Porsche 356 Gas Tank Sound Insulation Pad - Take 2 Success?

My last attempt to install this tank mat was a complete fail. This time I took a more conservative approach and listened to many of your ideas. How did I do? My email can be found in the about tab. Reach out if you want to buy this material and I'll put you in contact with Pete.
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[@troypender3282]

Well done mate, some times its the simple things👍

[@GarageTimeAutoResto]

Thanks! 👍 I'm sure it was simple at the factory. Would love to have a time machine to see how they did it originally!

[@roundtailrestoration]

Brilliant, Tom. Summer in December!

[@GarageTimeAutoResto]

Yep, when there's a will there's a way!

[@DoubleRRestorations]

Great idea Tom. Turned out very nice!

[@GarageTimeAutoResto]

Thanks Russ!

[@jeffharrison5265]

Great job. I have to admit I wouldn't have thought of making an oven.

[@GarageTimeAutoResto]

Especially a disposable oven, ha ha.
I remember making a solar oven to cook a pizza at one of the boys cub scout camps. Maybe that where the idea came from?

[@jimsutherland6596]

Excellent job. How about just putting the heat gun into the filler neck, to heat the tank from the inside?

[@GarageTimeAutoResto]

Thanks! You have a great idea. Not sure it would get hot enough without the box around it though.
My way pushed air through the sender hole and out the filler neck, so the air did heat the entire tank.
Your idea of putting the heat gun in the filler neck would mean one less hole in the box! Not a bad idea!
I feel that my oven was barely hot enough.

[@openhighwayproductions]

Quite ingenious. I, most likely, would have set the tank outside on a warm and sunny day hoping for a similar result, lol.

[@GarageTimeAutoResto]

That's what I should have done, but no I HAD to redeem myself!

[@Zincaloom]

Came out great. I am sure you did a much better job than the factory. I would not worry about those circular depressions. It is going to get hot in the trunk. I bet they will just slowly work their way in there over time anyway.

[@GarageTimeAutoResto]

Thanks! I was tempted to poke a hole to expel the air than, I thought "what am I doing"? Way over thinking it, ha ha. And the last thing I needed was an asphalt volcano!

[@2manycatsforadime]

Very good work but a couple of questions. The home depot piece is only the adhesive? Where did the textured piece come from? I am wondering if a hairdryer could be used to heat the tank interior using a flex hose into the hole in the top of the tank. That maybe would help while heating the oven with the larger heat gun. No matter though the job turned out excellent. I made engine compartment insulation from tarpaper in a similar way. My 64 had smooth insulation so a texture then was not needed. I used a heat gun to form the pieces into place. Worked very well. I used the old style carpet backing jute instead of sourcing horsehair.

[@GarageTimeAutoResto]

Thanks Bob,. The home Depot material is reflective foam that the oven box was made from.
The textured tar paper is from a specialty 356 guy who has tooling to put that waffle pattern in the tar paper. It comes with the tar on the back side as well.

[@2manycatsforadime]

@@GarageTimeAutoResto I should have listened closely.

[@GarageTimeAutoResto]

Ha ha, no worries. Email me if you want the source for the tank pad

[@brianbarbato9843]

Tom good Job! My 1961 T5B coupe needs this material in the engine compartment and frunk. Pete Albrecht? Can you share your source for this material? The stuff you used on the C in your videos wasn't anywhere on my car that I remember...
Thanks

[@GarageTimeAutoResto]

Thanks, my car is a karmann which used very different sound insulation. Peter does make the Reutter stuff. It's more of the waffle pattern material like the gas tank.

[@peterkillefer9720]

@@GarageTimeAutoResto Tom, I'm a recent subscriber to your site. I am just starting my own 1964 356C restoration project and find your site instructively invaluable. I am replacing my gas tank with a new one and would love to replace the sound deadening material with what you used instead of the tarpaper-like material usually found on the common parts sites. Would you be willing to share the contact data for Pete with me so I might access his products for both the fuel tank and the engine compartment and trunk? Thanks so much.

[@GarageTimeAutoResto]

Thank you! And welcome here. Please email me for Peter's info.
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[@brianbarbato9843]

I talked to Stoddard today and their kit for my car doesn't have that "waffle like" texture

[@GarageTimeAutoResto]

I know the Stoddard stuff isn't as authentic. And it doesn't have the asphalt backing which does most of the sound deadening.
Email me if you want Peter's phone number. [e-mail]