Yup, i wolk up this morning and decided that im gonna cut a big hole in the roof of the box....

anyone have canvas manual slider in the car... i need some exact info on that perticular kind of roof...

waterproof? airtight? (doubtful, but how bad is it)... easy operation? ya know the basics... any pics would help

 

Yipes--what a project!!

 

yup, im dont with the little stuff, time to get stupid

 

how will u b able to laptop navigate the mattress now? :D

 

ill have to cross that bridge when i get there

 

well good luck

 

thanks......

I do just fine ESPECIALLY WITH ALL THE HELP IM GETTIN FROM HERE

 

Well, I must of had the same dream...
And I found your post when I searched "sunroof"
Any info?

 

apparently we are the only ones crazy enough to do it

but this is what i ordered

http://www.streetbeatcustoms.com/slidragtop401.html

 

I can tell you that I talked to streetbeat. Of corse they said it would be no problem. They Also told me they had done xBs before, without incident. I've wanted to do the same thing for a long time. But the long term effects of it have me worried.

There was a post here in SL of someone installing a large slider. But the guy never really posted again. I was thinking about a bigger one then redneck either 35x70 or 40x70 or 40x55, I want it roof sized.

 

good luck with this...post pics when you are done!

 

yep, I second the good luck, maybe someone having success with this will convience me to finally do it.

 

has anyone chopped an xB before and gone open-roof? lol

 

Here is the Webasto folding fabric model:
http://s49.photobucket.com/albums/f2...ing%20Sunroof/

I considered it, but heard it was not watertight in a carwash where spray came from the sides, and my local Webasto dealer did not want to install one. The warranty is not long, the whole thing is not as durable as an inbuilt sunroof, and I think the integrity of the roof may be somewhat reduced by the large opening. So I sent with this Webasto model:
http://s49.photobucket.com/albums/f2...%20and%20Dash/

One thing I don't like about sunroofs is the floating headliner. The factory headliner is solid, a carpet material bonded to a rigid shell. After a sunroof, your old headliner shell goes back in with a huge hole cut in it for the opening plus rear frame. You get a floating headliner made of fabric stretched taut across the sunroof frame to the edges of the roof. It flutters a little at high speed with the sunroof open, and can be punched through if you are not careful.

One company, Inalfa, is making sunroofs for at least one car (Mustang) using solid headliners. I think they provide pre-molded fillets to glue to the factory shell, to build up around the sunroof frame, so that carpet material can be bonded to the headliner shell again.

 

One of the SE-Detroit members has a very nice sun roof in his box. His screen name is Malthorn, the roof is sweet. I can't recall which brand, but I will post pics if I find one.

Edit: Here is the link to his pics. Looks great in person as well.

http://se-detroit.com/gallery/index.php?cat=10066

 

This guy did it

 

I thought about something just as nucking futs - how about a skylight in the box? It'd be the size of the roof (with maybe 5 or 7 inches away from the corners of the car - but made entirely of plexi-glass.... it won't open, but it would look insane! i'd ad some sort of visor to the bottom/inside however to cover up when the sun is beating down on us...

gl with your project,
- sh00k

 

I think that is a Webasto Panoramic. I heard there were problems and Webasto stopped making that model for the xB: https://www.scionlife.com/forums/vie...ight=panoramic
I had a Webasto regular sunroof installed: http://s49.photobucket.com/albums/f2...%20and%20Dash/

 

theres a write up in the tech sec. on how to do it! look there!