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We get so many posts asking how to cool the floors and FB is full of them so here's my experience from when I bought my Bronco in June of '76... on a very tight budget trying to alleviate the problem.
My wife used to move to the back seat on some of our long trips on 90+ deg heat days because she was always burning up.
Here ya go
In order- what I tried with large time gaps between trying something new...
- I tried heat mat on the firewall and floors back in the '80's.
-I put 2 layers of jute backing under my new carpet...
-I put a body lift in
-I ceramic coated the headers
-I put dynamat in
-I wrapped the headers AND exhaust to the mufflers behind the frt seats.
- When I did my suspension build in '17 I put alum sheets spaced 1/2" off the firewall and the floor. This ONE change did more than ALL the others combined... almost unbelievable difference.
Multiple readings on the console and passenger floor...temps were from 148- 149 deg F on a 100 deg day prior to installing the alum spacers after a 10 to 30 minute drive.
After putting alum sheets on the firewall from the top of the heads down and underneath the floor pans to behind the seats -- the console and floor pan temps dropped to 102 deg F on a 100 deg F day after driving around for 40 minutes... this is with the dual mufflers mounted directly under the seats.
Put all the liners and coatings and dynomat and carpet ya want on...but the best thing is to have a heat shield barrier with a small air gap.
My buddy did this to his Bronco in the mid '80's and I just didn't want to go thru the hassle of trying it...well, I could have saved myself 30 yrs of broiling to death !!!
Hope this helps someone!
My wife used to move to the back seat on some of our long trips on 90+ deg heat days because she was always burning up.
Here ya go
In order- what I tried with large time gaps between trying something new...
- I tried heat mat on the firewall and floors back in the '80's.
-I put 2 layers of jute backing under my new carpet...
-I put a body lift in
-I ceramic coated the headers
-I put dynamat in
-I wrapped the headers AND exhaust to the mufflers behind the frt seats.
- When I did my suspension build in '17 I put alum sheets spaced 1/2" off the firewall and the floor. This ONE change did more than ALL the others combined... almost unbelievable difference.
Multiple readings on the console and passenger floor...temps were from 148- 149 deg F on a 100 deg day prior to installing the alum spacers after a 10 to 30 minute drive.
After putting alum sheets on the firewall from the top of the heads down and underneath the floor pans to behind the seats -- the console and floor pan temps dropped to 102 deg F on a 100 deg F day after driving around for 40 minutes... this is with the dual mufflers mounted directly under the seats.
Put all the liners and coatings and dynomat and carpet ya want on...but the best thing is to have a heat shield barrier with a small air gap.
My buddy did this to his Bronco in the mid '80's and I just didn't want to go thru the hassle of trying it...well, I could have saved myself 30 yrs of broiling to death !!!
Hope this helps someone!
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