Originally Posted by The Mighty Quinn (Post 2836029)

I noticed when trawling through a scrapped PPD car that there was an additional sound deadening mat stuck along the leading edge of the boot floor (not fitted in mine). The mat was backed with a loose, multi-coloured material and was stuck in place with two sections of black, sticky-back foam (near the rear seat-back). The part looked OEM and appears to resemble the smaller of the two sound mats on the OEM parts schematics (item 11 here):
https://allbrit.de/UNI.cfm?PAGE=741029&SPRACHE=EN

Would this be the parcel shelf insulation that folks have often talked about having been deleted from the later cars? My car is late 2003 and has the insulation in the parcel shelf itself :shrug: But this mat is located directly below the parcel shelf on the boot floor.. :cool:

My OEM under-seat sound panel seems to have an additional section that extends out into the boot floor where the separate mat was fitted in the PPD car. Maybe there was a change mid-production to combine the two separate mats into one?
I've tucked the additional (PPD?) mat up under the extended section of my OEM mat for now.

Not a biggie by any means, but information (particularly from PPD owners) welcome :)


Cheers,
Karl.

Originally Posted by p2roverman (Post 2964230)

Just noticed on my Cowley car the insulation panel on the front of the plenum chamber is in three pieces. On my 51 reg car it is in one pice; I had the cut it to remove the servo. Was this a Project Drive modification?


Also, I note there is a clamp securing the lower end of the shannon tube, my Y reg car did not have this.


Incidently the trumpet shaped steel inlet pipe for the shannon tube is missing on my Cowley KV6 should anyonr breaking a car be able to supply one with fittings. (I can't find it illustrated on Rimmers' site, not that it's likely they would have it).

Originally Posted by Edward Huggins (Post 2964517)

I tried to find this in Reebs fantastic illustrated summary, but what about the former "Velveteen" soft-feel finish to the inside door body surround that was replaced with a very standard black grained rubber surround. Was this post Cowley build or another victim of "Drive"?

Originally Posted by Matt_75 (Post 2964524)

According to Rimmers, the change-over was 2004 (SN 304111), so Project Drive. My two Longbridge cars (2002 and 2003) both have the flocked/velveteen type.