noise without floorboard tar?
 

first off, no matter how rust free you think your car is, you'll probably be surprised after pulling out the tar mats. I was debating on whether to go this far in the resto or not, glad I did. lots of moisture must leak in where the edges of the tar pad curl up a little with age. plenty of rust along all the edges and near the seat mount points, etc. so now I will sandblast the floor clean and coat with zero-rust. my question is, how much more interior noise am I going to get if I don't put new tar pads back in? I'd rather leave them out and only stick with the zero-rust. I'll have pictures of the whole process when I am done.

this is where I started with my resto basically. finding how bad the interior was. And I found a nice amount in the driver side....

Guess I'll be getting some new sheet metal.

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Mike Brancato
AIM: funnyguy00
ICQ: 9348858

'76 914 2.0 rust machine

I just bought a '76 2.0 that does not appear to have any of the original sound-deadening material and it certainly does not have the floorboard tar, as I discovered when I checked underneath the carpet for rust. The road noise in my car is not bad at all, of course I can't compare it to a car with the tar in it, but I don't think that my car without the tar is much worse (or any worse) than my daily driver (a 1988 Accord).