This weekend I concentrated on sealing up small openings between aluminum panels and the chassis, bracing corners around the inspection openings at the tops of the foot boxes and insulating around the fire-wall area.
Some brief photo descriptions:
1) A partial sheet of 1" foil backed foam insulation board with a bunch of panel shapes laid out. I cut these out on a band saw. Lots of triangles on this car - I cut a lot more than seen here.
2) Some of the insulating panels have been glued into place here. In the upper most triangle space is the gas pedal shaft support that needed a seal against hot air blowing in. I made the seal out of two layers of foil backed fiberglass insulation cloth. A foam panel was glued over the top of that.
3,4) The upper portions of the foot boxes were insulated on the inside. I have aluminum corner braces flush riveted into the corners here and the heater hose end fitting screwed in place.
5) The upper portion of the fire wall and the front wall of the right foot well received insulation on the insides. The "no glue" labels are there since these insulating panels may still need to come out for component installations like windshield wipers, a dash support, etc.
6) The top of the right foot box. Measuring for and installing the insulation panels in here wasn't easy. There are more that are hidden from the camera so you can imagine what fun they were.
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