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MrB

Member Since: 30 Jan 2014
Location: Buckinghamshire
Posts: 79

Silver 90 TD5 Build: Re-envisioning a great

Hi Ladies and Gents,

Been a while coming, but I finally have got around to clawing through the pics of our TD5 build.

Our search initially began way back when we arrived at the famed James French garage in Oxfordshire. A close friend bought a stunning silver Puma cabrio from them weeks before and it seemed like a great place to start.

We plumped for a lovely, unmolested, silver TD5 county station wagon, with only 54K on it. Naturally we paid a premium but it was the cleanest vehicle we had found to date.

Anyhow, without further ado here's our little gem pre build.

Nath

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24th Jun 2014 7:08pm

MrB

Member Since: 30 Jan 2014
Location: Buckinghamshire
Posts: 79

This was a project that was influenced between my brother and I so we both had ideas of how we could re-envision a Defender. Naturally the forum was a mixing pot of amazing ideas and resources.

The one definitive idea we both shared though was the want to stay true to the Defender and wider Land Rover range styling. So as I was crazily anxious of doing anything without a plan we hit Photoshop!

So we initially were split on a route and were torn between evolving the overall look of a Defender, or trying to mix it up slightly with some DNA of the 'floating roof' design. See our initial thoughts below;

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24th Jun 2014 7:23pm

MrB

Member Since: 30 Jan 2014
Location: Buckinghamshire
Posts: 79

Aside from the quandary regarding the design style and route to progress down, the most apparent thing we felt needed addressing was discovered on our journey back from James French.

Previous to this I had owned a W460 Gelandewagen and my brother's pride and joy is a somewhat modified Disco 1 and to say our new Defender was a little noisy in comparison, would be an understatement. So sound deadening of sorts was going to be our first port of call.

So the interior strip out began... not a quick job due to some kind of adhesive under all the carpeting, but if a job is worth doing and all that...

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24th Jun 2014 7:35pm

MrB

Member Since: 30 Jan 2014
Location: Buckinghamshire
Posts: 79

This was the beginning of an obsession...

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24th Jun 2014 7:40pm

MrB

Member Since: 30 Jan 2014
Location: Buckinghamshire
Posts: 79

And so it continued...

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24th Jun 2014 7:55pm

MrB

Member Since: 30 Jan 2014
Location: Buckinghamshire
Posts: 79

And continued...

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It must be said this is not the job for someone with OCD as getting the logos all straight became a bit of a crazed obsession!! :roll laugh:

24th Jun 2014 8:02pm

MrB

Member Since: 30 Jan 2014
Location: Buckinghamshire
Posts: 79

Almost there with the tin foil... just shy of a jacket potato baking kitchen!

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24th Jun 2014 8:09pm

MrB

Member Since: 30 Jan 2014
Location: Buckinghamshire
Posts: 79

In all seriousness, sound deadening is a time consuming process and one that you want to only do the once.

However the difference was amazing. Panels were solid to touch, the vehicle felt structurally more sound (which it should do with half a ton of bitumen and tin foil being added!! Lol) and acoustically it was so much quieter. So a job well done for sure.

...but we weren't finished just yet!

24th Jun 2014 8:13pm

david mitchell

Member Since: 01 Jul 2012
Location: Meath
Posts: 418

Great looking defender.

24th Jun 2014 8:18pm

MrB

Member Since: 30 Jan 2014
Location: Buckinghamshire
Posts: 79

I'd spent serious and unhealthy amounts of time understanding the science of sound deadening and elected to go the whole hog, so continued with three more stages.

Next came another Dynamat product... Dynaliner. Effectively a very closed cell adhesive foam.

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24th Jun 2014 8:21pm

MrB

Member Since: 30 Jan 2014
Location: Buckinghamshire
Posts: 79

david mitchell wrote:
Great looking defender.

Thanks Dave!

24th Jun 2014 8:22pm

mk1collector

Member Since: 17 Sep 2009
Location: West Yorkshire
Posts: 6769

Top work

I haven't got round to doing my roof yet but all the lower half is done

24th Jun 2014 8:28pm

MrB

Member Since: 30 Jan 2014
Location: Buckinghamshire
Posts: 79

Then the third stage came in the form of a thick, acoustic cotton – effectively a loose weave cotton material of substantial thickness. Unfortunately we didn't get too many pics of this material, but you can see it being applied to a few panels (light grey material). This was added onto the reverse of all interior panelling and across the roof.

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24th Jun 2014 8:28pm

g-mack

Member Since: 07 Jan 2014
Location: northumberland
Posts: 1967

ooh i do love a good sound proofing session

My 109 thread

my youtube channel

24th Jun 2014 8:35pm

MrB

Member Since: 30 Jan 2014
Location: Buckinghamshire
Posts: 79

Then came the rubber matting which worked to remove transmission and general resonance from the vehicle. Unfortunately we had to do this in a fairly muddy locale so it wasn't super easy to keep clean. We also started an extensive carpeting exercise too throughout the vehicle.

For the rubber matting we used Land Rover's Defender rear load matt (which was excellent value) and the Wright Offroad's acoustic front matt system.

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24th Jun 2014 8:51pm

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