Steve Brookes
Moderator
A while ago I did a temporary fix on the driver's footwell when I found the wet, rotten soundproofing under the carpet by filling it with some light weight foam and putting a board on top. This weekend I finally got round to doing a proper job by making some wooden floorboards like those found in the cup cars.
First job was to get the seats out, remove the carpet and everything else in the foot wells. I could then get to work on making a template from cardboard before breaking out the jigsaw on some 6 mm plywood. That was followed by a good coating of yatch varnish:
Here's a piece of the old soundproofing next to one of the new floorboards. The sound proofing pieces weighed 3.5 Kg and the replacement board just 2 Kg:
While the boards would be screwed onto the raised cross members in the footwell, they needed to have a support in the deep part. So I came up with a door stop, some repair washers as spacers and they would be bolted to the boards using one of those two piece bolts that are used to join kitchen units together:
Passenger floor board fitted:
Driver's side:
Here's my new co-driver checking out one of the seats while it was out of the car [
]
First job was to get the seats out, remove the carpet and everything else in the foot wells. I could then get to work on making a template from cardboard before breaking out the jigsaw on some 6 mm plywood. That was followed by a good coating of yatch varnish:
Here's a piece of the old soundproofing next to one of the new floorboards. The sound proofing pieces weighed 3.5 Kg and the replacement board just 2 Kg:
While the boards would be screwed onto the raised cross members in the footwell, they needed to have a support in the deep part. So I came up with a door stop, some repair washers as spacers and they would be bolted to the boards using one of those two piece bolts that are used to join kitchen units together:
Passenger floor board fitted:
Driver's side:
Here's my new co-driver checking out one of the seats while it was out of the car [
]
