Is it worth it guys to gut the insides of a GSR!? Only reason im asking is because I had to replace the sunroof couple hours ago, which was a pain in the ***, but lucky for me a buddy of mine helped me out and so did my neighbor who owns a DA.

It got dark and I still dont have a shop light so I put back the side panels and bolted back the headliner. I just left the back seats out along with the trunk carpeting and it LOOKS like some drag car. Other than weight reduction, what is it good for? What are the pros and cons of having nothing in the back!?

 

One advantage would be in summer heat and sunlight, you won't be damaging the rare da inner plastic peices in the rear. Especially rare GSR plastics and whatever that dash material is I forget. Usually, over time, they start to fade, especially in the back because it is plastic and not that special interior material they use.

 

thats what armoral is for once a week and UV won't do **** to it my interior still looks as good if not better than it was brand new. If you are really bored and want to spend the time to gut the interior then by all means have at it personally i think it looks beyond tacky and wouldn't ever do that to my car but thats just me

 

other then weight, i dont really see any gains at all, if you got the 2dr coupe, then you got yourself a bed with the back seats folded down. i think thats reason enough to leave the interior in

 

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Yes hahaha

 

Well, I just came off having a gutted DA and it was fun for a while. It felt slightly lighter and more responsive, but your only saving 50 lbs or so. You can hear gravel and stones hitting the underside of the car which is very raw sounding, and your exhaust note is definetely more pronounced inside the car. After a while though, I put the entire interior back in, and really enjoyed having a more solid car. It just generally felt better around town and in general.

Try it for a while and see if you like it!

 

I was gutted for a few years and I just recently am going with full interior again. I had to put my rear seatbelts in and I removed my c-pillar bar for safety. I haven't had a back seat and complete interior since 2002! I can't wait! Gutted was fun though.

 

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I really hope that you don't just use Armoral on your interior pieces. They just came into my body shop the other day selling this new product. It's made for vinl and plastic. The old stuff is suppose to dry it out and make it crack over time.

 

I don't think it's really worth it, unless it is a drag car.

And than people just get silly with it, spending hours using dry ice to remove sound deadening material under the carpet. Again, that is usualy for all out drag cars.

Your car came with interior for the street, use it

 

The only advantage to gutting the car is for weight reduction and if all you do is remove the rear seats you haven't removed enough weight to notice anything.

If your going to gut your car, do it right and take everything out, but I wouldn't reccomend it if it is your daily.

Mine's gutted, but it also spends 95% of the time in the garage

 

Its useless having a daily driver gutted, its just not practical.

 

Yeah, gutting your car is not a good idea.. you might save 50 pounds... whoopty doo, now you have a white trash car, that is a piece of garbage.....

 

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goota tested and approved

 

cmon cricket, you really going to take out your interior?

wont it look like **** because all of the sound deadening in the car?



leave the interior

 

Pros: a little bit lighter... you'll be lucky if you notice the different at all, unless you go all-out and then it'll turn into a race car at that point.

Cons: looks ghetto and cheap, it's loud, you can't have passengers in the back, you'll have a whole bunch of interior pieces laying around your garage/house (which will get scratched,etc. as they lay around), and you'll have to waste more time putting it all back in when you realize it was a bad idea.

 

I've done it before. Just to see the difference in throttle response. Keep the interior in if it's a decent daily driver. Take it out if it's a race car or piece of crap.

 

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Not specifically armoral I used that as a universal meduim i.e some kind of protectant knowing the intelligence or lack thereof some people here I could have listed some sort of vinyl protectant and i guarantee someone would have replyed with What is that or who makes it. I use Meguiars interior protectant.

 

For a while I drove w/ no back seats, B/C I HAD NONE...

Soon as I got them, threw them in, to me, made my car look cleaner...

Keep them in (if you want)...


Modified by Project95LS-VTEC (G) at 9:13 PM 8/20/2007

 

Hey man lots of haters on this site. I say go for it, but do it right and paint everything up nice. You won't be able to put people in your back seats? Who fills up a teg regularly with 4 people, yeah thats what i thought, not many. I'll agree that it will look white trash if you just take out the back seats, but if you do it right i think that look makes the car look good, and you will be saving some weight too. Just my 2 cents, do you want and don't let H-T hate get to you.

 

Hate? Nobody's hating, it's called advice, not 'hate'. haha...

 

well if you use it as a drag car it would be okay but if you need a car to hall people then your oout of luck i would opout it back in it doesnt add that much weight an it makes the car look better because it complete

 

Depends on the person. If your car is laying on the floor(slammed) with a $2,000 suspension system that works at the dramatic height and it's a daily. Then you really notice the difference when you gut it right and take out all the deadening and everything. On a DA, you can then tuck the wires in the trunk underneath the metal and have a really clean look. Then remove the sunroof mechanism and motor witch is another 50lbs by itself and plug it with carbon fiber... before you know it, this thing's a feather. Even if it's your daily, not everyone has the pleasure of having a car to daily, and a race car to have fun with, so if a daily'd race car is what you gotta do, then do it. Weight reduction added with the right combination of reinforcement and suspension can work wonders. Although everything would be louder, who wants to drive a car they can't hear anyway? How boring. Like your floating on air. It's good to hear what your car's doing.

 

Hey thanks guys for the ADVICE. I didn't take anyones opinions as "hate". I mean it's your opinion so if you say it sucks then thats on you. If not then that cool with me too.

I really haven't chose what to do in the future about gutting my car but I have been looking at a lot of pictures of different integras and it does look cleaner with the back seats in. But on the other hand I have seen really nice set-ups where they have a black teg, black recaros and black interior (painted black as well to match the exterior) with no back seats, panels towards the back, and sound deadening.

Once my build is done then I will rethink about what the hell I should do with the interior.

Appreciate the comments guys.

 

If you have every aspect of your car done nice then a gutted interior can look good, but only if you have some nice race seats, roll cage, super nice suspension, new paint inside and out to match, etc. Otherwise it just looks like you were looking for cheap ghetto speed. Plus, at that point (rollcage, race seats, super stiff suspension, noisy engine) you don't have much comfort left anyway, and you don't care anyway because the car hauls ***, so then whole comfort/noise issue with gutted interior doesn't matter.

 

Yeah gutted interiors are not bad when done right, tucked wires and all the bells and whistles. My DA has been gutted like a fish for a good while now... minus the dry ice the sound deadening ****. And that bitch gets like a ******* oven in the summer and cold like an ice box in the winter. I'm in the process of restoring the interior back to O.G.