Silvia Club of NSW

Yes mine is kinda stupid striped. I have been to the extent to cutting the loom off and re-wiring only the bare essentials like tail lights and indicators. Bare in mind this started as a complete and pretty much drivable S13.

Behind the dash guys there is a massive thick rubber mat. It weighs 6 Kg's with the insulation and everything attatched. Definitly worth pulling the dash, heater, A/C etc all out to remove it

Behind my dash I now have absolutly nothing. There is no wiring no anything. I have mounted my coils and stuff where the heater core used to be. Im using a little fuse box with 7 fuses instead of that big ass heavy thing as well.

Dave my car cranks over now. I forgot to run a wire for the fuel pump trigger so it won't fire up but it will very shortly. Then the engine will be coming back out again.

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behind the rubber matt.. theres all this insulation stuff.. is any of that a potential hazard brad?

What removing it or leaving it there??

Its put on the inside of the firewall to reduce NVH or road noise etc as you would know it as.

Its not a hazard no.

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ye i mean removing it without a mask sorry

I see lots of glass, a centre bonnet lock support and can't see any evidence of taking an angle grinder to the bodywork. Still a wimps stripping job Brad

No more glass in her now greg.
bonnet catch is all gone as to is the support and headlight supports.
Its kinda annoying the weight you take out is mearly put back in with bracing and a roll cage

Can't take to this car with a grinder you know the rules

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this is simply a great job to begin with. how much weight have you saved by removing the stuff under the floor carpet? i was thinking of removing the sound deadening material but i reckon it'll be a heck of a job and i'ld have to go to the extent that you've gone to get it done.

how hard is it to peel off those sound deadening stick-ons?

cheers

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you will have to chip it off.


did you just use degreaser fly180 and it just came off?

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Karbon, i think all up it would have been about 20odd kgs in sound deadener and rubber matt stuff. But once everything is out (spare tyre, tools, speakers, rear panels etc etc) it DOES make a huge difference. I just used a hair dryer and a scraper, and for tight places just a hammer and screwdriver. That said, its an absolute b*tch of a job, and i really wouldn't want to do it again anytime soon.

Chiba, yup, supercheap degreaser ($1.20 a can) after scraping the deadener off. Spray it on, let sit for a few secs, then wipe like hell. Repeat about a million or so times and you will be left with clean metal.

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yep a million times sounds about right

cheers mate i might give that a go, i didnt use dry ice, just a scraper and now i have little patches of sd everywhere.

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Heat it up. It'll come out a little bit easier.

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I think a battle of the weighbridge might be in order, who can get the lightest S chassis with a full cams approved cage

You build the car to IPRA regs and we will see what happens.

Some of the rules suck big time but are there for a reason.

I rekon it will go under the tonne easily but time will tell.
Depends a lot on the cage design as well. Im running full side intrusions and rear webbing. Could have saved a lot by sticking with a half cage but thats not much fun.

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