Targa brace

[sportriderseattle]

thanks for sharing your creation with all of us! that's a great idea you came up with. Can you answer a couple issues about the design? 1) how much does the entire brace weigh? 2) where the brace sits and touches the existing rubber gasket weather stripping on the front and back parts of the roof, is there additional weather stripping on the underside of the brace to make contact with the original weather stripping? (concern about the bare metal damaging the existing weather stripping).

thanks in advance for your clarification