How Much Dry Ice Is Needed?

[femno]

Hey guys,

Thought this would be the best place to ask since most of you have already done it.

Were dry-icing our sil80 tomorrow morning but we have to drive 45mins to go get it since the closest shop is sold out.

So id love to know how many kg's to buy as we have no idea at all?

We need enough to remove every single piece of deadening on the floorpan and boot etc.

Thanks!

Mat.

[Nismo_Boy]

we bought about 3kg to do an R32, but we started at dusk and just moved the dry ice around as the deadening came up...

[fatz]

just did it with 5 kg for 42 bux

but next time i would go 13 kg for 100 bux and farken make it easier

and watch the burns i have ten on my body ( the arse hurts the most!.. cause i scrached it thinking it was a mosquito bite)

doing it in thongs is not recomended... lol

[zebra]

where do you guys get dry-ice?

I keep hearing that BOC gas and gear shops have it

[R31Nismoid]

Now who did it recently,... someone on the forum did - said 5KG's would be the amount to use...

Actually - i know - Matt, it was Scott/Letmedrive

Was a R32 GTR, drop him a PM maybe and ask.

[Gts-t]

hey matt,

i used about 5kg doing mine, as josh said just keep moving it around as it cracks up

will take about 5-10 mins to start cracking up in the area you have put the ice

then u can start

[BOZ22N]

I took our std esky and filled it up, and that done my R33 GTSt ok.

[SRS13]

I used 7kg and had not much left over when I did it myself. When we did a mates car there were 3 of us and he bought 7kg and had a heap left over!

You will need from 4-7kg. At roughly $6kg get more then less.

The deadener starts to crack after 1 minute when the dry ice is applied. Leave it on there for a minute or two and then move it around. The hard part is moving it around. Start at the highest point of the car (back seat) and then move it around then down to the footwells. For the wheel arches and transmission tunnel, you will need to put it in a bag and try and get it to sit on there.

The sound deadener is the easy part, the seam silicone is the hard stuff and the dry ice wont remove that - chisel, hammer, wire brush, heat gun, turps and plenty of swearing to get that shit off!!!!

Have fun!

Edited January 8, 2010 by SRS13

[Marlin]

I used 6kg. Two cubed 2kg bags, and one block. I used the block for the more vertical panels, just rested it against it and let it do the work. I think it made it easier than trying to hold up the cubes somehow on vertical surfaces.

Yeah, I'm a fawkin thinker huh

[Marlin]

And for what it's worth I didn't use gloves and wore thongs, just moved it around with my hands mostly and when moving to a different area just scooped it up with a dustpan and brush. I didn't suffer any burns. Just don't grab it or hold onto it and you'll be fine.

I recommend having some empty plastic drink bottles available to have some fun with afterwards. Yes, I'm a juvi.

Edited January 9, 2010 by Marlin

[Let Me Drive]

i used one large eski full and i think if i did it again i would use two just to make the whole process easy-er , and like said above dont leave it to long just untill it starts to pop and start removing the large chunks and get the ice to do most of the work !!!!!!

then its just scrapping and chipping all the little stuff off.

[femno]

Thanks alot guys for the insight, we got about 6kg this morning but it wasnt quite enough.

We finished the entire floorpan and boot area, it was easy; the only bits we missed were the rear inner guards! They have deadener all the way round on both sides!

We left them till last but by that time we had stuff all ice left and there was more deadener than ice in the messy mix we finished up with.

Next weekend we will get another kg and finish off the rear guards.

We used some solvent gloves I had lying around and a couple of chisels, so no burns, apart from competitions of who could hold a nugget on their arm the longest!

Thanks again guys for all your help.

[Trackwork]

I used about 6kg last time to do an R32 GTR, worked well and was only just enough to finish it. But I didnt do inside the rear wheela rch.

[Travis Trayhern]

this prob been covered but did you weigh up the deadner removed? just wondering how much you got out of it.