Carbon Sunroof

[Coyoteboy]

Dya think a carbon fibre sunroof would look out of place on a white car? I already have black bonnet vents (side ones, considered making the centre scoop plastic black too but got told it would look like a panda by the OC) so now im thinking a carbon roof might not look ideal.

[paul_gt4]

it would be something different but its hardly weight saving like

[Coyoteboy]

You felt the weight of those sunroofs? Theres a good 4 or 5Kg in one of them! (I secretly just wanted to try vac-bagging with some spare carbon I have).

[paul_gt4]

yeah but all your going to change is the lid are you not and there is no more than half a kilo in that

[Coyoteboy]

Not sure when you last took one off but the one i have in my garage (unbolted from the mechanism and swapped due to rust) weighs somewhere around the 4kilo mark, lid alone. Either way, it wasnt meant as a weight saver lol.

[peterp1per]

i think it's a nice idea tbh.

i'd quite like one bolted in mine 

[Coyoteboy]

Well if I pull off a decent attempt I might knock a few up for cost price, not trading or any such thing. Ive done a few composite kiteboards but never made a mould of a body panel before, so it could get messy

[paul_gt4]

would never have thought it would have been that heavy...... my last four never came with one and my sainz is fitted with one but never had any reason to pull it apart YET

[Coyoteboy]

Just to be anal I'll weigh it tomorrow morning. Maybe I've just become limp wristed

[paul_gt4]

don't want to know how

[Coyoteboy]

Well, my scales came up with "Err" so i supported one end on the fruit bowl at the height of the scales to halve the weight and it still came up "Err" and I've no way of 1/3ing the weight accurately so I just lifted the middle a litthe (maybe 1/2 a kilo of force) and the scales popped back into life at 2.5Kg so I'd take a guess at 5+Kg for the skin alone.

[paul_gt4]

jeez thats mad never thought it would be that heavy