I lost 26 pounds - ask me how!
 

So I finally had a spare hour or two to kill and I went ahead and tore out the sound pad that lives under the rear deck and seats in my 1978. I'd removed the back rests many years ago, and I'd been wanting to do the pad, and well here I am.

I removed the two rubber pads and most but not all of the fluffy matting underneath it. I just put the old carpet and vinyl covered press board right back afterwards, and I put the butt pads back too since they really are featherweight and there's no carpetting to cover the metal there. Eventually I will buy/make a RS carpet set, but in the meantine the car looks just as it did before the "upgrage".

I just weighed the discarded materials on a very accurate laboratory scale. 11.8 kilograms, which calculates out the 25.96 pounds for you yanks. Mind you the materials was wet, and that's because I (apparantly) have leaks in my rear window seal. I wasn't surprised to see these little pools of water under the butt pads, I always suspected they were there. That's another benefit of this little job in that I got to dry that area out. Happy to note the galvanized steel was unscathed.

Sound wise - yep, the rubber and fluffy stuff did a great job of keeping the motor sounds out of the cabin. Nobody will think the engine is in the front of my car from now on. Mind you I've got the webers and the Dansk sport muffler which is a pretty loud combination. I like the noise. It fairly reverberates through the cabin now.

So all in all I've turned another corner towards making my car completely unsellable to anyone but a true car nut. A luxury car this ain't.

ps - I removed my tape deck, antenna, and door speakers last month too. I couldn't hear the thing anyway. I covered over the hole in the dash with a plastic "blank" from a base model Honda. Looks pretty clean.


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I also removed the rear vynil covered pressboard and just glued lightweight felt right to the metal. Yeah...It's loud!

Shawn, and you want megaphones.... your nuts

Nuts is rather harsh dont you think? I mean those are lighter than mufflers right? Makes perfect sense...

:), just don't let your kids stand behind the car when you rev it up with the M-phones on it, they might fall over when their hammer starts banging wildly on their anvil or stirrup!!!

Last Thursday afternoon as I was doing some last minute track prep, I moved my camera mount. In the process, I dropped on of the nuts (my nuts, not yours). My rear carpets were kind of a mess after installing the trans cooler and other stuff. In a fit of pique, I ripped - violently so - all of the carpet and sound pad out, and threw it all away. I didn't bother to weigh it, but that stuff is heavy!

Now the back 'seat' of my car is the original yellow. I think I'm just going to rattle-can it flat black for now.

Re: I lost 26 pounds - ask me how!
 

Good job:D

Are you driving with hearing protection Shawn ??

Sustained sound that can sterilize frogs at 1000 yards tends to do permanent damage to yer earz... ;)

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