This question is for the NJ car. It's unrestored. However I have been trying to reverse "improvements" prior owners have done to the car. Someone thought it would be a good ................. I saw an older post saying that the Rust-Oleum Undercoating spray product worked well. I know with the engine in the car this will not be an easy job and, if I do it, will require a lot of masking to keep the spray off of everything but the firewall.
That's for replying back. So we have a Dec 65 NJ car to focus on. What many in the same situation, yes have done this on other people's car when they could not bring themselves to do it, is to take some sheets of aluminum foil and run it down between the top of the transmission and the back of the engine and the firewall. Of you push and manipulate the product it was form it's self to the shape pretty well. You can take separate sheets and fold the edges together to create larger sheets. Product will tear and shread if your not careful but just add another sheet over or under the torn area.
Just focus on the area at the bottom of the firewall to catch any misdirected spray and if you want you can lay a sheet and fold it over and press it along the firewall to cowl pinch weld. to protect that area. You don't want it around the face of the firewall or side panels (inner fender panels) where some overspray might get blocked and produce a visible line in the spray - giving your short cut away.
have you found or do you have pictures of what the product that they used at NJ looks like or do you need additional ones?
Hope I've explained that well enough
Product number please?
They keep changing product lines, numbers and so on. Have not used it on a car for this purpose yet though have suggested the possibility based on the look for years. In spray outs it can look very convincing.
Challenge so far has been to figure out how to take away the tackiness once in place. Have not been able to experiment yet but though dusting it with powdered graphite or just dust might work. Since it originally was an adhesive it likely was tacky for a while and the surface gathered dust from the plant and from the parking lot prior to the cars being shipped. It is often has a brown tint to the product. This light spider web looking product was typically applied and had this some look. There are some abnormal where the product was put on very heavy but you rarely see those examples during 65-67 at San Jose
Must mention that IMHO this would be closer for San Jose 65-67 only not for the other two plants that year.
One of the two product numbers would be #38808
Thing we've gotten off of the threads focus though
