Nachtblau CSi on Chasing Classic Cars?

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Forgive me if I’m late to the party. I went back through posts a ways and didn’t see anything.

The latest episode (season 17, episode 4) has F40 Motorsports restoring a sunroof CSi. Spent a few minutes on clogged sunroof drains and features a test drive later in the show. Wayne says the owner is in Florida. Initially came in for paint but they ended up “restoring the whole car.” It certainly looks nice though I’m sure plenty of nits could be picked (Wayne does mention it featuring a 5-speed).
 
Oh that Wayne!

E9 on Chasing Classic Cars

It premiered on the Motor Trend app (subscription required) last night, will be on Motor Trend cable channel next Wednesday 8/11 I believe. Worth a look. A dark blue 73 CSI is in for paint at F40 Motorsports in CT. They talk the owner into redoing the interior and find one of the sunroof drains...
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I saw the episode last night. Wayne seems to really like this particular car and mentioned the increasing market values.

We are in the process of restoring our 1970 2800cs and have the headliner out and car completely stripped. Our 4 sunroof drain lines terminate inside the rockers at the front and back on each side.

I was unaware that the rear ones terminated in the c-pillar vents? Is this true? Was this a change in later models? Does not seem right, at least to me?

jjs2800cs
 
jjs2800cs said:
I saw the episode last night. Wayne seems to really like this particular car and mentioned the increasing market values.

We are in the process of restoring our 1970 2800cs and have the headliner out and car completely stripped. Our 4 sunroof drain lines terminate inside the rockers at the front and back on each side.

I was unaware that the rear ones terminated in the c-pillar vents? Is this true? Was this a change in later models? Does not seem right, at least to me?

jjs2800cs
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I don't believe that is true, but I am having trouble finding my photos to confirm or deny this. I feel that the sunroof vents are separate from the C-pillar vents (two separate lines come down the C-pillar infrastructure). Someone here will confirm or correct me.

For what its worth, the sunroof vents are a plastic tube, whereas the C-pillar vents are a rubber tube. At least they were in my car.
 
I saw that and also questioned the C Pillar Emblem drain.
Searching I found this post which seems to confirm it.

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Dan Wood said:
I saw that and also questioned the C Pillar Emblem drain.
Searching I found this post which seems to confirm it.

The end is near....SCOTTeVEST's Baby

Thank you. This does not include the shock tower wrap material but it is pretty good Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk ordered!!! thanks very much. i hope i can tell the difference. very excited. Well, here we go. After ordering these awhile ago, I just got an email that these won't ship...
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I didn’t revisit Scott’s thread. The front sunroof tubes terminate in the rockers. The rear sunroof tubes terminate in the trunk behind the wheel wells. This is in no way integrated with the c-pillar or rear rocker as @autokunst stated. I confirmed
while dissecting my CSI.

All e9’s (slicktop and sunroof) have a c-pillar drain that terminate in the rockers. I can’t speak to what water collects in this area as it is all encased in steel. The c-pillar does have a vent as you may have noticed. The steel funnel is directly behind this vent (again on all e9’s).
 
Mark:
I certainly might have read this wrong from @Stevehose comment. On Chasing Classic Cars they clearly showed a sunroof drain hose in the C Pillar Roundel. I found it very hard to believe. However if the hose passes thru that area to the wheel well that would make sense but that is not what Carini and his mechanics were saying.
Dan
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Dan Wood said:
Mark:
I certainly might have read this wrong from @Stevehose comment. On Chasing Classic Cars they clearly showed a sunroof drain hose in the C Pillar Roundel. I found it very hard to believe. However if the hose passes thru that area to the wheel well that would make sense but that is not what Carini and his mechanics were saying.
Dan
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I stand humbly corrected. As my car is totally apart right now, yes the c-Pillars drain into the rear rockers. The rear sunroof drains as was correctly pointed out into the truck an out the rear floor behind the rear wheels.

So still do no understand what was going on with the CCC piece. The does not seem to be anyway one could funnel the rear sunroof drain into the c-pillar vent outlet??

jjs2800cs
 
Dan Wood said:
Mark:
I certainly might have read this wrong from @Stevehose comment. On Chasing Classic Cars they clearly showed a sunroof drain hose in the C Pillar Roundel. I found it very hard to believe. However if the hose passes thru that area to the wheel well that would make sense but that is not what Carini and his mechanics were saying.
Dan
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Unfortunately they are incorrect. I’ll be the first to admit (As I did in Scott’s thread) that it *appears this way. I can say with confidence that the drains are mutually exclusive, and the sunroof drains are in the boot. @jjs2800cs confirmed also.
 
Many years ago I extended my (slicktop) drains through the rockers using some plastic tubing. Now that I think of it, lacking a sunroof, where did those tube drains originate?
 
Another classic "where did you find the perfect photo?". Remind me to reach out when I'm putting my car back together and can't recall how something should be.
 
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