fastback interior stripping

[super_hicas]

i have a 91 SE fastback and im really thinking about taking out all the interior stuff especially the carpeting. ive seen alotta show cars do that and it looks so clean but im wondering if it gives any discomfort in driving. would it make noise with the plastic panels and stuff? also if someones already done this, let me know what kinda toolz ill be needing. any tips. :help thanks.

[yeswepromise]

stripping interior makes lots of road noise!!!!!!!

[240_Keyy]

not that much if you have a loud exhaust and drive with the windows down anyway

[timmybgood]

it'll save a whole lotta weight, when i get my coupe i'm gonna take out the rear seats, gut the whole car, then get some of the carpet that goes on sub boxes and use spray glue to hold it down, so the car won't look like ***

[trpower7]

It won't save jack for weight. Carpet weighs next to nothing. Your seats are syrofoam. The interior is just alot of plastic panels. The whole interior including rear seats doesn't weigh any more than 45ish pounds. I pulled my whole interior and weighed it, I know. It makes your car INSANELY loud to drive in. Everything rattles, everything squeaks, every bump in the road is like a cannon going off. If you have an exhaust it will make the entire interior rattle constantly. Also there is glue, adhesives, little strips of sound dampening that can't be removed, all over the place. It will look ANYTHING but clean. Drive your car with a half tank of gas all the time, a quarter tank even, drain your windshield washer fluid, buy a smaller battery, take out the radio, take off the dash, take out the consoles, remove the cruise control, etc, if you're obsessed about weight savings.

[Toahk]

trpower7, can you email me please.

[Drakon]

45ish pounds matters. I droped my 1/4 time by almost 1/2 a second by taking my side seat out of my integra. if ur drifting thou...more balance overall is better. depends on what u want. to light in the back is bad for drifting right? sorry i just assume, i dont drift (yet)

[Drakon]

and i dont own a 240 yet but it cannont make THAT much noise! dude ur making it sound like ur ripping of ur whole exhaust and going strait from ur headers to the open air. super > do whatever you want man, and u shouldnt need any tools other than the stuff u should have in ur toolbox. k man, DO IT but dont take stuff out you cant put back.

[yeswepromise]

Quote »Also there is glue, adhesives, little strips of sound dampening that can't be removed, all over the place.[/quote] oh???? this statement is false. sound deadening CAN be removed. hammer and chisel or hammer and dry ice. i guarantee all of those can be removed.

[trpower7]

Yes, it CAN be removed, it's a gigantic PITA and will probably leave adhesive strips and some other marks. They are very thin tightly glued pieces of sound deadening. And yes people, it DOES make that much noise, it turns the entire inside of the car into one big resonating chamber. On a coupe or something it wouldn't make as much of a difference, but on a fastback car with a completely open interior stripping it makes the entire thing a big echo chamber. Your exhaust now resonates through the whole thing instead of being stopped by the carpet at the floor. You can save that much weight easily by doing other things like I said before. If this is anything but a track/drag car I gaurentee you'll regret doing it.

[super_hicas]

already done. it was quite easy. only took a couple hours. had to take out the center console and all the seats. it looks great and feels like so much room. losing a inch and a half of padding off the ground. i love it. its not even loud. i dont get any road noises. i just took out the carpeting not the tar like stuff. anyways. when i took out my seats i noticed my driver side seat had this plug. only the driver side has it. i was wondering what it was. anyone know?

[super_hicas]

oh thats smart. dry ice. we stripped the interior in my friends first gen rx-7 and that **** was a mess. dry ice would have helped alot. damn, why didnt any of us thinkof that.

[sil80drifter]

What does dry ice do? How do you use it to help remove interior?

sil80

[trpower7]

I assume that by putting dry ice on a piece that is heavily glued in it would cause rapid cooling and therefore rapid expansion, at which point you could wedge something underneath it and likely pop it off. You could also try to use a heat gun to melt respective adhesives. 90% of the interior pulls of with pop-rivets or unscrews. I've pulled two interiors, it's easily done with hand tools, just don't force anything.

[sil80drifter]

You mean rapid contraction; heat makes expansion, cold makes contraction (usually). Interesting, but I'll have to try it myself I guess. Where do you guys get dry ice?

sil80

[SRdave240]

You can get dry ice at most Walmarts. I didn't gut my interior but I did remove all the sound deadenting tar under the rear seats and from the hatch. I gathered it all and weighed it when done - saved about 28 lbs. Not bad for about 3 hrs worth of work. Mine came up easy probably because it was cold out and it was on an 89 model. My car isn't running yet so I don't know about sound (see sig)

[sil80drifter]

If you plan to go SR, I want dibs on ur timing cover from SOHC

sil80

[Xero]

cold contract until a certain point, then it expands (I actually learned something in science class) I thought that water would continually contract the colder it got, but take a bottle of water, and throw it in the freezer, the water will expand when it turns to ice,

[NeedCAforS13]

water is weird...most materials don't act like water when frozen...in fact i think water is the only material that expands when frozen...

Sean

[groundhogday1976]

anyways. when i took out my seats i noticed my driver side seat had this plug. only the driver side has it. i was wondering what it was. anyone know?

I believe that's a plug for a power seat. It's easier for the factory to wire all the cars the same and just put different seats in rather than having different wiring for power seat-equipped and non-equipped cars.

[groundhogday1976]

water is weird...most materials don't act like water when frozen...in fact i think water is the only material that expands when frozen...

Sean

Even weirder is the fact that water is densest @ 39.2 deg. F (4 deg. C). Above that it loses density, below that it loses density.

[sil80drifter]

Correct. This appllies to water only, and water based solubles. Pay attention in science class

sil80

[super_hicas]

ya'll some smartass motherfawkers arent ya'll?

[super_hicas]

I believe that's a plug for a power seat. It's easier for the factory to wire all the cars the same and just put different seats in rather than having different wiring for power seat-equipped and non-equipped cars.

so right now since i dont have power seats it does nothing? no need to even plug it in?

[trpower7]

I did mean rapid contraction, dry ice should cause the tar or other sheets to rapidly contract, breaking the glue seals. That plug is for the power seats, no need to plug it in, although for some reason I remember it being for the seat belt light, but either way it doesn't affect anything.......