were do I get dry ice, would it be realy hard to just chizle it out with a hammer?

 

Check phone listings for dry ice. If its cold enough up there you will probably have pretty good luck with a hammer and wide chisel

 

yea it gets belowe freezing here every now and then how cold of a day do I need?

 

if you leave the car outside one night when thier no rain or snow leave the windows down,it will get cold enough , i live in ny and thats what i did a couple day ago

 

when I hit it with the hammer will it just shater If I leave it out on a night belowe freezeing?

 

Pretty much, it won't take much for most of it. I've found the area around body seams will be tougher and some of the passenger side where the exhaust is will be difficult too.

 

is there any under the dash?

 

There is some up on the firewall but not much.

 

I'm here in California and it probably only got down to mid 50's at night and I kept the car in the garage and I didn't start working on it till about noon that day and a hammer and chissel works just fine. It'll take it out in big strips. Dry Ice just makes it easier. You could just try it w/o the ice first then if that takes too long for you then go grab some for the rest. Its really not too hard at all you'll be surprised how easy it is.

 

I was going to waight untill spring to start striping it but I gess I will have to take the dash out here in winter so I can get that stuff off easier.

 

No need to remove the dash, there is only a few square inches above the second bend up from the floor. You can get 99% without touching the dash.

 

It was 35 degress out to day. I went out side and started hiting it with a hammer and you were right the stuff just comes right off in chunks . I will be taking the dash out this spring and I am painting every thing white If its only that much I will get it when I pull the dash off in the spring time.

 

does any body know how much all the sound deadoning in the car waighs?

 

i couldnt find dry ice in my area so i mixd up a gluey paste like liquid out of some paint stripper meth a turps and a bit of backing flour and fue other things lol brushed it on left it on over night went back the next day and wiped it away it was ******* horrible lol

 

whats the best way to get the peace of metal that holds the rear speakers in place around each rear strut tower off? it looks like I would need to cut and chizle it off.

 

I just ground the spot welds and twisted it back and forth with pliers. Another way is to just cut it off at the level of the top of the tower and smooth out the edge.

 

i like that hatch, nice work. how hard would it be to install one of those(if you still made them)? still get to use the hatch hydraulics?

 

It's too flimsy to have the stock hydraulics. You can hold it up with one finger. Most guys just set them up so you can remove it with dzus fasteners and put it out of the way.

Still make them, if fact one is MIA in shipping as we type. Greyhound has it somewhere between St Pete, Fl and Charlotte, NC.

 

Do they come with the hinges and latches at the bottom so thay can bolt right up. whats a dzus fastener?

 

Not really a street part at all. I've added hinges for guys drifting but never any latch stuff. There also isn't any thickness to it for the stock seal to work good. You can pull it down to the seal but then it looks a little low on the car.

A dzus fastener is a spring loaded, quarter turn "pin" to hold stuff on tight but makes it very easy to remove in seconds. Google it, there a bunch of styles, some need tools like a wide curved screwdriver, others have tabs like a wing nut.

 

I removed 21#s of sound deadening.

As for the hatch, if you replace the hatch glass with lexan using the stock metal frame then you'll drop about 29#s. My frame weighed 18#, the lexan, rivets, straps, etc. weighed 11#s.

 

wow my car is getting really light I pulled the dash off this week and am starting to pull all the hvac **** out. its starting to sit higher and higher on the stock suspention I cant wait to see how it handles and accelerates when I build the moter for it this spring!

 

by the way how much does the car weigh in stock form? coz I would bet I have got rid of hundereds of pounds.

 

Mine is a 1990 na and it weighed 2,694# with full interior. The last time I weighed it, it was 2,277# without a driver and 1 gallon of gas. This pic is from when it weighed about 2,400# -- it was sitting very high with the stock suspension.



The dash has a lot of weight in it. Mine weighed 34# stock, and I got it down to about 10.

 

yea mine is starting to look like that I am geting some coilovers for it this spring after I get the new engine in it.Im going to go through every part of the car and and try and lose as much weight as posibule if I could get her down to 2000pounds or lower that would be perfact.