A lot of progress over the past weeks. Here’s the result of U-POL’s Raptor bed liner sprayed down. Wire brushed and patched a few pinholes, Applied anti corrosion primer by brush and sprayed on the protective coating. Worked better than expected. It is all about the preparation!
Sound absorption is an amazing bi-product of this coating. I put in the driver’s seat and hit a car show last weekend. Doesn’t block much heat from the engine however. I used three bottles so only 5lbs of product best guess. I didn’t want to lay down 40+ lbs of dynamat and/or mass backed carpet.
To help with heat I wrapped the tunnel as I had this material already. A hazard of impulse purchases from WCCC! 
The foil side is down and I used some contact cement to help it contour to the floor. Should help with sound absorption too. I am using the normal carpet option from Auto Custom Carpets. Don’t want to add extra weight if not needed.
The seatbelt hardware and console installation went well. I took almost a whole day installing the console being as light handed as possible and I had forgotton to detail clean the PRNDL back last winter. Clock and radio don’t work so I will leave those out for this season.
I will be trimming the carpet around the door sill plates and installing the rear panels and package tray next. The seat covers finally shipped and I expect them after the July 4th holiday.
Man, that is turning out really, really sweet. Something to use as a guide for what’s possible!
The saddle carpet has me thinking. Previous owner had black ACC installed with my saddle interior.
Is that ACC Saddle, or Medium Saddle?
R.B.
Thank you! The Raptor kit comes with it’s own spray gun so that helps a lot. A custom painter friend of mine suggested it.
I mulled over carpet color for months. Much to my surprise the carpet I took out was originally black. It faded so much that it was a light brown/saddle color. Imagine the color of a black shirt that was heavily bleached in the laundry. To be clear the carpet I ordered is called “Dark Brown - OEM Style” from Auto Custom Carpets via WCCC. None of the samples (from three different sources) I looked at named “Saddle”, “Dark Saddle” etc… looked right to me.
I drove the car for two days with only the black floor coating. It confirmed my worry that it would be too dark. Glad I decided to use dark brown. My floor mats are black so the contrast will be sweet.
Wow, now I’m really glad I asked…
Very sanitary and complete work.
Nice work, Its much like line x for a truck bed. I like it! Your right it will not block the heat all that well and you will need that insulation down for that. It should help with panel vibrations however. I think thats the biggest mistake people make with the dynamat is covering every surface with it which adds weight. You really only need to apply it in areas that resonate. You could still do that over your liner in problem areas, just rap on it with a dead blow mallet or your hand and see what makes noise then apply a section of dynamatt to that area to deaden the noise.
John your project is looking very nice. I like the brown more than the black carpet, good choice.
Steven
No to be a Debbie downer… but I thought it was bad to use bed liner in the interior of a car because of outgassing of the material is toxic. Have things changed?
John-
I guess times have changed. No warnings about your concern. I am sure there is some funky products out there though. This UPOL brand bed liner is a two part epoxy and I wore a respirator while spraying it down. Instructions say 5-7 days to fully harden up. After that I wouldn’t be worried about out-gassing. I waited that long before proceeding with padding etc… There is another competing product that is water based called BullyLiner. I didn’t use it so don’t know how it works but less safety equipment is needed during application.
Ok maybe they have changed…The bed liners that I looked at in the past were polyurethane based. It wasn’t the spray in of it was bad, it was the Later heating up from exhaust and Sun heated interior that would make the Bed liner out gas into an enclosed space.
What I used is polyurethane so you may have a point. I’ll have the “New car” smell for a bunch of reasons then. The Raptor, contact cement, new carpet/headliner and new seat foam and vinyl.
I spent decades breathing new car smell, aromatics from chem labs, plus my model building hobby painting and cars. I’ve long suspected those, along with the preservatives in the 70+ tons of Oreros I ate up to age 30, led to my youthful complexion today at 67.
To be serious, I think the general rule of outgassing/carrier evaporation is proportional to odor decrease is still useful. I use it sometimes when waiting for a primer to be ready for a dissimilar-vehicle paint. I do miss the way plastics and paint formerly smelled in new cars before the evaporative emissions tests knocked them down, though.
It’s been almost 20 years since I got my truck liner sprayed in but he was worried about the headers cooking off the liner in that area. So I dynamated the inside of the 68 Catalina instead.
I’m a little ahead of you with putting the interior in my x-code (its not as ice as yours) I’m trying to limit the amount of spray glue and Am trying these thick rubber mats that have been toating around for years. Your carpet is nice…My carpet i bought in the 99’s and never opened the box…is a two piece but length wise…what a pain in the ass… I’m looking at u-tube videos on how to carpet seam… i have to fix from the back of the console to the back seat…
Seamed front to back? Yup that sounds like a PITA. Use the seat belt bolts to hold each side in place might help.