*Sound Deadening Removal*New to club4ag and ae86 community!
Posted: Thu May 28, 2015 8:58 am
I just want to start off by saying that I love this forum and the community behind it. I have owned an s13 for a while, but I never joined nicoclub or zilvia because the amount of trolls and sarcasm I see on their boards. The way that you 86 owners always have eachother's backs is what drew me to this club!
So here is the story... about 2 weeks ago I stumbled upon an ae86 rolling shell for 200 dollars while looking for s13 parts on craigslist. A couple days later, my buddy and I put some change together and now this thing is sitting on my driveway just begging for a motor!
Currently we are giving it a facelift before we just toss in a new blacktop or silvertop. We started with the already gutted interior.
Materials:
30 lbs dry ice
6 x 32 oz 91% rubbing alcohol
Some putty spatula's
A good set of gloves
For detail work:
Chisel (or flathead)
Hammer
sandpaper
Time
Paint
The first step was dry icing the sound deadening. (Use 64 oz rubbing alc for every 10 lbs dry ice for best concistency.)
Crush the dry ice until it is in very small bits in an old bucket and pour the rubbing alcohol in. Make sure you get a thick pasty substance and work quickly
*Note: crushing the dry ice THOROUGHLY before putting in the rubbing alcohol will save time, effort, and you might use less material as a result. We missed this step.
Spread thick paste across the sound deadening, let sit for 30 seconds and listen to the cracking.
As soon as you stop hearing popping sounds, move the existing paste to the next piece of sound deadening and apply more to that one as needed
Repeat until whole car is done
Then begin lifting pieces, they WILL come off in HUGE sheets. I was totally impressed with this method. I have never had a youtube method of doing things work so painlessly.
Last, some areas may be more stubborn than others, especially if they are rotted out.
Use leftover dry ice/ alcohol to isolate the areas and chip away with a chisel.
And now you are at bare metal, the bones of your 86!
We are now in the process of sanding it all down in prep for paint. We are thinking about shaving some existing screw holes and things with bondo, but are unsure. What do you guys think?
P.s. I will be posting pictures of the whole process this afternoon if anyone actually reads this post. It may not be the best but I just wanted to try and make my first one because this is a big project for us and im sure some other newbie may be able to learn from out experiences along the way!
Thanks for reading, feedback welcome!
So here is the story... about 2 weeks ago I stumbled upon an ae86 rolling shell for 200 dollars while looking for s13 parts on craigslist. A couple days later, my buddy and I put some change together and now this thing is sitting on my driveway just begging for a motor!
Currently we are giving it a facelift before we just toss in a new blacktop or silvertop. We started with the already gutted interior.
Materials:
30 lbs dry ice
6 x 32 oz 91% rubbing alcohol
Some putty spatula's
A good set of gloves
For detail work:
Chisel (or flathead)
Hammer
sandpaper
Time
Paint
The first step was dry icing the sound deadening. (Use 64 oz rubbing alc for every 10 lbs dry ice for best concistency.)
Crush the dry ice until it is in very small bits in an old bucket and pour the rubbing alcohol in. Make sure you get a thick pasty substance and work quickly
*Note: crushing the dry ice THOROUGHLY before putting in the rubbing alcohol will save time, effort, and you might use less material as a result. We missed this step.
Spread thick paste across the sound deadening, let sit for 30 seconds and listen to the cracking.
As soon as you stop hearing popping sounds, move the existing paste to the next piece of sound deadening and apply more to that one as needed
Repeat until whole car is done
Then begin lifting pieces, they WILL come off in HUGE sheets. I was totally impressed with this method. I have never had a youtube method of doing things work so painlessly.
Last, some areas may be more stubborn than others, especially if they are rotted out.
Use leftover dry ice/ alcohol to isolate the areas and chip away with a chisel.
And now you are at bare metal, the bones of your 86!
We are now in the process of sanding it all down in prep for paint. We are thinking about shaving some existing screw holes and things with bondo, but are unsure. What do you guys think?
P.s. I will be posting pictures of the whole process this afternoon if anyone actually reads this post. It may not be the best but I just wanted to try and make my first one because this is a big project for us and im sure some other newbie may be able to learn from out experiences along the way!
Thanks for reading, feedback welcome!