Had a go at making an original looking firewall mat for the cooper s

Please do tell more. I'd like to know the how and what.

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1965 Smooth roof Van
1969 Cooper S MK2
1970 Mini K

I managed to find the jute underlay and vinyl from a supplier in Australia.
The vinyl is used as a tornou cover on utes as I understand it.
I had the original firewall insulation mat from the car but it was in bad shape and not complete.
If you do a search on the forum under the title you will find a lot of information regards the two types of mats used and the grains of the vinyl and the colour which is almost a charcoal colour.
Forum members sent me some photo's of the complete firewall mat which helped to complete the correct shape.
I made a cardboard patten first and fitted it to find the correct locations of the cuts and then took the measurements from my old mat and came up with a nicely fitting end result.
You will need to make your judgment on colour and patten but when I put old with new side by side I'm very happy.

that's beautiful, well done!

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Sets off a very neat engine bay.

Thanks Simon K and Bill B.

Iansmini67. I hope some of the information was of help.

@Firefirey, do you mind sharing the supplier details? Looks awesome. Thanks

Yes, Very helpful and really does look amazing. I'm with fffffred, I'd ben keen to know the suppliers please.

Looks good. I had also been told a while back that the vinyl was the same as Ute cover.

The cut for the windscreen bottle, is that a long vertical slit almost to the bottom then a small horizontal slit? Does it fit around and over the bracket?


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Hi Phil

My understanding is that the washer bottle bracket was screwed to the firewall and the insulation mat had the long cut - top to almost bottom with a small t - cut at the bottom which allowed the insulation mat to fit around the bracket and the washer bottle which makes a neat finish to the fitment of the insulation mat

Thanks. Might consider doing that. Mine has the bracket screwed on top of mat, so I always have to unscrew/screw bracket to remove/fit mat.


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