Has anyone used aluminium chequer plate in their footwells?

Did Snetterton yesterday, and the inside of the car gets extremely hot, and most of this is coming from the driver's footwell where (now all the deadening has been removed) is really does get extremely hot.

Not only that, I still have a few Paul Walker-style manifold breaches in the floor where the tar crap has been removed and the plastic plugs have gone missing.

I reckon best bet is to get some aluminium chequer plate stuff that I can shape to where I need it - it'll help keep out the heat, plug the holes and provide some grip. So, two questions:

1) There are various thicknesses, thinnest seems to be 1.5mm. Does anyone know if that's thin enough to bend to shape? Obviously want it to be as light as possible as well.

2) Does anyone know of someone who does it cheap other than eBay? It's the kind of thing I can imagine is marked up considerably and can probably be found at some tiny company in some nowhere industrial estate for no money

Cheers in advance people.

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i've got a footwell template here for the cnc machining company next door. they were going to knock me up a couple of textured sheets in satin black for my footwells. good call for reminding me to chase them up

hope this helps

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It will be a pain in the arse to bend into shape imo

Also how will you secure it?

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I was planning on rivetting it, simplest way I can think of and makes for easy removal.

As for neatness I'm not that fussed, as long as it's about right and provides some protection I'm not all that fussed.

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tigerseal but check heating temps, don't want it working loose under heat

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How about this?

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Chris
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I know you would rather buy the sheet and make it, but if it stays at £25, will probably be worth it

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Chris
1999 China Gti6 Supercharged [Fun car] >>Project Thread<<
2000 Bianca 306 Diesel [Work runabout]

Better off bonding it down, or at least a bead of adhesive and then rivet it down, otherwise you'll probably find the rivets come loose as it settles in from the bends/heat/vibration.
Then it'll do your tit's in 'cause it'll rattle.

You'd be better off with thinner stainless steel rather than thick ally plate.

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Harder wearing, easier to bond in, being thinner it should be easier to bend, and it has a lot less heat transfer than ally

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Have you thought of just getting some better heat reflective material in the exhaust tunnel? I found most of my heat came from the tunnel anyway so sheeting in the footwells is'nt going to help that much. A load of exhaust wrap and a good polish up of the existing heatshields would be much more effective. If you need a little extra grip, use skateboard grip tape cut in strips in the footwells, great on slippy drilled metal pedals too incidentally.

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i have a 3metre x 600mm length of griptae i bought off a lad on one of the 106 owners clubs after seeing it in the footwell of his car a couple of years ago. still not fitted it!

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