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Carpeting Austin Healey 3000 1961 BT7

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fishyboy

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Hi all,
I am about to start carpeting by BT7. I have Rick Cryslers excellent notes and Andrea Villa's great photo's but still have a couple of questions.
I intend to use Dynomat with jute overlay. Is the jute underlay only applied to the flat floor areas? More specifically is the jute excluded from the rear/jump seat area and also along the inner sills? In these area I assume the carpet is glued directly to the Dynomat.
Thanks
Phil
 
fishyboy said:
Hi all,
I am about to start carpeting by BT7. I have Rick Cryslers excellent notes and Andrea Villa's great photo's but still have a couple of questions.
I intend to use Dynomat with jute overlay. Is the jute underlay only applied to the flat floor areas? More specifically is the jute excluded from the rear/jump seat area and also along the inner sills? In these area I assume the carpet is glued directly to the Dynomat.
Thanks
Phil
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Originally I think the jute was only in the footwells and up to the front end of the seat rails . When I did my 67 . I put Dynomat in all the footwells on the floor up to the seat rails and covering the transmission tunnel . I then put jute everywhere except where the rear seat pans are . It all depends how correct you want the car to be versus how much heat/noise you want to keep out of the car . :eagerness::encouragement:
 
Do it all except leave the jute out, if it gets wet it stays wet and stinks.--:sorry:
 
That's not "stink", it's ​Eau de Oulde British Car!---Smell like it do!!:glee:
 
Why are you using jute? If it's for originality, then OK (but I wonder what the concours judges say about dynamat). If you're not too worried about originality, I would use some sort of insulating material on top of the dynamat instead of jute. Dynamat does have some insulating properties, but it's primarily a sound deadener.

Your feet will thank you.
 
Keith
I am not going for concourse, just happen to have some spare jute. What would you suggest as an alternative insulating material to jute?
Phil
 
fishyboy said:
Keith
I am not going for concourse, just happen to have some spare jute. What would you suggest as an alternative insulating material to jute?
Phil
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Phil,
I used dynaliner, but I'm not sure I would use it again. It works fine, but I think there are some cheaper alternatives that also work well. Hopefully, others will chime in on this with some suggestions.

Given the famous heat problems in the Healey cockpit, I coated the entire foot compartment, firewall, and transmission tunnel with both Dynamat and Dynaliner. Even with that, my feet get hot on hot days.

Keith
 
Or in Europe its "Eau de Authentique---Don't matter where you at it still stink when wet!!!--:friendly_wink:
 
Keoke said:
Or in Europe its "Eau de Authentique---Don't matter where you at it still stink when wet!!!--:friendly_wink:
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Easy fix .......don't get it wet
 
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