Removing sound deadening

[Grant]

I don't think this has been covered before, so here goes...

Has anyone had any experience with removing the sound deadening underneath the carpets? The horrible bitumen type stuff...

Cheers

[Connor]

Pretty sure it been covered, but heat, scraper, swearing, effort

[Daniel306]

enough heat and it will peel off

[Grant]

I did have a search but it didn't return anything...


So are we talking heat gun heat, or more like a blow torch heat?


Does it leave the floor clean or is it going to look better left in place?

[c.gerrard]

It'll look better left in place, but comes off easy enough with a hammer and chisel, then wire brush on a grinder to finish it nicely

[Dum-Dum]

Nah you want to freeze it off. Wait till its -10 one day this winter and get out early morning with a can of freezer spray and itll chip off easier than with heat cos it goes brittle in the cold.

[Fozzy]

You can leave it looking tidy, using thinners but its a lot of work. (i used heat)

[Niall]

Just leave it. Your not going to save much weight and i know what your like. You'll do one footwell then leave the next

[John1.4]

frozen ftw, comes off in fairly big bits, although as said, it won't weigh an awful lot, better to just take out the spare wheel and replace with a can of tyre weld

[budd]

Just leave it. Your not going to save much weight and i know what your like. You'll do one footwell then leave the next

if you remove it all (from behind the dash etc) you'll be surprised how much it weighs, I got around well over 10kg out of my Impreza the bitumen stuff is very dense and heavy for it's volume if ou want like it's very worthwhile. Removing weight is a free performance gain, there's a point where if you remove enough weight (and I don't just mean the sound deadening everything you don't actually need is deleted) you will begin to feel the benefits you'll feel the car becoming light, it sounds strange but the improvements in dynamics is very noticeable you can actually feel the reduction in mass.
I've always found chipping it off cold better than using heat which makes it sticky
you'll end up with it looking a bit tatty like this

but if you clean off t with thinners and paint it looks a little better

or if you really try a stripped interior can look really nice

but bear in mind that removing all the sound deadening on a road car isn't for the fainthearted the last pic of my old 200SX looks (IMHO) great but this was still mainly a road car and it wasn't the nicest place to be on a long run, the combination of road noise, fixback GRP seats, loud exhaust make cruising on the motorway a very uncomfortable experience.

[Piggy]

10kg....a lot of effort for 10kg where you could save a lot more in places where its easier to get light.

IE, put me in the car...im 60kg. Thats a good 10kg lighter than most other lads on here!

Or just have a good dump before you jump in and dont wear damp jeans or big boots

[budd]

10kg....a lot of effort for 10kg where you could save a lot more in places where its easier to get light.

IE, put me in the car...im 60kg. Thats a good 10kg lighter than most other lads on here!

Or just have a good dump before you jump in and dont wear damp jeans or big boots

10kg is 10kg no matter where it comes from and that's just the tar stuff, plus your a good 30kg lighter than me so I guess I need to try harder than most reducing weight, but your right it assumes you've already removed the more obvious candidates, chipping the sound deadening is pointless if you still have stuff like ICE and A/C etc

[Piggy]

10kg....a lot of effort for 10kg where you could save a lot more in places where its easier to get light.

IE, put me in the car...im 60kg. Thats a good 10kg lighter than most other lads on here!

Or just have a good dump before you jump in and dont wear damp jeans or big boots

10kg is 10kg no matter where it comes from and that's just the tar stuff, plus your a good 30kg lighter than me so I guess I need to try harder than most reducing weight, but your right it assumes you've already removed the more obvious candidates, chipping the sound deadening is pointless if you still have stuff like ICE and A/C etc

and rear seats, seatbelts, airbags, electric windows etc etc etc

[budd]

10kg....a lot of effort for 10kg where you could save a lot more in places where its easier to get light.

IE, put me in the car...im 60kg. Thats a good 10kg lighter than most other lads on here!

Or just have a good dump before you jump in and dont wear damp jeans or big boots

10kg is 10kg no matter where it comes from and that's just the tar stuff, plus your a good 30kg lighter than me so I guess I need to try harder than most reducing weight, but your right it assumes you've already removed the more obvious candidates, chipping the sound deadening is pointless if you still have stuff like ICE and A/C etc

and rear seats, seatbelts, airbags, electric windows etc etc etc

yep the list goes on, but there's a point when the car becomes virtually un-useable on the road, I remember a particular journey to the Isle of Man in my old Nissan SX200, no carpets or sound deadening, no A/C, no radio, no rear seats my 6 month old daughters Recaro baby seat ratchet strapped to the roll cage, straight trough 3" exhaust, paddle clutch etc, etc ,etc the car was well on the way to been a proper race car which is fine for the track but definitely not pleasant on the road, it was like spending 2 hrs in a dust bin with someone hitting it with a stick the wife wasn't best pleased, mind you it was worth when we got there 360bhp, Toyo r888s, lightweight car and no speed limits it's pretty much as good as it gets

[Jonny81191]

Piggy why save weight in other places but not bother doing it right? If stripping the car, every ounce counts. So remove the sound deadening, it's a good 10 kg that's free to remove.

[Piggy]

Piggy why save weight in other places but not bother doing it right? If stripping the car, every ounce counts. So remove the sound deadening, it's a good 10 kg that's free to remove.

Oh yeah, I've done it and would do it again, but if you aint guna remove the obvious bits which just bolt in/out AND keep it looking tidy, then hold off the heat gun and white spirits till then

[Jonny81191]

Have you even seen grants project? It's fairly stripped out

[Grant]

I'm gonna give it a go both ways and report back with which is best

[Piggy]

Fair enough