Removing Side Glass And Trim Intact?

[Chris Wilson]

I was helping break an R33 GTR for bits today, and saw it still had a good rear screen and a food pair of rear quarter glasses and trims intact. I am building a race car and want to fit Lexan 1/4 glasses and a Lexan rear screen, but need the trims. As far as I know Nissan only sell the trims for the 1/4 glasses with the glass itself. has anyone got any tips to removing the 1/4 windows and a rear screen without damage to glass or trims? Thanks.

[darrinspencer]

Remove the 1/4 windows from the inside the car using a sharp utility knife and slowly cut thru the glue and not damage the trims.

When you get to the corners they usual have plastic locating pins that clip into the body for easy quick alignment and hold the glass in place until the glue sets. You will most likely need to cut thru these.

I recently did a stagea windows and they are similar with the trims part of the window with a price of approx $700AU per side. R33 will be a bit cheaper. So take your time.

The rear window can be done the same way. The exterior trim is seperate to the glass and has 2 parts. It has the outer mould that you can see and should pull out with some effort. they normally stretch and can break, so take your time. There is also a retainer that is double sided taped to the body. You can probably cut this out, clean it up and replace the double sided tape, or you may find you can just leave it on the car.

I think the mould and retainer from memory was approx $250-300AU.

Just take your time and don't over flex the glass