The day after the Silvia got home, I began tearing out all the worn and unsightly interior and it soon looked like this. I guess it’s hard to expect 25 year old carpet to be in any better condition than it was. Either way, the original carpet wasn’t staying, so I ditched the lot and went for a painted floor.
I’d heard about using dry ice to remove sound deadener and was interested to see how well it worked. That’s 5kg in the foot well, which cost around $50. You would need about twice that to get a normal car done, but I’d already had a go at the passenger side using blocked dry ice to test it out. You just sit the ice on the sound deadener for 5-10 minutes, give it a light tap with a hammer and it breaks away.
The results were extremely impressive. This is one of the 3 chunks that came out of the boot, basically on its own. If I were to do it again I’d buy 20kg straight up and not waste any time. It works that well.
I used an epoxy enamel paint which worked great. The cold weather made it a little difficult as the majority of it had to be done at night, but I managed to get a top coat on during the day.
Things are looking and smelling a whole lot better now, I’m glad I took the effort to get this job out of the way early. I still haven’t had it the car running yet, so I’m working hard to get it wired up, so I can work on the real issues.
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