I just did some welding in the back of my 86 Si and removed some of the
black stuff with a wire wheel on my drill. It came off pretty easily.
Just vacuum up the mess after it's done and you'll need to paint where
the black stuff was removed from.
~Benaiah
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Current cars:
Blue '87 CRX HF w/ '89 Integra engine
Red '85 CRX HF ('87 Si engine, not running yet)
Red '88 CRX HF
Blue '85 CRX HF ('86 CRX DX engine) **FOR SALE**
White '86 Si w/ JDM Engine
Previous cars:
White '86 CRX DX Automatic (Sold)
Red '86 CRX DX (Totally stripped, taken to the scrap yard)
Gold '85 Accord LX-i (Sold)
Red '89 Integra LS (Just for parts, Stripped it)
Silver '87 CRX Si (Totaled, Completly stripped)
White '91 CRX DX (Totaled, Completly stripped)
On Sun, 5 Jan 2003 23:41:43 -0500 "Lee & Tracy Grimes"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> This is something that we have to do with the racecars and is a real
> pain in
> the butt. There are several ways of doing it. Basically it is a
> felt or
> fibre material soaked in resin and tar that is applied hot and self
> sticks
> to the metal when it cools, there really does not appear to be a
> seperate
> adhesive below.
>
> You can use a heat gun and get it gooey again and scrape with a
> putty knife
> but you will get a lung full of some nasty smelling, smoky stuff
> that can't
> be healthy. Been there, inhaled that. Several people suggest that
> you let
> it get super cold and get brittle and chip off again with a putty
> knife or
> screw driver or bash it with hammer. Depending on where you are in
> the
> country and how cold your winter is, I have heard letting the car
> sit
> outside over night can work. I have done all of mine mine in the
> summer so
> I'd go to the local welding supply store and buy blocks of dry ice
> and let
> the stuff freeze the tar to make it brittle for chipping. Not as
> easy as it
> might sound but it does work. I have not found a chemical solvent
> yet that
> does a decent job however paint thinner or lots of brake cleaner
> will soften
> the small remaining smudges enought to be wiped away after the
> majority of
> the stuff has been removed by other means.
>
> Any way you do it, it is not easy work and takes many hours of elbow
> grease.
> Very slow going but you will get there. After doing four or five
> cars like
> this, I don't know any better methods. When done, the material is
> gone but
> you have lots of little scrapes in the paint below from the metal
> tools so
> you will need to repaint the floorboard. I have usually found that
> all that
> material is worth only about 6 lbs. or so of weight savings. I have
> never
> stripped the underside of the car but am told that under coating is
> a softer
> material and a very high pressure washer with hot water or steam
> strips it
> best.
>
> If anyone has any easier or cleaner way, I'd sure like to hear it.
> It is
> probably the most unpleasant parts of stripping a car.
>
> Lee
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "danny" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Sunday, January 05, 2003 8:11 PM
> Subject: CRX: Removing black rubber mat?
>
>
> > Does anyone have any clue on how to take out the black rubber
> matting
> > underneath the carpet. Its an 89 si, and im trying to strip the
> whole
> > interior down to the metal, but that stuff seems like its cemented
> to the
> > frame. Any tips, thanx, danny.
> >
>
>
>
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