No leaking T-tops and better structural support. I really don't mind a hardtop. My Camaro was a hardtop and I drove that for 8 years. If you wanted to and had the coin, you could convert it to T-tops. But it's rare enough IMO, so just keep it a hardtop. Just think if you ever flipped the car. With T-tops, on or off, you're screwed. LOL. Hardtop just do some slidey-slidey.
__________________ -2000 Maple Red Metallic Trans Am M6 :Kooks LTs, X-pipe w/ Spiral Flows Dumped ,PRC 5.3L Stg 2.5 Heads, Torquer V3, Veng. Prtd FAST 90 & NW TB, SLP Lid, ASCD Hood, UMI STB, SFC, 2x Adj. LCAs/PHB, Raptor, CETA mod, SVO #30s, ASP Pulley, 445 RWHP, 392 ft/lbs
I wouldn't call the two additional bars on the outer edges of the roofline as much support. All the roof structures where the same for both T-top and hardtop fourth-gens.
i have a v-6 hardtop and a 99 ls1 t-top. i wish to god i had bought a hardtop formula i hate my t-tops unless its summer. theres good and bad but id rather have a hardtop. trade e your hardtop lt1 for my t-top ls1 if it makes you that unhappy
hard tops arent bad, the only real advantage is that you dont get leaky t-tops when the seals wear out (which arent expensive or hard to replace) any how it is definately a preference thing, if 530 trans am is serious about the trade and you want t-tops that bad id go with it, but then again ive never owned a hard top f-body. sorry i forgot, one other advantage w/ the hard top is that it is slightly lighter (the sheet metal is lighter than glass) but hey t-tops are funner
In the week or so I have owned my t-top, I haven't taken the covers off yet to really enjor them so in a sense its kind of a hardtop at the moment. I could take them off if I wanted but I still have yet to get anything tinted so that my seats don't roast and unfriendly people don't get any ideas. I say keep the hardtop, you'll make more money when you go to sell it if you run into a collector.
__________________ '99 A4 Arctic White Trans Am "Nightmare"
3.23 Gears, Suncoast WS6 Fully Functional Ram Air Hood/Kit, Black Chrome C6 Wheels, Black 30th Anniversary Stripes, CETA Bumper, Niteshaded Markers and 3rd Brake Light, Tinted DRL's (20%), 20% Windows, !AIR, !EGR, BMR Lowering Springs, Rebuilt Tranny, Dyno Tuned (Hptuners). www.fquick.com/tealfirebirdv6
Something about rolling over and having a roof over my head other then a piece glass makes me feel a little safer. That and no sunburnt head.
__________________ LEP built: 385cu.in STS Turbo'ed '95 Firehawk#584
Supporter of the Leading Edge Performance Built 10sec. street cars
my STS opinion: http://www.ls1tech.com/forums/12485435-post11.html
Something about rolling over and having a roof over my head other then a piece glass makes me feel a little safer. That and no sunburnt head.
T-top shades.
__________________
2000 A4 WS6 Trans Am 396ci - D1-SC - Stalled Auto - 3966lb - 808.65 RWHP 729.95 RWTQ - 9.98 at 130 MPH SOLD 11/09 2001 A4 Trans Am H/C - Stalled Auto - 3650lb - 442 RWHP 403 RWTQ - 11.6 @ 117 MPH (hitting the limiter) SOLD 1998 A4 Trans Am Very mild H/C - Stalled Auto - 3550lb - 396 RWHP 390 RWTQ - 12.0 @ 113 MPH SOLD
I have always felt that a real performance car has a hardtop. I am pleasantly surprised at the newer t-top cars. They don't seem as flimsy, nor is there the dreaded t-top rattle.
Location: Indiana wants me, lord i can't go back there
Posts: 2,092
Quote:
Originally Posted by hawk584
Something about rolling over and having a roof over my head other then a piece glass makes me feel a little safer. That and no sunburnt head.
5% tint on my T-tops
i got sick of the shades because i take my t-tops off a LOT, and they always seemed to want to fall out of the t-top when i would take them off (stupid velcro)
so i got the t-tops tinted about 6 months, ago and my only complaint is, why didn't i do it 3 years ago when i bought the car and had the rest of the windows tinted?
__________________
1995 Black TA A4 LT1
Mods: MSD cap and rotor, MSD wires, NGK plugs, K&N filter, 17" corvette GS replica's, Ram Air and OEM WS6 hood
i got sick of the shades because i take my t-tops off a LOT, and they always seemed to want to fall out of the t-top when i would take them off (stupid velcro)
so i got the t-tops tinted about 6 months, ago and my only complaint is, why didn't i do it 3 years ago when i bought the car and had the rest of the windows tinted?
Yea, the whole time I was in AZ I was thinking dam I could take my t-tops off and never put them on...lol
i mean when they are off. my bad, i should have put that in there
__________________ LEP built: 385cu.in STS Turbo'ed '95 Firehawk#584
Supporter of the Leading Edge Performance Built 10sec. street cars
my STS opinion: http://www.ls1tech.com/forums/12485435-post11.html
HardTop 
