Dont exactly know WHY i did this, but i took the carpet out to do like a better cleaning and all, but something about the dynomat drove me crazy and i was driven to remove it, and also found nise sized wholes in my chassis, o well.....

felt like my car was gettin fat so i put her on a diet

BEFORE:






AFTER:
looks so much cleaner too







acetone didn't help, so i ended up using a heat gun and some off-the-shelves putty knives....i scraped a lil bit of the paint off so i just sprayed with some red..i know it doesnt match but whatever its red..its close enough.....burnt my hand a couple times with the heat gun too...o well..time to head out to a nice ol' x-mas family dinner

merry x-mas and a happy new year


Modified by pr3d at 12:59 AM 12/27/2005

 

actually I did this to mine as well to. I made a post on how to remove this on my crx too well its very easy when its cold but omg this is a pain in the *** but in the long run it looks a hell of alot better but now that I got carpet now I cant even see it anymore. But yes my crx looks like that too. Good Job looks good. but yes this was a pain in the ***. Dont ever try this in the summer it aint happen whatso ever especially if you live in the state of florida.

 

haha yea..i read about using dry-ice and just shattering it to pieces....that probably would've worked better too..but i just picked up the gun today and said *** it and 3 hours later...i was done..so not too bad i guess

 

Nice work, and nice shift ****

 

good job

 

looks good, but next time use the dry ice. no mess/smell, 15 mins, and you can have a beer while you wait for it to freeze

 

wow 15 minutes huh I did mine with a sharp pry bar and it took me like 2 days and my wrist were hurting from holding that damn thing like that for two days dry ice huh. maybe I will do it like that next time.

 

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yeah, i've done it both ways too. never again...

just make sure you drink your whole beer and let it freeze well.

 

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o yea i've been wanting to know what shift **** is that? its leather wrapped..i'll take some pics of it if someone can identify it for me..ty

 

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o yea i've been wanting to know what shift **** is that? its leather wrapped..i'll take some pics of it if someone can identify it for me..ty</TD></TR></TABLE>
It appears to be a '99-00 Civic Si/'97-01 Prelude Type-SH ****. Same **** I have in my CRX

 

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Dry ice is avaiable at your local welding supply shop

Well atleast up here, its avaiable at the same place i get my welding supplys/gas etc.

 

i got mine at a party supply place. also available at ice cream and other food packing places, and (duh) dry ice mfg's.

i asked for scrap (they can't sell the stuff that isn't in nice blocks) and they gave me 30lbs for free. it felt like the right amount after doing it. about a large paper groccery bag full.

 

how much wieght do you actually save by doing this? im not sure if i want to do it unless its a big differnce

 

mine was 28lbs. i have a pic somewhere on the bathroom scale- i'll post later if i find it.

the only time i'd leave it is if you are underweight for a race class, as it it is in a good location if you need ballast.

 

wow i just dont seem to think that there is that much wieght with that... i dont mind the wieght being toward the bottom of the car tho...

 

wow close to 30 pounds....thats more then i thought...but all in all i'm all over the light-weight chassis....how much louder will my car be now? i know i've pretty much killed all comfort levels of this car and the fully functional sun/moon roof is going out next....that ***** weighs a lot too..so

 

32ish in the crx si sunroof iirc

so come on- who has a empth crx hatch to weigh?

 

I used the dry ice. Ten minutes to do the hole project.

 

i did this myself. I used a pry bar and a rubber mallet, thats it. It just broke apart and went flying everywhere.

http://www.crxcommunity.com/vi...light=

Not counting what flew out of the car Im up to 10.8 lbs, not including any of the padding off the firewall.

 

I left it in mine, doesnt look so bad in a silver car. Plus I haul **** in mine and dont want to scrape it up and deal with rust n blah blah.

 

my HF didnt have any... glad for that

 

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HFs only have some sock in the front wheel wells.

I did the opposite in my car I put in ~60lbs of Mass Loaded Vinyl on my floor, and then Deadening in the doors, etc.

It shouldn't be much louder, the deadeners here are mass loaders, they add weight to the panels to keep down the ressonance of the metal panels. They do marginally block sound, but that's not the primary function.

 

I'm planning on doing this soon, if you live near or go to a University with a good science department you can use liquid nitrogen... I know a lab where I can get a dewer full for free. Should be even faster than the dry ice, just pour it in the floorpans and it will freeze that **** instantly. Might not even have time for a full beer!

 

Greg, you did it in the black CRX? How was the difference when you put the interior back in, really loud? I would imagine the carpet and panels take a lot of the noise (the sand noise and crap coming off the road, like a certain gutted hatch I've driven recently).

 

I just used an air hammer with a flat bit on the end, works good, probably not as well as dry ice but better than doing it by hand.