I just gutted my car and removing all that sound deadening in the front is gonna be a bitch. I heard dry ice works, but where can I get some dry ice? Please give me all the procedures to the best way to remove that piece of crap sound deadening!

I was thinking about just spray painting over the sound deadening to match my interior, but would it be good?

 

you mean that plastic tarp crap?

 

yea

 

Dude, personally, if I were you I would leave that in, along with the carpet. Unless you are building something strictly for the track, it isn't worth it to have to listen to all the noises your car will make without carpet and that other stuff. It isn't that much weight anyway.


Just my opinion. try goof off though, that stuff works good.

 

removing 50lbs isn't good? of course it's good

 

pull the seats, pull up the carpet. Pull the padding out from underneath. Then pull the rubber padding from the firewall area.

20-25 lbs the easy way. I left the factory (now THIN feeling!) carpet in place along with the tar.

 

Dry ice is available at grocery stores, like Publix. Get a bunch, $20 worth, break it up, leave it on the sound deadening for like 10 minutes, then hit it with a mallet and pry it up with a screwdriver. The longer you leave the dry ice on the sound deadening, the easier it will come up.

Also, I went to Sears and bought 4 $3 metal brushes that attach to a drill to scrub off the last remaining parts of the sound deadening (I dn't have phnumatic tools and a large air compressor). The only bad thing is that it also polished off the floor paint where I used the brush -- Not too badly, and I didn't care, because it is just a 92CX shell I was planning to paint the floor of anyway.

 

I agree, unless you're a good enough driver where ~20lbs will make you faster around the track (or your a drag racer -- bah), I wouldn't pull it up either.

 

The dry ice thing works!
Gotta give to B18C5-EH2 for the idea

 

Bah... that idea has been around for quite awhile.

The real cool way to do it (and more expensive, but a lot faster) is to get a NOS bottle and spray it on and hit it with a hammer... it just shatters and comes right off w/out any marks on your car

 

Ha, so there is a use for "NAWSE"

 

I dont care what kind of racing you do. weight is weight. lighter = faster.

Someone brought up a point in regards to road racing though. Because the weight of the tar is so low, it is possible that it raises your center of gravity. But if you end up needing to add ballast to your car, that point becomes moot, because now you can "move" the weight on the corner or end of your car that needs it.