Sunroof Plug?

[Marcus Butlerus]

Anyone heard of these?
Do they require welding?
Where could i get one? I was thinkin prefferably in the UK

Cheers, Marc

 

[olly ek9]

no welding required,

give dixcelbrake a PM his tuning company makes lots of carbon things they may be able to fab one up for you,,

if not there are a few places in the US that do them:

It's all about POWER to WEIGHT ratio

 

[Marcus Butlerus]

Cheers, I shall do that

 

[Dunsy]

Wouldnt waste your time with Dixon cheng

Been at him for nearly two weeks now to send me photos of CF sir lips, he keeps fobbing me off saying he is too busy. might be true but not professional IMO

 

[Marcus Butlerus]

I might aswell try, Nothing to loose apart from weight

 

[RagingAngel]

I made my own out of the skin (top layer) of a suzuki aerio's hood.

I had it riveted and bonded (glued) in place for all of $40.00cad.

Sure the CF piece shown is probably lighter (by all of what 2lbs?), but value wise I personally can't justify.

 

[Marcus Butlerus]

I made my own out of the skin (top layer) of a suzuki aerio's hood.

I had it riveted and bonded (glued) in place for all of $40.00cad.

Sure the CF piece shown is probably lighter (by all of what 2lbs?), but value wise I personally can't justify.

Post a pick please. Does it look good though?

 

[Marcus Butlerus]

Has anyone got a picture of the roof without the Liner on? I've found a kit thanks to Olly, although it requires welding. just wondering if i could modify the bracket to be able to pop rivet it on instead.

Cheers, Guys

 

[Dunsy]

your gonna lose alot of strength doing that man, thats why it will need welded, to maintain chassis strength

 

[Marcus Butlerus]

The rest of the kit only gets pop riveted, it was just because the bracket length is too short to fit the rivet. Spoke to the guy

 

[RagingAngel]

your gonna lose alot of strength doing that man, thats why it will need welded, to maintain chassis strength

no you don't.

The roof skin itself it not a highly stressed member that's why it's as thin as it is up there with just a few braces under the roofliner to maintain its shape.

If you tried having the roof skin welded, you'd likely warp it or burn through it and then you're in for a bunch of other problems.

 

[RagingAngel]

Not the greatest pics...but the plug conforms to the overall shape of the roof so there's no flat indentation if one were just to use sheetmetal. I specifically chose the Aerio hood for this reason.

It uses rivets, and they are exposed on the top. It's a track car, so to me, I dun give a **** what it looks like at the moment. The silver ring around the plug is rust proofing paint as the Aerio hood had a raw edge from using an air saw to trim it.

 

[Marcus Butlerus]

I see, Really want to do this now

Thanks for posting dude.

 

[iceman]

im in 2 minds at the moment, bought a plug for my ek4 but now considering just cutting section from ek9 and getting it welded in and roof re painted

 

[Marcus Butlerus]

Does that mean your up for selling?