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Originally Posted by sglemans
Did the 71 T37 have less under carpet insulation than the lemans? Mine is pretty noisy on the highway and I noticed it just has a rug with nothing underneath, just bare floors
Also what about under-dash insulation? More in the Lemans?
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'70 233's had the paper covered tar mat type floor insulation. I parted a '70 Tempest 2 door Coupe, was a non AC vinyl flooring car & I carefully removed the front vinyl flooring. thought it odd it at the time, that it had the floor insulation, then as the years rolled on I checked several more 70's
'71 T-37 2 doors typically had no asphalt floor insulation from what I've examined. There is a sheet in the 71 Assembly Manual noting the deletion. Over the years i have ran across a few misbuilds with partial floor insulation in the very front. The '71 235 & 237 series LeMans floor pans definitely had the multiple piece floor insulation, same as '71 GTO. Once, you get to '72 models with the addition of the Lux LeMans 2 doors, they had an extra insulation panel.
Firewall pads... On my HO T-37 Coupe, it has its original formed vinyl coated firewall insulation pad. The Coupe also has weight adding factory AC
Going back decades, i've never disassembled a factory AC equipped '71 T-37 or GT-37 that didn't have that same formed firewall insulation pad. Will check my HO GT-37 on whether it has a firewall pad. I removed its dash many years ago to have remolded & am slowly getting back on it as a project. The GT-37 other than the drivetrain, is basically a strippo, heater vinyl flooring car.