Back to the firewall covering install. It is the Airtex "Flint" foam backed carpeting.
Wife Karen helped me with the firewall install, We first rough cut the carpeting material per an outline or pattern that Lorraine Morris had traced right onto the carpet material. Then made a cadboard pattern from it, that we held in place on the inside while we marked all of our exact hole locations from the outside. Then used that cardboard pattern to finalize the carpet cutting. We left the lower edge long and final trimmed down to the rudder bar shields after the main piece was glued in.
The hard part was holding the carpet to the firewall in the vertical to start gluing it in, not enough hands! So we used some 1/4" bolts with large fender washers through several of the holes, to hold the carpet in place, then we started at the top and glued it in sections. We're having a good time figuring things out as we go, I've never done any of this so each part of this resto is a new challenge. If it's not perfect in spots, at least I did it myself, which is really the goal of this entire project.
So with the firewall carpet now in place, we can continue the assembly under the panel and running cables through the firewall, and ti install the pedal assy install, etc!
- Firewall carpet in place
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