Ian
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Thoughts?
I've got a touch of rust returned at the front edge of the roof, top of the windscreen and I've always fancied a sunroof anyway. Big job?
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sand-eel
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mmm i've seen this done on novas is quite a big job, you have to drill out all the spot welds and spot weld the new roof back on quite time consuming
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16V_1600
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quote:
Originally posted by Ian
Thoughts?
I've got a touch of rust returned at the front edge of the roof, top of the windscreen and I've always fancied a sunroof anyway. Big job?
Would imagine you'll compromise the factory structural rigidity of the chassis.
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Ste L
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quite a few spot weld's all round, under windscreen, roof strip's and top of boot..
thats it really - nothing a decent body shop couldn't do
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Robin
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It's probably not as bad to do as it would look if you know what you're doing.
Speak to Ed's mate Tom, I'm sure he'd know, or Graeme, M Sutton etc
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IvIarkgraham
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just get a carbon roof skin
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Ian
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Carbon isn't the look I'm going for. Factory sunroof would be 
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Ste L
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quote:
Originally posted by Robin
It's probably not as bad to do as it would look if you know what you're doing.
Speak to Ed's mate Tom, I'm sure he'd know, or Graeme, M Sutton etc
replacing the skin, would be fairly easy, but unsure about adding the sunroof, as i though it may have extra strenghening beam's under the roof
so wouldn't sure what you could do about that
i know the tilt/slide nova's had different roof support's on them models
[Edited on 21-03-2008 by Ste L]
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Ian
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Yeah I'm on about taking one out complete from another car.
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Ste L
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ahh, so adding the skin, and the beam's too?
may be a hard job then i guess, making it all straight - unless leaving original's there, and just adding in any extra's that aint there
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Colin
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Fair bit of work but can be done.
Some cars that get the full regulation roll cages have the roof skin removed to ease fit. Im sure if they go to that length then its not 'that much work' on the grand scale of things.
Do it 
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sand-eel
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quote:
Originally posted by Colin
Fair bit of work but can be done.
Some cars that get the full regulation roll cages have the roof skin removed to ease fit. Im sure if they go to that length then its not 'that much work' on the grand scale of things.
Do it
world rally cars do that
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Steve X16XE
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Seen it done to a MK2 astra but the other way around. He didn't want the sunroof.
If it's all welded up propperly i can't see there being much hassle.
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J100RSA
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not too bad to do just time consuming
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chrex
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Im getting rid of my sunroof! They only bad news, coz the drains tend to block and then rust up...causing water to sit in the rear 1/4's.
I'd just put a new sunroofless skin on ian...save the car from rotting away inside-out.
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Kurt
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roof chop
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ed
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I used to think it would be pretty hard, but actually it's fairly easy. Seen the panel removed which takes a bit of grinding to get the spot welds out. Then the whole thing needs a tidy up and a new panel needs to be spot welded in. Fitting the sun roof should be fairly easy too. You just need to get all the parts from somewhere and bolt them on... It's all in the labour though, will be time consuming and will need to be done by somone quite skilled.............
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M2RTY
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e46 m3 lads remove their sunroofs all time
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Ian W
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Seem this done on an XJ6 in a bodyshop I worked in a few years ago and a lad I know done it on a corsa b a while back, just a case of drilling the spot welds and replacing it with the new panel iirc.
If you were to do it yourself I imagine you would be better to have the donor car yourself to ensure the roof came off clean, plus you would have all the sunroof mech then as well 
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Nismo
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very big job.
Bodyshop i used to work in did a few but they would prefer not to do them, seems easy enough but in reality its not.
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Mike GSi
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Find a Nova Solar and get the eleccy sunroof out of it
as for the roof, dont most places just buy a roof skin and put it straight over it?
obviously getting rid of the rust undernieth first? 
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STEvieXE
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easiest panel to fit.
just buy a new roof, wouldnt start trying to swap roofs too easy to damage old roof removing . new roof skin if new support bars needed in below get them from a donor car..
def no biggy
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BeArDy
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its easy mate, even better if you can get a brakers yard to cut a roof of a car as everything is there.
wouldent cost much more than having the rust repaired and roof repainted.
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bigdan
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i would imagine you would need a spot welder aswell
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Ant
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im planing on cutting my roof skin out to fit a carbon fibre one this involves leaving around 50mm of the original and bonding the carbon on top only thing im not sure on is if it is safe to do it st on its wheels or that would make it loose all its geometry.
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