1989 White Lightning SX

lucky boy! did you find it at the wreckers or networking??
iv found a couple of good ones at the wreckers in the past. i sold smackdowns my spair a fair while ago.

 

You're Mega Lucky!, 3 yrs and I'm still looking

Good move with the rust, now to do the rest of the car before it disolves
into brown dust

That's where I am with my "new" body, hard work but I want it looking good in 20 yrs

 

And Santa Claus is real !

I'd believe that when I see a picture of the sunroof with the rubber weather strip removed and a closeup shot of the lip of the sunroof. See following pics for example.

Without the weather strip removed this would qualify as a rust free sunroof (best one I've ever seen)


Once the weather strip is removed the ugly truth is revealed






Hope I'm wrong and you truely do have a rust free sunroof but the weather strip is a poor design and means that the lip of the sunroof is in a rubber channel and that channel is a great holder of water, add to that the fact that the sunroof itself is made of 2 pieces of metal bonded together. Unfortuneatly the 2 panels were bonded and then painted meaning that things like the inside surfaces of the 2 pieces of metal on the lip are unprotected metal and that is where the rust always starts. By the time you see rust on the top of the sunroof its garanteed that the lip was where it started unless you get a rock chip.

 

Nice car! I didn't even know that such edition is existing. I'm learning very much from this site

Btw, it's strange that those seats are so rare in Australia. In Europe they are stock in the GT-s (3SGE) and only the ST-s (4AGE) has the non-electric seats.

 

They are the same as the JDM seats too, but the colour and material is unique.

Here's more bad news for sunroof owners -



seems they didn't treat the roof area behind the sunroof either

 

do they make them in glass? the sunroofs.

 

I have never seen one althought that would be ideal. Got 1 of them in my camry.

The EPC only lists 1 part number


Once I get my GTS I got a glass aftermarket sunroof I might put in it.

 

yea cause whats the point of having it when you cant see through it. at least thats what i think. it would make the car look more agressive too.

 

I have complete sunroof mech spare, idea was to transfer it to the tems but after seeing
how the roofs rust and the weight (+-40lb) I've decided the biggest baddest glass roof will
do just fine.

 

Great to see you've still got it. Looking good :thumbsup: Have you got the OZ Racing rims already? Pics? opcorn

 

man that does look sooooo good!