Removing 1/4 Windows on Hatchback?

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Old Aug 13, 2002 | 11:07 AM
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Default Removing 1/4 Windows on Hatchback?

Has anyone removed them before? I can get the LEXAN from a friend really cheap and I am interested in losing them for weight reasons. I waswondering if anyone has removed them before? Thanks.
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Old Aug 13, 2002 | 11:42 AM
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I'm sure it can't be too difficult, just a couple screws. Take off that molding between the door windows and rear, thats where you'll find all the good stuff. Then you just gotta unsrew it from the rear piece that allows it to open.

My question is, how much weight will it save and what is the proper way to put them on? I have no use for those windows functionally, might as well save some weight (plus I think they leak).

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Old Aug 13, 2002 | 11:45 AM
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haha, i think they all leak.
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Old Aug 13, 2002 | 12:24 PM
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http://macguyver.ath.cx/~tortex/CRX_Workshop_Manual.pdf

thats the jdm/edm honda manual, describes all that

file will be up there in a bit, still transfering


[Modified by TorteX, 3:25 PM 8/13/2002]
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Old Aug 13, 2002 | 04:02 PM
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Yeah I plan on stopping the leaks. SOME HOW... But I figured out how to do this so thanks for the help.
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Old Aug 13, 2002 | 04:25 PM
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Can you do this and still be street legal?
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Old Aug 13, 2002 | 05:02 PM
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Trace the stock window onto paper and cut the paper out. Use the paper as a pattern for cutting the lexan. Use a heat gun to bend the lexan more than it needs to be and when you bolt it up it should get nice and tight. You might need to add some brackets because the glass was stiffer, but then silicon should seal everything nice

To get the back bracket off the glass is as easy as removing an e-clip.

-Dustin
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Old Aug 13, 2002 | 06:23 PM
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lexan is not street legal
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Old Aug 13, 2002 | 06:31 PM
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I am not worried about it being street legal. Thanks for the info though.
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