... arms very tired ...

After a lot of scraping the roof was able to remove all old insulation/padding. My best friend was a sharped putty knife I sacrificed for this task. Odd thing was as I was taking off the old insulation I saw really nice unrusted roof:
http://i328.photobucket.com/albums/l...adliner028.jpg

But by the time I had taken off the entire amount of insulation the entire roof had flash-rusted:
http://i328.photobucket.com/albums/l...adliner030.jpg

Must have been some reaction of the glue + bare metal and the open air.

Probably the messiest job I have ever done. I can't remember a time I was dirtier and that includes grinding the paint off the trunk/floor or when mini-tubbing.

I played the racoon(had safety googles on and mask), this is what the mask looked like:
http://i328.photobucket.com/albums/l...adliner033.jpg


The padding disintegrates into almost something like thick potting soil even looks that way too:
http://i328.photobucket.com/albums/l...adliner029.jpg
http://i328.photobucket.com/albums/l...adliner034.jpg

So now with all the padding off I hit the ceiling with a wire cupped brush:
http://i328.photobucket.com/albums/l...adliner037.jpg

I was a bit concerned with the paint on the roof so I went slow and kept checking the paint on the roof, but didn't notice anything. But by the time I was done with the 2nd panel (took a couple hour break between panels) looks like my paint started to bubble on the roof:
http://i328.photobucket.com/albums/l...adliner039.jpg

Any ideas from keeping this from happening elsewhere? Just go slower? Had been feeling the panels to make sure they didn't get very hot (kept moving to another area if it did start getting hot to touch).

Happy about nice solid interior roof, not so much on the actual exterior roof paint. Kind of scratching my head on this one. Just poor panel prep? I am pretty sure whoever did the paint kind of half-assed it maybe this is another sign I need a paint-job.

Which I know is in the future after I have driven the car a bunch. I had been thinking of just getting the dings fixed for the mid-term. I just wanted to enjoy a driver quality paint job and not having to worry if someone dinged me in a parking lot, but the bubbling really looks like crap now.

It's definitely the dirtiest job I can remember doing. I just did this last year. Once you start, you may as well finish it because you only want to get this dirty one time. :)

We used KBS coatings to treat the underside of the roof.

That's a bummer about your paint. I was worried too, but kept moving without being in one area more than a second. It takes longer, but the panel turned out okay. Another suggestion is maybe throw some cold and wet rags on the roof to keep the top a little cooler.

Just a thought,
Tony Huntimer
RaceHome.com

Oh that's a good suggestion. Ya definitely at this point just want to finish the cleanup so I can then start painting and insulating the entire interior, so I can then move on to getting the electrical lines in from the Battery in the trunk.

Tony thanks for the idea :thumbsup:

Even a combo of using the Mineral Spirits (on interior side) as well as putting wet towels on the roof and going a lot slower and only doing small square like areas and then moved to another side to work on till the other area was cool again, I still got paint bubbling on the roof :(

But at least now I have the ceiling clean:
http://i328.photobucket.com/albums/l...adliner040.jpg

Nice and clean now Ed.:thumbsup:

Lots of updates.

After taking most of the interior down to bare metal and roughing up with 240 grit and cleaning up, masked off the roof:
http://i328.photobucket.com/albums/l...adliner047.jpg

Painted with Eastwood's Rust encapsulator (2 coats) followed by 2 coats of Extreme Chassis black:
http://i328.photobucket.com/albums/l...adliner060.jpg

http://i328.photobucket.com/albums/l...adliner061.jpg

Let it dry for about a week then added Second Skin Audio's Damplier Pro:
http://i328.photobucket.com/albums/l...adliner062.jpg

Followed by their Thermal Block product and taped up all the edges:
http://i328.photobucket.com/albums/l...nterior042.jpg

Finally got the interior floor clean enough to where I would feel comfortable to use Por-15 on it:
http://i328.photobucket.com/albums/l...nterior006.jpg
http://i328.photobucket.com/albums/l...nterior007.jpg

This is after roughing up the entire floor with 220 grit emery cloth. Then used Por-15's marine clean followed up by their Metal ready product:
http://i328.photobucket.com/albums/l...nterior015.jpg

Figured I couldn't do the entire floor in one sitting with both 2 coats of por-15 then seam seal and chassis black, so figured I would divide up the floor in sections and do a bit at a time.

http://i328.photobucket.com/albums/l...nterior018.jpg

Had to leave myself some place to sit on the floor to reach the back corners
http://i328.photobucket.com/albums/l...nterior022.jpg

http://i328.photobucket.com/albums/l...nterior020.jpg

Finished product:
http://i328.photobucket.com/albums/l...nterior023.jpg

Rear package tray with closeouts are painted as well and started to put down Second Skin's Damplier Pro:
http://i328.photobucket.com/albums/l...nterior035.jpg
http://i328.photobucket.com/albums/l...nterior031.jpg

Got all the way up to the firewall. Need to mock-up all my gauges and senders and figure out how everything is going through the firewall before I finish up on the firewall.

http://i328.photobucket.com/albums/l...nterior036.jpg

Still need to do the doors, rear quarter window areas and rear package tray. Planning on putting down heatwave pro as the next layer on the firewall and trans tunnel area and then Luxury liner pro. Overkill pro on the doors.

Started install on Screaming Performance's closeout cans and kickpanels

http://i328.photobucket.com/albums/l...nterior039.jpg

Great job Ed. Looking good.

Ought to be nice and quiet on the inside.