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ok, since I've had so many questions requests and such into my sunroof, and a sunroof topic pops up every other week. This one is for the archives.

First things first:


















So... I bought mine local to me.
It's single layer carbon fibre. It's flimsy as hell... but it won't ever rust again.
...wich is good if you live where I do. Installing is a bitch. But that's the price you pay for custom made parts. I had to modify the guide rails simply by opening up the holes, and re-aligning the rails. But every roof is different.
Mine didn't sit flush for ****, so I had to bend the brackets where the roof hinges and is attached at the front. As you can tell from the pictures, it's flush enough not to make wind noises.

I paid ~300ish for mine.
You will also need the rubber weather stripping from your old roof, or a new one, as well as the bracket that goes around and supports the weather stripping.

Hope this clarifies some things.
Hi-res pictures here:
http://www.thinkddc.com/gallery/CFroof


Modified by SETI20 at 6:42 PM 3/12/2006

 

Looks nice man, im jealous. One question tho after looking at ur pic galleries. What did u do to your tailights to "tint" them. Im asking because i wanna tint my amber corners . Thanks.

 

who sell it?

 

I used something called "backlight paint". It's basically black glass stain. You'll also want to clearcoat it.

Like I said, a company local to me is selling it. I'm in Holland. If it's worth it, I might consider brokering a group buy.

 

Ill come pick mine up

 

that looks pretty nice, im looking for a replacement sunroof panel for my crx. not having much luck just finding the panel. how much did this kit run? any problems with water leaks?

 

Leakage is dependant on how shitty a job you do installing it. I'm not having any problems myself, but I've seen other ones leak like a sive.

Set me back about 300.

 

You suck bas

 

I love you too Jon

 

arospeed makes and sells them for the rex, i wish they made one for the hatchies.

 

does the rex have a different sized sunroof than the hatch?

did u use ur old wheather stripping? cuz it looks like the side facing the front of the car looks a little out of place...
how is the road noise after replacing it with that piece?
can u use ur old panel on the new one so that it doesnt look so ugly from the inside?

 

Yes, you can use your old headliner panel. I used double sticky tape, and it fell off again because of the heat. I am fabricating a new one out of a carbonfibre sheet.

I used my old stripping, and you're right. It has 2 spots where it's not sitting right. I'm looking into that. Might push it back and glue it in place.

The carbon isn't as good as keeping noise out as metal is. But I'm gonna use some insulation. That should fix it.

 

sweet...i would love to see flicks of the new CF paneling when its done...
ur ride is looking real nice too...lol is that pgmfi sticker on the door?

 

Yeah, that's OEM....

 

That's pretty...

 

The arospeed one is more like the OEM one it also has the slots for the headliner piece. But it also is a CF with fiberglass undersection. But as said at least it wont rust.

 

thats sexy as hell... thats exactly what about to be in my 89 crxsi right after i do the swap before i get the new paint... that, carbon fiber hood and mirrors... the lights r sick too, i wanna do blacked out corners and altezzas with the carbon fiber... really nice car man...

 

anyone have the link to the arospeed sunroof?

 

That sunroof is ******* bitchin'! i'm not even gonna lie. That **** has me jealous too.

 

You still havnt emailed me for that hood!

 

looks nice, here is a friend of mines homemade one.

 

not bad

 

I think the arospeed one is the same one as this.
One is a copy of the other, or the other way around

 

I bought one of those carbon fiber sunroof panels off of ebay like a year ago...
I had the same problem of it not sittin flush...On mine it dips down the the center a little (it dosnt quite curve with the roof completely)...but it dosent look bad, and it wont ever rust
Im having the bodyshop shoot on a nice coat of clear on it.

Hopefully my car will be outta the bodyshop this week...Ill be posting up pics soon of everything...Keep a lookout for "Kandy" in the title

 

Well, on mine the curve is about right.
But eventho there's clearcoat on mine, you can tell by th ereflections on the roof that it's just not as smooth as a stock roof would be.