Looking good

 

OK here's the roof in daylight.

 

Nice did you say there was a gloss finish aswell?

 

The bee's knee's Ian.

 

matt looks insane wish i didnt get gloss now

 

I leaning towards having one myself imo

 

How much for the roof, looks amazing

 

Yes Callum.

 

It was part of a GB and for 10 it was £450. ACR Composites made it and a damn fine job too.

It's getting a protective wrap as soon as I get 5 mins.

 

Looks really good on the car ian

Wrighty - if you want you can fetch the roof back up and i can refinish it in matte for you. alternativly if you wanted to do it yourself you could always get a good da palm sander, 3m p3000 trizact pad and make it matte that way?

 

Chris,

Many thanks for the roof, excellent comms and being a nice bloke.



Ian

 

Looks great! I have one, best mod i ever did, although i totally panicked when my bf peeled my old roof off like a baked bean tin! (He fitted it) Luckily all went ok and i get tons of comments on it

 

Thanks for mine too Chris I will be fitting mine when I move in a couple of months, I'll have a garage then!! will send you some pics once fitted as promised!!

 

No worries, im looking at getting some stickers made soon for our car and a few others. was thinking i'd get a few made for everyone who bought a roof, can't beat abit of free advertising what would people want? dimensions? sunstrip? im unsure...

as for peeling off the old metal skin, i did this to our evo IX what a nightmare, it was an alloy roof riveted on with steel rivets, went through around 3 spot weld drill bits before i gave up and just attacked it with a grinder loads better, no holes in the bonding flange either.

I couldnt actually belive there would be a weight saving over an alloy roof with a carbon one, but it was around half the weight.

Some of you guys are asking whether to remove the cross braces under the steel roof skins, i personally wouldn't. when you fit the roof and bond to these cross braces, this creates a cavity between the roof and the cross brace which inturn increases the stiffness of the roof. its all second moments of area guys

 

Yeah mine was the same, took hours to do the spot welds alone! And what a bitch of a job, luckily we had a few mates over to help and they all took turns drilling them out!

And didnt touch the metal cross members under the roof, as that will be all that will be saving my head if i ever managed to roll the car! :/

K x

 

Just out of interest who made your carbon roof?

 

I bought it off Simon @ JGM, think he said it was a genuine WRX panel, thats all i know about it really. Its got the little fins built in on the back of it, had a bit of a problem with the laquer, got moisture in it and it went a bit milky, luckily my friend owns a bodyshop and he stripped it back and re laquered it, looks spot on now, been on a year with no probs (I was adamant it was going to leak lol)

 

I toyed with the idea of building in a votrex generator but i thought its kind of an evo thing, plus it would have made them more expensive. Refinishing carbon fibre isnt an easy task at all, but i would imagine no matter how badly made nay piece of carbon is that it would always be water tight

 

I meant i thought it would leak where it was bonded on as he'd never done anything like a roof before and i gave him loads of grief about him doing it lol as i wanted a garage to do it! But he proved me wrong ha ha

 

I'll have an A4 sheet with contact details for you and "prodriverules" on my dash when I go to the shows this summer.

More than happy to have a sticker .

 

Excellent, im meeting with the sticker guy next week, what kind of thing are you wanting? ill post up some pics of the design once ive finalised it. Maybe give me some rough dimensions?

 

2 x 6 would be pretty good mate. Neat, not to big or brash, don't do wing shopping lists.

 

Lol i think the wing shopping list is a wee bit out of date, so 2"x6", this should be fine, i would imagine we'll do stickers the same as the letter heads on the invoices.

 

Agree with this had mine open on my type R at high speed without issuse, but if u try opening it whilst doing high speed it will rip back and snap the latch

Roof Looks Awesome BTW

 

Cheers Dean. We going to see you soon?

 

Yes mate sure u will, i'll be at the shows this year

Will make an SWS meet as soon as i can, They just always seem to fall on the weeks when im nights and i start work at 6:45pm

 

 

It would be a very bad idea to remove the braces as they have the inserts[threads] to hold the screws for the front/rear lights in the head lining and also the handles for passangers to hold on to.
Plus the fact already mentioned the complete structual strength would be lost and that would be dangerous