt get the title so i bought this stripped the other one and built this one. after all that id rather just work with what ive got

jbpnoman

9 cars in a year and a half?

I'm going to go out on a limb here, but maybe you should actually figure out where you went wrong with all 9 of those, learn from those mistakes, and pick up a 10th that isn't all sorts of jacked up.

The structural integrity of the car is ruined as it sits right now. You should either replace the roof, or just replace the whole shell.

project91crxsi

nothing went wrong with any of them, i just would get bored of them quickly or didnt like something about them so i was constantly buying trading all kinds of deals, i went from a $850 crx, to a b18 ek hatch with full skunk2 pro c one piece coilovers, beaks bar, asr subframe brace, asr sway, s2 lca's, s2 camber kits all around, it had everything but i got bit by the bug again and wanted to try out a eg coupe, traded for a fresh coupe did a some mods here and there loved it then i crashed it lol thats when the whole shell dilemma started