Yeah, simple process right??? Looking through a catalog while wasting a little time at lunch, I noticed they sell a piece that goes between the back seat and the trunk structure. It's cheap enough but shipping is a killer. Essentially, it's a fiberboard piece with some jute backing. Since I'm not a stickler for things like that, I went to Menard's and bought a sheet of 1/8 hardboard for $7.95 and made one. Took a little over an hour since there's a lot of trial and error fitting. I used some leftover jute padding from my package tray.

I also put in the windlace for the doors and headliner, the 1/4 trim panels and the 1/4 armrests. Looks like it's time to get that back seat cleaned up and in after bolting in the seatbelts. Then it's back to the front floor insulation, drop the carpet in, and finally mount the front seats which was the one thing I had planned to do over the winter. Snowball effect hit pretty good again this year.












cleaned one on left:

I did a load of seatbelts in the wash machine... worked really well.

Looks good! The addition of the matting and sealing off the trunk will really cut down on exhaust "drone" in the cabin.

I also put in a new mesh package panel from Auto City Classics and hid the speakers under it.

The seats cleaned up nice. They look dry, but I will take care of that once I get some black vinyl tape on that cracked seam.

Did you cover the package tray area with sound deadner? That really helps the noise also covering the rear seat panel and then cutting out the openings so it looks correct from insid the trunk.

I didn't. Maybe when I take it all apart again when it's paint time in however many years. I did use Jute under the package panel and behind the separator panel in spots. We'll see what kind of noise there is. Wasn't bad before without any separator tray at all, now there's something and I actually screwed the bottom of the upper rear seat down too.

Are you doing the doors where the dirt / moisture shield would go?

Trick we use on webbing is Simple Green or if you are really lazy drop it off at the Dry Cleaner and they clean it up really nice. FAA does frown on the Dry Cleaners doing things because they have no control over process.

I won't be doing door panel insulation either at this point. I'm no where near being done and just didn't plan for it in the budget. I didn't even plan on swapping interior but I couldn't pass it up. I only had planned on new front seats which was partly covered by reselling my old ones. Even the interior I am putting in probably won't be the final finished product, but that's until after paint which is a few years off. I just wanted something that looked better to me than what I had and didn't look so mis-matched. I'm on the 20 year plan and only halfway there.