• From: Rancho Cordova, CA
  • Registered: 2009-08-27
  • Posts: 6

Topic: No open sunroofs, but you can cut the roof off?

Forgive me, I'm a rookie, but am I reading correctly in the rules, that there can be no open sunroofs unless mesh (with openings of less than 1/2 inch) covers the opening?

Seems strange to have that rule, but allow the tops to be cut off MR2s and the like.

We're prepping a 1983 Porsche 944 and it would be nice to just ditch the removable sunroof, the clamps for which are pretty well shot anyway.  Anyone have suggestions on what type of mesh to use and where we can pick up something cheap like that?  Plastic landscape fencing, perhaps?

  • From: Frisco, Texas
  • Registered: 2009-05-02
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Re: No open sunroofs, but you can cut the roof off?

Yeah, doesn't seem to make much sense does it?

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  • From: Portland, OR
  • Registered: 2009-04-30
  • Posts: 201

Re: No open sunroofs, but you can cut the roof off?

just use the 1/4" stiff wire mesh available at any home store.  Not chicken wire, not screen door scree.  It's going to keep your fingers away from the asphault and dirt and then asphault and then wall when you flip your amazing handling race car over.

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Re: No open sunroofs, but you can cut the roof off?

Is it a glass sunroof, or a metal one? Just weld it shut...

  • From: Federal Way, WA
  • Registered: 2009-06-11
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Re: No open sunroofs, but you can cut the roof off?

Spinnetti wrote:

Yeah, doesn't seem to make much sense does it?

See rule 3.21 below. I suspect that the same requirement would apply to a sunroof-less hardtop.

3.21: Open T-Tops and Convertibles: Arm restraints are required when driving an open T-Top or convertible.

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  • Registered: 2009-04-30
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Re: No open sunroofs, but you can cut the roof off?

AppetiteforDestruction wrote:

Anyone have suggestions on what type of mesh to use and where we can pick up something cheap like that?  Plastic landscape fencing, perhaps?

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  • From: Greenville SC
  • Registered: 2009-05-02
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Re: No open sunroofs, but you can cut the roof off?

I think the original sunroof on a 944 is fiberglass.  Just make some brackets and bolt the sunroof in place.  Then add a bead of caulk to seal it.

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  • From: St Catharines, Ontario
  • Registered: 2009-07-16
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Re: No open sunroofs, but you can cut the roof off?

We have a targa top on our supra, we are going to remove it to weld the cage and the bolt it back in.. smile

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  • From: Charlotte, NC
  • Registered: 2009-05-01
  • Posts: 113

Re: No open sunroofs, but you can cut the roof off?

andyshoun wrote:

I think the original sunroof on a 944 is fiberglass.  Just make some brackets and bolt the sunroof in place.  Then add a bead of caulk to seal it.

I agree, this would be your best course of action.  But maybe it's just me.  I like having a roof over my head.  Of course the street sign deal is rather intriguing as well.....

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  • Registered: 2009-04-30
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Re: No open sunroofs, but you can cut the roof off?

CaptainRat wrote:

Of course the street sign deal is rather intriguing as well.....

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  • From: Charlotte, NC
  • Registered: 2009-05-01
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Re: No open sunroofs, but you can cut the roof off?

ecugrad wrote:

Works well!

Sweet!  Taking notes....

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  • From: Rancho Cordova, CA
  • Registered: 2009-08-27
  • Posts: 6

Re: No open sunroofs, but you can cut the roof off?

Thanks to all.  We'll likely just bolt it in, though selling it (and its carry bag) still remains an option.

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Re: No open sunroofs, but you can cut the roof off?

Sell it and rivet a piece of metal over the hole

  • From: Huntington beach, CA
  • Registered: 2009-05-01
  • Posts: 91

Re: No open sunroofs, but you can cut the roof off?

Borrow the use of someone's welder at the track and weld it in place with 30 minutes left before tech closes... then once you pass tech, buy a case of Tecate to pay for the use of said welder.

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  • From: Cleveland, OH
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Re: No open sunroofs, but you can cut the roof off?

We used a piece of steel cut from a discarded steel shelf and then screwed it to the roof with self tapping screws.

Worked like a charm.

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  • From: oklahoma city
  • Registered: 2009-10-08
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Re: No open sunroofs, but you can cut the roof off?

Spud wrote:

We used a piece of steel cut from a discarded steel shelf and then screwed it to the roof with self tapping screws.

Worked like a charm.

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  • Registered: 2009-05-12
  • Posts: 33

Re: No open sunroofs, but you can cut the roof off?

I tack welded our sunroof in place and it passed tech just fine...but bring liquor just in case.

  • From: Lost Angeles
  • Registered: 2009-04-30
  • Posts: 188

Re: No open sunroofs, but you can cut the roof off?

No amount of booze will help with tech but it might help with the BS judges when it comes to your blatant cheating.

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