Advice on sound damping materials

[mark99]

A couple questions:

Opinions on the material along top of fenders in engine compartment
During a repaint, should I remove it and leave it off?
What can it be replaced with if I wanted to replace it?

I can’t seem to find the correct category on the online parts book ordering to find the foam insulation on the firewall engine compartment, any hints?

Thanks

 

[Arde]

There is some material being used by Don on a couple of restorations in progress at his shop. I think he even showed me the raw material.

If the repaint includes the engine bay you want to remove it and put a new one. I think the body color paint was not applied under it at the factory, just white primer, but I may be wrong. For a body respray I would not remove it.

I am not touching mine, who knows what skeletons may come out of that closet...

Others can chime in and describe skeletons they found.

 

[rsporsche]

for the sound insulation at the firewall - look at section 51 - body trim on penskeparts.com - see attached pix

 

[Stevehose]

If you want the top fender and other insualtion contact Christoph Bier in Germany. He sells occasionally on eBay as Chrissi7 but has a catalogue of NLA stuff available from repro insulation, trunk pieces, etc. His email address is [email protected] and he will send you the catalogues (he speaks English).

He is also a manager of the German e9 club www.bmw-coupeclub.de and also included a few items from them along with the part.

I have bought from him.

 

[mark99]

materials

Thanks for the tip on the German guy! I just sent him an email

 

[HB Chris]

Still available from BMW, you just need to cut it to the proper shapes. OCCoupe has the part number, it was used up through e28 I believe.

 

[mark99]

Hi Thanks, I will see what I can find from OCCoupe, the parts books online say NLA, but maybe that is pre-shaped

 

[HB Chris]

Yep, it now comes in bulk.