New carpet, soundproofing, and dynamat - any tips?

[Henrik]

For the floors and that, whats the best method for sectioning the peices? seperate for the floor, center console, etc?

First I cut out a template using regular paper (you can see the brown roll in the first picture) and used it to outline the shape on the FatMat with a marker, then I cut the FatMat. Also make sure the surfaces are completely clean.

It's simply a matter of getting creative with the shapes. Don't make them too large. You can always fill in with smaller patches if needed. The area behind radio was a little tricky to get to and to get all the wires out of the way and to make sure the fiberglass was clean. The round shapes of the rear wheel wells also took a little time but again, you have to get creative with slitting the material so it fits right.

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[Lwanmtr]

Cool..yeah, I got paper still from my fascia painting.

What about material to put between the carpet and fatmat? Not sure where to get that.

[Henrik]

Cool..yeah, I got paper still from my fascia painting.

What about material to put between the carpet and fatmat? Not sure where to get that.

I didn't add any padding on the floor surfaces, other than what was attached to the bottom of the carpeting already. If you did it would make the fore-aft seat adjustments very difficult, for example. I did, however, add a ton of padding behind the vertical board of the parcel shelf and the firewall, as well as to the horizontal part of the parcel shelf. I had a bunch of sound-proofing butyl material from a different project that was able to use.

[Lwanmtr]

The stuff that was on my carpets was seriously past it and all crumbly and nasty, so I scraped it off.

[Morpheus]

Henrik, did you notice a discernible road noise/sound difference inside the car after the Fatmat? I'm just trying to decide if the extra $$ and weight is worth it.

[Lwanmtr]

In the process of putting it all in using the 70mil fatmat. The total package weight is only 25lbs so it's less than a passenger and the cost was good.
Taking forever and my back is letting me know that I been doing things it wasnt made for...lol

Still debating on harvey's pads or finding something else...sadly a few of the insulation pads are NLA from DMC.

Any points to a resource would be great.

[Lwanmtr]

So I was looking around for padding to glue to the floor carpets ( to replace the icky stuff I scraped off)...and ran across this...

http://www.jcwhitney.com/bonded-logi...?filterid=u0j1

Wondering if that would make a good replacement for the pad that were along the rear area? seems similar, other than the different outer material.

[Lwanmtr]

We just replaced some carpet in a rental house and wondered if this stuff would work for padding under the carpet? Not worried about its sound deadening quality since I put fatmat all over anyway.

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[David T]

Just something to consider when selecting padding, how flammable is it? In a confined space like an automobile cabin it is something to think about.

[Lwanmtr]

Its the same color as the stuff I scraped off the carpets...and I dont plan on using it on the firewall...hehe. Cant imagine its any more flammable than the carpets.

Just wondered if anyone thinks it would be decent to use.