I dont know about the rest of you with a sunroof, but I wish I had bought my 03 evo w/o the sunroof. As mod my car further, I'd love to get all that weight off of the roof.

I know a guy who can make a carbon fiber roof panel for our evo's which replaces the steel roof. Would lead to a tremendous weight savings off the highest point on our cars. I've seen him do it for a Porche 911, and once painted, you coultn't tell the difference from stock at all! Looked great!. His work with carbon fiber is top notch; I've seen some of the trunks he's done for BMW's and it looked awesome.

I'm trying to guage interest in something like this. To make it happen, he'd have to purchase a roof panel from Mitsu to make the mold or whatever for the carbon fiber. He'd need to be able to sell a few in order to make it worthwhile.

How many of you would be interested at a price around $1000? I'll try to post a pic of the porche roof soon.

 

man.. i wished i had a sun roof.. you'll miss the sun roof.. hahah

 

Yeah until you FLIP OVER and get crushed..... I would not do this mod unless you have a Cage.


Even Ferrari's have steel roofs

 

how would you get crushed when you flip over?

you would actually bounce off with cf roof.

Which ferrari's have roofs? Most ferrari's I know have alumium or carbon fiber roofs.

 

How about something like this?


M3 CSL roof

Are we talking about wet or dry CF? How are you planning to attach it?

BTW -- there is an 'S' in Porsche

 

how would you deal with the sunroof? ..

 

www.cftype.com

they are located in socal and have done a 240sx for HCI magazine

i talked to the owner and he does them for $1200.. i'll eventually do it, i just gotta get the car over there

 

You flip over, it'll crack and crush in easilly. Many Lambos and Ferrairs have Steel roofs/Doors to prevent this.

 

i want to skin my roof with cf......

 

1200 installed? i'd do that... but yeah how would you attach? I've looked into changing the roof, the windshield and rear window will most likely have to come off.

 

The mod does not affect the frame of the car, so would not affect the structural rigidity etc of the vehicle.

 

Thanks for the pic - I didn't do a very good job of describing what I meant. As far as attatching it goes, I dont know how it was done. Just want to see if there's enough interest to make it worthwhile.

Oh and thanks - I thought there was something a little funny about how I was spelling Porsche!

 

it would be hot, if you could do that with cf hood and the trunk. I was thinking about this for my prelude for the longest time, but no cf roof for any import cars anywhere before.

 

Seems like an a lot of money and time to change your roof. How much weight are you actully saving

 

probably 30,. 40 pounds?