Painting the interior of a car

[driftingeric2k4]

And I dont mean trim parts.

I am considering removing the carpeting in my Mustang entirely and removing the hard sound deadening tar from the bottom of the floor, sanding it down to the bare metal and painting the interior floor black.

I'd like to do this before winter comes around. I had the carpet out for a week due to a wet carpet and thought it looked badazz, except the floor of the car is brown (deadening) and like olive green for the paint. I think if it were painted black it would look good though. I removed all the soft deadening from the carpet and shaved off like 8-10 pounds. The carpet itself weighs 20 some pounds, I forgot cause it was like 2 months ago I did this.


Has anyone done this? What type of prep and paint should I use? Comments?

[Intercooled T]

good luck. ford paints every square inch of their cars...I really don't think its worth the hassle...just my two cents

[driftingeric2k4]

good luck. ford paints every square inch of their cars...I really don't think its worth the hassle...just my two cents

This would just be the floor to eliminate the need for the carpetting, which is kind of beat right now. If I dont need to sand the floor, I might not bother doing that in lieu of just roughing it up a bit for adhesion.

Anyone know what paint would work best? I'm thinking just some Krylon spray paint would probably do it. That stuff is 3$ a can so if I needed to respray the foot wells from wear and tear then that would be no biggy.

[yellow2000S/R]

This would just be the floor to eliminate the need for the carpetting, which is kind of beat right now. If I dont need to sand the floor, I might not bother doing that in lieu of just roughing it up a bit for adhesion.

Anyone know what paint would work best? I'm thinking just some Krylon spray paint would probably do it. That stuff is 3$ a can so if I needed to respray the foot wells from wear and tear then that would be no biggy.

To get the rubbery "sound deadening" ford puts down off, you need to buy a little bit of dry ice and just spread a little on the stuff and it will freeze it and then scrape it off. Its easier to do it with dry ice then it is to just have it there and try to scrape it off with it all sticky.

[driftingeric2k4]

To get the rubbery "sound deadening" ford puts down off, you need to buy a little bit of dry ice and just spread a little on the stuff and it will freeze it and then scrape it off. Its easier to do it with dry ice then it is to just have it there and try to scrape it off with it all sticky.

Ah cool tip, I'll try that. I wasn't looking forward to chiseling all morning tomorrow.