L31 Extreme Budget Build

Keeper · May 8, 2024

L31MaxExpress said:
For anybody considering purchasing from ACC do not waste your time. Opened up the vinyl flooring kit that is supposed to be a custom fit product. The jute material does not even come close to being correct and nothing is molded at all. I will call them tomorrow but their fitment is absolutely laughibly bad. They might as well have sent a kit for a Ford Econoline or some other such vehicle the fitment is so poor.

I'll second that. I got that vinyl flooring from them for a suburban. Initially tried working with it last fall after temps had dropped into the 60's and gave up within an hour. I'm still waiting until temps are in the 90's so I can lay it out in the sun and try to bake it into some kind of a pliable material that I can work with. It will probably get used for other projects first though as it does seem be a really tough material, and I am on the verge of parting out that suburban anyway.

L31MaxExpress · Friday at 2:59 AM

Covering the inner door skins on the rear doors with about 85% coverage or so with that butyl sound deadner insulation material made a dramatic difference. Will definitely be using it again in future projects. Greatly reduces the sheet metal rattling common with GMs. I was pounding on them fairly firmly with a closed fist. Only took about an hour to cover the 4 doors I have done thus far. Front doors will get the same treatment. I will use the same material on the 97 when I swap out the speakers in the front and rear doors in the future.

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L31MaxExpress · 2024-05-19T00:51:26-0400

Tomorrow I will have this down to a nearly empty shell and start laying in the flooring. Floor, then wiring, followed by walls, then last the headlining. This one will be somewhat spartan inside, utility and budget over luxury, lol. I have two bedrooms worth of the laminate flooring I sat in the rear of the van that was essentially new and we pulled up when my mom bought the house we remodeled. Will give a nice flat floor that is easy to clean and fairly well insulated. The end goal is something that can be camped in, still haul cargo and be driven comfortably across the country if desired.

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Scooterwrench · 2024-05-19T08:10:15-0400

What? No crushed velvet? You gonna cut the holes for the teardrop portholes?

Fender flares,side pipes and Crager SS's are next.

Moofus02 · 2024-05-19T10:38:22-0400

Love those vans. I've had a bunch. One sbc q jet th400 regular wb 2 tbi 5.7 4l80 extended wb and a 98 5.7 vortec 4l80 extended. All g30's

Spareparts · 2024-05-19T23:00:27-0400

I want to sound deaden my doors but when Coachman? made my van they sprayed this s*it in them. Hope yours did not have that sound amplifying stuff cuz getting it out is a real pita.

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L31MaxExpress · 2024-05-20T00:27:01-0400

Spareparts said:
I want to sound deaden my doors but when Coachman? made my van they sprayed this s*it in them. Hope yours did not have that sound amplifying stuff cuz getting it out is a real pita.

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None of mine have. The 87 did have a rubberized undercoating heavily applied in a lot of places. Lots of places drilled, sprayed and plugged with plastic caps.

On a side note that looks like a similar spray foam to what GM sprayed the 73-78 GMC Motorhomes with.

The walls of this 87 were filled with loose fiberglass insulation. I still feel itchy from removing it all. As of this afternoon the only thing left inside is the dashboard and the shoddy conversion company added wiring.

Oh I also took a dry shower of the headlining material foam stuff that backs a typical headliner. Stuff gets the consistency of sand when it turns to mush.

Could be worse, there were 60s and 70s cars bulletproofed with actual concrete in the doors. I saw a Cadillac in the wrecking yard that had that treatment once.

Erik the Awful · 2024-05-20T08:24:35-0400

When I was wrenching on the race car two weeks ago, I got a bunch of fiberglass in my forearm from the header wrap. One of my teammates worked with fiberglass insulation when he was in college, and he said to put a wet bar of soap in a pair of pantyhose and rub it over your arm. We didn't have pantyhose handy, so I just suffered.

Scooterwrench · 2024-05-20T09:17:00-0400

I had to help repair the boats when I was a kid and swore I would never touch fiberglass again so what did I do?,went to work for Hunter Marine building high end sailboats. Yeah,that lasted about six weeks!

Scooterwrench · 2024-05-20T09:18:56-0400

L31MaxExpress said:
Tomorrow I will have this down to a nearly empty shell and start laying in the flooring. Floor, then wiring, followed by walls, then last the headlining. This one will be somewhat spartan inside, utility and budget over luxury, lol. I have two bedrooms worth of the laminate flooring I sat in the rear of the van that was essentially new and we pulled up when my mom bought the house we remodeled. Will give a nice flat floor that is easy to clean and fairly well insulated. The end goal is something that can be camped in, still haul cargo and be driven comfortably across the country if desired.

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Are you gonna give it a paint job or are you like me? The outside is for everyone else.

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