The inside of the RS is essentially stripped of all the sound dampening material that comes from the factory. There is some that is on the transmission tunnel, but I figured it would be best to leave it there to keep some of the heat off the seats, etc. The next step will probably be to sand down the insides and really get all of the remaining stuff off. This may have to come at another time though since I’d rather see the car ready for the cage install before anything else. To get the car cage-ready, I need to install the replacement driver’s side window mechanism so that the window will roll up on its own (without me coaxing it into the tracks), also there are plans to relocate the power window switches onto a custom toggle panel underneath the AC controls.

Dry Ice doing its thing again

Patch of sound dampening that was on the rear dash between where the speakers would be mounted. This stuff was more plastic-like than the rest of the car. It cracked really easily once exposed to the dry ice. Fun stuff. You can see the bushes behind the car through that hole because my trunk was open a bit.

I thought the rear wheel wells were going to be a pain because there is no way to hold dry ice onto them. However, i found that if i worked my way down with the screwdriver and a mallet that the thing came off almost in one piece.

The end result wasn’t as tidy as the frozen patches, but its no big deal.

Same thing on the other side.

A bag full of worthless sound material.

So the total for doing just about all of the inside cabin was 8.55 lbs of sound material removed. I thought it would be more (based on how long it took me to get all of it out) but any weight out is good news. Gotta have nice clean metal to weld to anyway.