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Originally Posted by Duc Hunter
Steve…..looking great. I bet you can’t wait to get her back!
Have whoever does your windshield give us a blow by blow of how he gets the trim shaped so there is no leakage. Lots of recent threads of people struggling with that.  |
After talking to Tyson Schmidt, I've decided I'm going to fit in a new 993 windshield. This would accomplish two things, reduction of wind noise from the flatter seal, and stiffen the chassis overall because the windshield should act as a stiffening diaphragm for the chassis, because it is bonded to the frame with windshield urethane, vs the original windshield is just floating in a rubber seal. Since the windshield needed would need to be the antenna version, and I'd want it with the green tinted strip on top, that glass would actually be less expensive than an antenna version for G-body. The windshield installer, Frank from New Era Auto Glass here in Los Angeles has probably installed thousands of 911 windshields over the decades, and has done many 993 windshield installs in G bodies and he's the only one myself and Perfect Lines would confidently trust in this kind of install. And if it ever needs to be replaced, Frank says it's easy for him to cut out and reinstall a replacement, just as any modern car today.
Although if I wanted to install the original type windshield for a G-body, we had a discussion about that and he did say regarding the rubber seals, they all fit different (factory Porsche, German made, URO, etc.) and the only one he trusts and uses is the German made from a supplier such as SSF.
In any case, when the windshield is installed, I'll upload pics.