It always takes longer than expected. Pictures show before and during... final installation will take place slowly over the next week or two. I still have to clean the floor somehow and lay down the B-Quiet sound deadener. I almost missed the build sheet... it was sandwiched in-between the foil shield and tar padding under the driver's foot rest area. In one of the photos you can see the foil shield on the driver's side after I took the carpet out. In another photo, you can see the build sheet after I peeled back the foil from the tar padding.
Very cool that you found the production order sheet - I just found one on the driver's side floor under the tar paper when I redid my interior last week. What number was your Buick built that day - and what was the date it was built?
The sheet isn't in very good shape and parts of it are difficult to read. I'll do some photo-magic later to bring out the numbers a little better. Is there a cheat-sheet for decoding a 65 Sky build sheet? Yes, it's dark gray. As far as I know, all white interior cars had dark gray dash/carpet.
Thank you for taking the time to document this process. I am hoping to do mine this fall, or next spring. My car also has white interior, which should look great with the grey carpet. Where did you get the B-Quiet sound deadener? I've never previously heard of it.
I bought 6 rolls of it a couple of years ago to save on shipping. I'm going to use 2 layers of the 'extreme' on the floors and a single layer everywhere else. http://www.b-quiet.com/
Biggest improvement for me was using DynaMat on the entire interior. Heat level is way down, noise level way down, car feels and sounds much better. Well worth the time, money and effort.
How heavy is Dynomat? I've been thinking about doing the same thing on my car. I've seen lots of articles and advertisements but no one ever states what this stuff weighs. Is it anthing like the original tar mat type stuff, or is it much lighter?
I didn't actually weigh anything, but by the time you remove the original material and add new stuff, you're not really adding much... maybe 20-30 lbs if you cover everything. I've also read & seen on TV that you don't really need to cover every square inch the way that most people do... and that only 25%-50% coverage effectively does the same thing at reducing panel vibration. Dynomat also says this on their website in the FAQ. I don't think the manufacturers mind selling more product, so they don't make it abuntantly clear. Jeff ~
http://www.secondskinaudio.com/ Bill, this is a better/cheaper alternative, The damplifier is the thinner product and the Pro thicker. And they are high temp butyl rubber. Can also get in black foil. DL
I'm more concerned about the heat insulation value rather than noise. My car isn't that loud but the summers down here are brutally hot, and although my a/c works fine, if I have to sit in traffic or even let the car sit for an hour in the sun it takes forever to cool back down. I have a new headliner I'll be putting in soon and I wanted to put something extra above it, then pull the carpet and insulate the floor to keep some of the exhaust and pavement heat off the floor. At this point I really don't care what it cost, just that it's usable, so in the case of putting it on the roof I think I would need something light in weight. I don't really want to add weight to the car but if I do, it could be under the carpet.
Then you really want the damp for your roof. Most the other products on the market are asphalt based, you don't want it dropping loose after installing a new headliner. :shock:
The B-Quiet sound deadener is mostly in... just a little more to do in and around the doors. Let me tell ya, it aint as easy as I thought it would be crawling around the car laying that stuff down. :Smarty: When complete, there will be 2 layers on the floor, one layer behind the door panels, and one layer on the inside of the outer skins. Later on, I'll see what I can do behind the dash. The white rolls in the trunk is closed-cell foam rubber for the next layer.
