I saw the last post on the sunroof block off plate, and was going to do the same, but my dad would have none of that... "you'll have holes in the roof later if you change your mind" is what he said. But I don't think there's any turning back now anyway.


























It took a bit of work, but not too much, about 4-5 hours. I love the guy, he did almost all the work, all I did was paint it (the only real ghetto part of the job)


And here's the car as it stands... my first w2w race this weekend - I'll have a post about that next week, I'm sure!

(e)updated pic:



Modified by uncleben at 8:13 AM 5/13/2003

 

thats quality workmanship..... good job

 

looks good, I want to put together that kind of blockoff on my crx, just lazy. . .

 

looks good

 

As I was scrolling through the pictures, I totally hoped that the finished product would have the Christmas-tree pattern. Nice job anyway.

 

I was thinking the exact same thing!

What class is "PA"?

 

This makes me wish I had a sun roof just so I could try to do this. YOurs looks better than any I've seen so far. Maybe I'll get an S7 car with a sunroof, it looks like it is easier to do this than the rear diff/brake swap on an S7. Good work, inspiring also.

 

thanks for the comments all, I'll pass them along to my Pop

Crack Monkey: PA is for Pro-stock A. I'm in a local racing series called COMMA, CoMpetition Motorsports Association. They are the Ne-Okla region SCCA track and I hope to get my SCCA license in the coming months and work towards a Honda Challenge race by the end of the year. In COMMA there are 5 classes, GT1, GT2, GT3, PS and PA. And let's just say, I'll be the only FF Honda on the track. Hopefully I'll make some converts/believers. From the last test and tune, I'm guessing I will. "What's in that there honda, it got a turbo or sumptin?? It's pretty darn fast out there!" Heh heh.

http://www.hallettracing.com



[Modified by uncleben, 1:22 PM 3/28/2003]

 

excellent work

 

wow, very sexy

 

Very nice fab work!

 

Wow that is nice. Now please come over and do one for me!

 

That's really nice! I would have given mad props if you left the christmas pattern though.

Warren

 

What no carbon fiber..........

Looks good

 

You ruined a perfectly nice christmas pattern table cover!


j/k nice work

 

That sure is a lot better than my leaking ghetto cover.

What did you use to cut the steel? Snips? If so, how did you smooth out the sharp edges?

 

Wow, that really looks nice...looks like a lot more work than it sounds like.

Alex

 

Grandpa says congrats on a great install. Really professional sheetmetal work there. Now you can create templates and sell the parts too. I chose to reskin the roof on our CRX but would have done it this way if I had seen yours first.
Consider this idea-remask the panel and paint it to look like the panel you just removed <G>.
Have fun and be safe

 

Wow...that thing is a real piece of work. Amazing fabrication precision.

 

Does your dad need another son by any chance?

 

thanks again for all the comments!

We used a saber saw to cut it, made pretty fine lines. And then a 4" handheld grinder to do the triming and notching.

my weekend of racing was a blast - I've never had so much fun behind the wheel of a car as going through a hairpin 3-wide with me stuck in the middle, it was a freakin rush! I'll post more on all that later, now I'm going to crash

 

Nice piece, I'd be very interested in buying one ready to install, as my extra time is very limited... Hopefully it would be a lot cheaper than a CF piece too

 

that's seriously a nice job you've done. i like the quality of your diy project. very nice. can you tell us how much weight you saved?

 

you really should think about doing this. Not on a large scale or anything, but I know there are plenty of people out there with IT prepped CRX/Civic's that would go the route you did rather than just mounting the OE sunroof panel or riveting a piece of metal on.

 

Dammmmmm, That is way better than 99% of the ones I have seen. on the job.