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Windisch Samba Member
Joined: October 30, 2014 Posts: 401 Location: Sacramento, CA 95822
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Posted: Thu Feb 15, 2024 3:19 pm Post subject: Anyone have a template/pattern for making a 914 engine firewall |
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Need to acquire and install a sound/heat pad on my forward engine compartment firewall, since it doesn't presently have one. I am aware of the possibility of finding a used one on eBay and also of several new ones that Porsche specialist shops will sell you for several hundreds of $$$, but I can certainly make my own if I can just find someone who already has a pattern for one who can share it with us.
Surely someone out there in the 914 community has made an accurate pattern, prior to constructing their own? And yes, I could make a pattern myself, using the usually suggested cardboard/paper materials and measurements, but why go to all that trouble when the odds are that SOMEONE out there has already made one a template and can save me all that trouble?
Dynamat material is certainly another way to go on this, but frankly, I'd rather make a pad that provides some thickness. VW sells a suitable material that uses a felt-like 3/8ths inch thick felt backing material covered with an outer thin layer of alum foil (it's usually used to insulate heater pipes under the rear seat of VeeDubs, but comes in large rolls, so you can cut any size shape you wish). All you need is a suitable pattern for the 914 firewall.
Thanks. _________________ 1973 Standard Beetle, 1974 VW/Porsche 914-4, 1.8 liter
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Starbucket Samba Member
Joined: April 30, 2007 Posts: 4163 Location: WA
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Posted: Sat Feb 17, 2024 9:16 pm Post subject: Re: Anyone have a template/pattern for making a 914 engine firewall |
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Just get some stiff construction paper and make your own templet. work with 1/2 or 1/3 Pices and cut and snip then tape it all together and transfer to the final piece of material and cut it out, it's not that hard. |
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Windisch Samba Member
Joined: October 30, 2014 Posts: 401 Location: Sacramento, CA 95822
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Posted: Sun Feb 18, 2024 7:42 am Post subject: Re: Anyone have a template/pattern for making a 914 engine firewall |
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Starbucket wrote: |
Just get some stiff construction paper and make your own templet. work with 1/2 or 1/3 Pices and cut and snip then tape it all together and transfer to the final piece of material and cut it out, it's not that hard. |
Thanks for the encouragement, Starbucket. Good tip about making three individual sections, then taping them together (never thought of that...duh!). Given the tight space & small clearances at the corners of the engine bay particularly, it would logically seem so much easier to make the 3-piece do-up than struggle with a single (unsegmented) pattern. Another example of 'two minds better than one' when it comes to problem solving! Cheers! _________________ 1973 Standard Beetle, 1974 VW/Porsche 914-4, 1.8 liter
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